The Weekly Watch - Open Thread
It's been a pleasure to escape the so called news for a month. But I'm back for the Sunday morning "Meet the Mess". This project began in disgust of the mainstream media...a search for meaningful news. What I found is no matter what there is bias in the news. What follows is my bias...the things that I and other contributors see as important. Please add your thoughts about the news...or anything else that is on your mind.
The Leaks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTTtQ2OZB48 (16.5 min) Democracy Now
We speak to Lee Fang of The Intercept. On Friday, WikiLeaks began releasing thousands of John Podesta’s emails, including excerpts of Hillary Clinton’s paid remarks to Wall Street firms. The emails showed Clinton’s closed-door remarks were starkly at odds with many of her public positions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05M_YV1OR48 (12 min) The Real News
The Intercept's Zaid Jilani discusses the important revelations in the leaks of Clinton's Wall Street speeches, John Podesta's emails, and internal Democratic Party memos
Here's a direct link to their article: https://theintercept.com/2016/10/11/warren-goldman-dccc/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4apv82DFYHM (15 min)
Jimmy Dore explores the Podesta wikileaks
The Election
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdnp29K8db8 (30 min) Global Empire from telesur
Tariq Ali considers the US election campaign and asks, is Trump is any worse than Clinton? Is this a case of electing the lesser of two evils, or is there another option?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwV4wfTZJaY (15 min) The Real News
Veteran journalist Chris Hedge says the war on terror has replaced the war on drugs. Though Clinton’s rhetoric on Muslims is more palatable, she has been an enthusiastic supporter of 'bombing our way to peace' in the Middle East.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CXBZMH23Ro (26 min) Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp interviews Chris Hedges who explains just how dangerous it is for leftists to vote for Hillary Clinton, even with the specter of Donald Trump looming in the background.
Jill Stein on Democracy Now... We play excerpts from the Hillary Clinton-Donald Trump debate and expand the debate by giving Green Party nominee Jill Stein a chance to respond to the same questions posed to Trump and Clinton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWZJD96RqF0 (22 min) part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBXXnPdFDjM (14 min) part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QItVpNq-NgM (9 min) part 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHOYfx_tvIA (18 min) part 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WAdbsWa5x0 (19 min) part 5
The Protests
Against big oil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqanmctAoLs (24 min) Empire files interviews Dennis Banks
A historic gathering is taking place against the Dakota Access pipeline at Standing Rock. Thousands of people, and around 300 Native nations, have gathered to stop Big Oil’s pipeline, which threatens sacred Native grounds and the environment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQsToYhOfXE (13 min) Democracy Now
Ten climate activists were arrested Tuesday for attempting to shut down all tar sands oil coming into the United States from Canada by manually turning off pipelines in Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota and Washington state. The group, which calls itself Climate Direct Action, includes five activists and five other supporters and videographers.
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/10/12/impacted-communities-take-fi...
Activists from oil-impacted communities around the country are descending on Energy Transfer Partners' corporate offices in Houston, Texas, to protest the company's Dakota Access Pipeline and other controversial pipeline projects.
For better schools
http://educationopportunitynetwork.org/public-school-activists-stage-mas...
Last week there was a massive outpouring at over 2,000 schools in over 200 cities where an estimated 100,000-plus people called for attention to widespread problems in public schools and demanded new policy directions that prioritize quality education for all students.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COLfXDTwL3w (1 min) Telesur
Temer's 20-year assault on public education won't go down without a fight! Thousands of Brazilians students have occupied high schools across the country, denouncing the coup government and its neoliberal education reforms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ8MyLgr3_4 (5.5 min) The Real News
Jacobin’s Micah Uetricht explains why the concessions won by the Chicago teachers are credit to its militant leadership and why the union’s democratic nature might spur some teachers to reject the deal.
Against slavery in prisons...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkUjaxwRRrw (3 min) RT
Prison protests continue. The Justice Department has announced that it will launch an investigation into violence, rape and overcrowding at Alabama state prisons for men. The investigation comes weeks after the start of a nationwide prison protest that has struggled to gain mainstream media attention.
https://theintercept.com/2016/10/12/report-every-25-seconds-cops-arrest-...
The failure of the war on drugs has led to the success of for profit prisons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JOTuQ2dnuM (24 min) RT On Contact
On this week’s episode of On Contact, Chris Hedges discusses the incarceration of America’s mentally ill with George Mallinckrodt, psychotherapist and author of Getting Away with Murder
https://theintercept.com/2016/10/12/do-not-resist-the-police-militarizat... New documentary looks at the militarization of our police.
Film site: http://www.donotresistfilm.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h82zFXXkvS8 (3 min) RT
A Washington DC woman was arrested and charged with an open container violation, but they were dropped after body camera footage was released. The case highlights the importance of bodycams in criminal cases, especially those wherein the alleged criminal is actually innocent.
For peace...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuQLZWDtcBQ (1 min) Telesur
Hundreds of Colombians have occupied Bogota's main square to demand peace
Around the World
BRAZIL
Foreign investors now shy about investing in Brazil.
http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/business/2016/10/1822430-o...
VENEZUELA
President Nicolas Maduro issued the government's 2017 budget by decree on Friday (Oct 14), bypassing the opposition-held legislature.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/bypassing-congress-maduro-decr...
MYANMAR
Towns and villages across northern Rakhine state were deserted on Friday (Oct 14), as terrified residents fled a deadly military crackdown on foot and by air, fearing Myanmar's restive western state could once again be ripped apart by violence.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/terrified-residents-flee-north...
PAKISTAN
Pakistan's top court on Thursday adjourned the appeals hearing for a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy who has been on death row since 2010, as dozens of radical Islamists rallied in two major cities demanding her execution.
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/pakistan/2016/10/15/481097/Pakistan-adj...
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
The Central African Republic's new government is struggling to bring an end to three years of war and sectarian violence, its authority undermined by continuing attacks on civilians by the rival mainly Muslim Séléka and Christian anti-Balaka militias.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201610140934.html
RWANDA
The first medical supply of remotely piloted aircraft, popularly known as drones, will be launched in Rwanda today. The pioneer project, in Muhanga District in southern Rwanda, will see drones used in delivery of much needed supplies to ensure efficiency and timeliness.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201610140034.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSE9wKUAMS8 (4 min) Democracy Now
In 2010, former President Bill Clinton publicly apologized for forcing Haiti to drop tariffs on imported subsidized U.S. rice during his time in office. It wiped out rice farming, seriously damaging Haiti’s ability to be self-sufficient. "It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has not worked. It was a mistake," Clinton said in 2010.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qHxM6FGCfY (1 min) Telesur
The amount of money the U.S. has spent on its wars in the Middle East is so high, it's more than the GDP of 31 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyTAxQCXuz0 (9.5 min)
The United States Navy fired missiles at sites in Yemen, continuing America's long tradition of perpetual wars for profit. Jimmy Dore breaks it down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FeC-_10BTs (5 min) Democracy Now
Documents obtained by Reuters show the U.S. government is concerned it could be implicated in potential war crimes in Yemen because of its support for a Saudi-led coalition air campaign.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnsLJqh3tXU (12.5 min) Democracy Now
On Sunday, thousands of Yemenis gathered at the United Nations building in Sana’a calling for an international investigation into the U.S-backed Saudi assault on a funeral hall. The attack was carried out with warplanes and munitions sold to the Saudi-led coalition by the United States. The U.S. Air Force continues to provide midair refueling to Saudi warplanes.
The Economy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExhK15D8XJg (12.5 min)
Richard Wolff asks is there an alternative to capitalism?
The Environment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGspmmYpw7E (11 min) The Real News
The airline industry’s emissions are as large as Germany’s and threaten the globe from meeting targets set at COP21, says Vera Paradee of the Climate Law Institute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK5MJf0QAqA (12 min)
Many scientists are saying climate change has intensified Hurricane Matthew because warmer ocean waters help create stronger hurricanes. Matthew is already the longest-lived Category 4 or 5 hurricane in the Eastern Caribbean on record. To talk more about Hurricane Matthew and climate change, we speak to Guardian journalist Oliver Milman and Michael Mann, a distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Penn State University.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xIx-LHG8Wc Take a few moments and watch the Earth from space.
NASA Live feed : Earth from space - seen from the Nasa ISS live stream on the International Space Station .
Please add to the comments stories that speak to you!
Comments
The 99% needs Wikileaks. Transparency and accountability, folks.
Anti Wikileaks = anti whistleblower = anti accountability = authoritarian = objectively elitist, corporatist, fascist.
I give up, we’re all just Hill’s and Podesta’s pawns.
...but ...but... RUSSIA!
That ploy worked well the first time with the DNC leaks. Just use it again. Sadly the MSM plays right along and the content is ignored.
I totally agree, lotlizard, we need wikileaks. Isn't it sad you can trust wikileaks more than the NYT, Washington Post, cable news, and so on. A rare oasis in the honest media desert!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Some of us have been waiting Wikileaks
having given up on NYT, WaPo and the rest months ago. Another release this morning.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Wow, nice roundup. I'll come back and watch later over
breakfast (I haven't been to bed yet!).
But I was reading Over There and found this surprisingly coherent: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/10/15/1582960/--The-Election-Is-Not-R...
My apologies for the link to TOP, but the author put some work in to make it much more readable there than the original series of tweets on Twitter.
And I really would like someone here knowledgeable about the potential rigging to respond. No matter how you think it was done, they seem to explain that there are safeguards so it can't happen.
Of course it's possible they're all establishment tools. But their arguments all seem very plausible to me. What do you think, those of you who will still drop in to TOP?
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Greg Palast
...is traveling with his new movie...The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Here's the trailer (3 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP46nJWH7OE
After screenings he is taking questions. Here's a 17 min clip of that...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCFYtKZeRTY
He's doing good work on election fraud. Haven't read the TOP piece but I think you'll enjoy Greg's take.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Fraction Magic and Rigging Elections
The linked diary ignores Black Box Voting.
http://blackboxvoting.org/fraction-magic-part-6/
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
Good Morning Meteor Man
I woke up to the fraud with the Bush-Gore election. I think it is getting worse. We had a 14 point exit poll discrepancy in the Alabama democratic primary.
You folks in California had a joke of an election for your primary. Democracy seems a distant dream away from our current oligarchy.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good Morning Lookout
What amazed me about the linked diary is that it implicitly denied any election had ever been hacked. We know for a stone cold fact that Florida and Ohio were rigged. We know for a stone cold fact that Democratic primaries were hacked because Obama, Video and Hillary have all blamed Russia.
While googling "cyberwar" I ran across this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Konopka
Which led to this:
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/creativity...
We should be far more concerned about white supremacist terrorists than Muslim terrorists.
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
I've not read the piece at TOP
...but there is no doubt the machines can and have been hacked. There is a youtube piece of a couple of fellows from Cornell that hack and flip a machine in a couple of minutes. They were certain they had the Ohio machines hacked in 2008, and did skew them in 2004 to defeat Kerry.
Election fraud is real (as opposed to voter fraud).
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
You Aren't Missing A Thing
The TOP piece is trash. I didn't even bother to click on comments.
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
teacher shortage
Just got a piece this morning:
We are currently experiencing a 372,000 job shortfall in public education. The costs of a significant teacher gap are measurable: larger class sizes, fewer teacher aides, fewer extracurricular activities, and changes to the curricula. Shortsighted austerity measures at all levels of government hit children in today’s classrooms.
http://www.epi.org/publication/teacher-employment-and-the-number-of-jobs...
A mind is a terrible thing to waste (money on).
Another favorite line...
Who knows if we can solve the problems of education by throwing money at it? We've never tried!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Another perspective: It's a planned teacher shortage as well
as a shortage of teaching materials. I think it's meant to starve public education and set up the students to fail the rigged and pricey tests so that the capitalists can declare "another failed school" and have it "Obama'd" out of existence in favor of a for-profit charter school using ill trained and poorly paid new hires as teachers.
Universal free public education is an American success story. To the neoliberals, it's a pool of public money they can get their lunch hooks on, suck it dry, and leave letting the community to cope with what's left.
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
In Georgia there is a constitutional amendment on
the ballot this November to allow the state to seize "failing schools". They are selling the amendment by saying that it would increase local control. The governor stars in several commercials saying how important this is for the children. The propaganda is over the top, appealing to emotion, fear mainly. They are proposing seizing the schools, not more money for schools.
Yeah, that'll work. /s
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
Charter schools and for-profit colleges have a consistent record
The schools deliver substandard education for the students and hefty profits for the corporations. So living in a country where a person's worth is his or her net worth, privatization is an economic success. Two major for-profit multi-state "colleges" have failed in the past 3 years leaving its students with big debt and nothing to show for their efforts.
It's very sad to see the USA giving up its world class educational system to effing greedheads. Arne Duncan, Bill Gates and a slew of Wall St arbs and corrupted politicians have the upper hand, for now...Wasn't Georgia the state where teachers were jailed for trying to protect the students and schools and their profession from the testing lunacy?
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
What the teachers did was what I suspect has been done in
other school districts across the country--they altered the scores. Family wealth is the greatest determiner of student success. Since the teachers couldn't alter their students' economic circumstances, they altered the scores to meet mandated achievement benchmarks.
No other school system has done this to their teachers.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
ALEC owned Alabama beat you to it...
The red states are acting quickly to pass the corporate agenda. In Alabama, students in the lowest performing 10% of schools can pull out their share of tax dollars to attend the school of their choice. No bottom performance threshold, just the lowest 10%...thereby robbing the schools most in need of funds. A recipe for failure.
For years the strategy has been to cut funding and complain about poor service - the successful plan to destroy government programs. Schools are a big ticket item. Short term profit for long term failure...it's the American (corporate) way.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Congrats, Lookout! Glad that you and DK were
able to work out getting you an OT slot. Thanks for the excellent job you do compiling news links and excerpts.
Question: Now that The Weekly Watch is an official OT, is it appropriate for members to add their links in their comments, instead of forwarding them to you in a PM?
Hey, I agree about the destruction of public schools in red states. IMO, though, the 'O' Administration is responsible for many of the most egregious policies. After the latest Education Bill was passed (last year, IIRC), I posted a piece about the fact that 'dedicated' funding for Charter Schools was increased by one-third. Since corporatists in both parties are in favor of destroying public education, I have no idea what the citizenry can do to fight this trend. The reauthorized Ed Bill was negotiated by Alexander (who's very much in sync with FSC and other neoliberal Dems in ideology), and Patty Murray (of Murray-Ryan fame, who colluded to cut federal employee retirement benefits, etc., during earlier budget negotiations).
Cleverly, this topic is almost never even broached for public discussion--during political campaigns, or otherwise. And, when Dems discuss it, they mostly lie about their policies, as do so-called progressive (Dem) Ed advocacy organizations.
Ironically, there may be one thing that DT is doing that could be supported by the progressive Community. That is--'calling out the corruption of the MSM.' I'm amused by the desperate attempts of the MSM to counter him. Frankly, I wish DT would do nothing but call them out for the next three weeks, and forget trying to counter FSC. Clearly, the system is rigged, and he's wasting his breath trying to take her on. (OTOH, I suppose that his attacks may be delegitimizing her, and I'm not opposed to that, if it will help defeat her toxic neoliberal agenda. Unless, or until, we throw out neoliberals, 'gridlock' is our friend, IMO. Having said that, my entire Family will be so happy when this Kabuki Theater finally ends, regardless of the outcome.)
Have a great rest of your weekend!
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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
This beats Alabama. The state takes the whole school. The
property and school funding goes to whoever takes over, most likely a private corporation or possibly an NGO, neither responsible to taxpayers who foot the bill.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
Yes, it was planned and it is sad . . .
I basically retired from teaching in 2011. Hadn't intended to retire that soon, but the jobs for my particular teaching areas totally went away.
In 2014, my former school district called me the week before school was to start and asked me if I was willing to come back to work. I thought I was going to be teaching high end multimedia like before, but it turned out to be a business course (for which I was not certified) so I told them I would help out until they found someone else.
Interesting observations.
The superintendent tried pretty hard to make me stay, but I had sick people in my family I needed to care for. I finally had to say, "today is my last day. Don't care if you try to yank my certificate, I have no choice." They were pretty desperate.
It's funny . . . in Texas when you drive down the freeway, occasionally you will see billboards that say "Texas Schools are Great!" Sure, there are great teachers, and great students, and great administrators. But you can only pull a rubber band so far before it snaps.
We took our kids out of public school. Our son started "homeschool" in 6th grade. He is 15 now and has been doing Khan Academy classes. The school didn't have the know-how or a big enough staff to accommodate his dyslexia. Our daughter left school her sophomore year. That was more a matter of the school not having much of a fine arts program. Small rural Texas schools mostly offer the 4 basics + Ag. She got her GED and studies art and music in college. She is 17.
My husband and I are both retired educators. Most parents couldn't even think about providing alternative education. And my kids are missing out on social stuff. Not sure they care about that so much, but still.
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo
Thanks for the story
It's not uncommon. Texas and Alabama have much in common. We're retired teachers too. New hires have a new self funded retirement. Glad I'm at the end rather than the beginning of my career.
All the best!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Marilyn, you left out the religion of God forsaken football inTx
Rural or not, we mustn't forget the all-important religion of Tx football. Ugh, it makes me so disgusted. It takes precedence over everything else in so many districts here. Muti-million dollar stadiums go up while the kids are taught to the test, and teachers are buying materials with their own money. Sigh. . .
Off topic: my son, who will almost positively be valedictorian, is freaked out about having to take the UT Natural Sciences entrance exam for math. The kid has never failed a test in his life, and is freaking out about this one. I told him he's got it in the bag, but he's not buying my maternal pep talk.
He's got it in the bag . . . absolutely . . .
Those tests are only to see if students need to take remedial courses. He will not need to take remedial courses as valedictorian!!! Congrats to him! That means a good scholarship too!
My daughter had to take the TSI tests for math and English. She scored very high, after only having a year and a half of high school. Your son will have no problem.
And yes . . . the god of football sucks. I personally do not understand it.
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo
I tried telling him that
He's just such a perfectionist. I poke at him and call him a slacker when he brings home a report card with a 98 in a class.
Very impressive about your daughter doing so well, and at 17 too! Congratulations to her!
My daughter is on the extended college plan.
She stressed out so badly that she went into a depression while off at Stephen F. Austin. I had to tell her that these are only classes, and failing one or two would not be the end of the world. I also repeated a question asked of my son by his oral surgeon, "What do you call a doctor who made a "C" in medical school? Doctor!" After that, she slowed down, took fewer classes, and is doing much better. She wants to be a museum curator, and I can hardly wait to see her at work!
P.S. Thank you for your service! I am forever grateful for teachers.
Mine stressed out in high school . . .
. . . and is only taking 2 studio art classes and private piano lessons.
I have been thinking of writing a diary on it, but I believe in the extended college plan. Read an article, I think on CommonDreams that was bemoaning the fact that more kids do extended college plans. I completely disagreed with their premise. They were praising the idea of promptly turning out workers for corporations like robots.
The purpose of college and all education is to benefit the student. What is best for the kid?
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo
and every student is different
One plan does not fit all! All the best to yours...
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Ha! I said I wanted to see my daughter at work
I meant I wanted to see her doing something she has worked so hard for, and history is her passion. She still has grad school, and will work at a museum until she gets her Masters.
I think it's smart of your daughter to take fewer classes. She has time to actually absorb the information that way.
I'm with you on students doing what's best for them, not society, or god awful corporations.
I am suffering truth overload now. I am angry and need to vent.
I have driven the Hillarybots away from my FB page, some surprising losses. This site (c99) is a blessing for nonreligious me. Now I will resume giving my little nuggets of Things I Learned. And still am learning, or it fits my biases.
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We just shooed one (Hillbot) off the front porch.
When I explained that I wasn't going to vote for Her Heinous because of her "no-fly-zone" in Syria, she started to explain to me that a "no-fly-zone" was a move for peace.
She didn't know that I had participated in one.
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Barring revolt, yet another reason Hillary’s got this in the bag
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Clinton and Climate
From the recent leaks:
Clinton said at the meeting, according to transcripts. “My view is, I want to defend natural gas. I want to defend repairing and building the pipelines we need to fuel our economy. I want to defend fracking under the right circumstances.”
“I’m already at odds with the most organized and wildest” of the environmental movement, Clinton said. “They come to my rallies and they yell at me and, you know, all the rest of it. They say, ‘Will you promise never to take any fossil fuels out of the earth ever again?’ No. I won't promise that. Get a life, you know.”
No comments about the content just the source...
“The world now knows, beyond the shadow of any doubt, that the hack of the Democratic National Committee was carried out by the Russian government in a clear attempt to interfere with the integrity of our elections. The only remaining question is why Donald Trump continues to make apologies for the Russians,” Podesta said in a statement Friday.
Here's a take from this morning's leaks:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-16/wikileaks-releases-another-1054...
Another day, another data dump.
In a now familiar daily routine, one which forces the Clinton campaign to bring up ever starker sexual scandals involving Trump to provide a media distraction, moments ago Wikileaks released yet another roughly 1,054 emails in Part 9 of its ongoing Podesta Email dump, which brings the total number of released emails to 12,073.
As a reminder among yesterday's releases were the three much anticiapted transcripts from Hillary Clinton's speeches delivered to Goldman Sachs, first profiled here, and which as the WSJ explained "Reveal Hillary Clinton’s Sympathy for Wall Street"
With another 38,000 or so emails left until election day, we expect the emergence of another Trump "sexual assault" accuser to emerge momentarily, just as we predicted yesterday and were proven right not once but twice. After all the public must be distracted from what truly matters.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I fear the ante is being upped to war
Another firing on the destroyer we have to have near Yemen, in bully-stance. My opinion on that. Why is it up to the US to do the policing on the seas? I know the answer. Oil. A modern cuss-word.
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Distraught zookeeper claims: "Trump groped my hippo"
Will this be distraction enough?
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
Impeach Clinton!!!
Why don't we just get that started now?
Actually, how about a letter or petition to stop the war with Russia and Syria?
Is there any doubt that if we paid as much attention and money to ending imperialism and war as we do with these elections, that we could do it?
I'm with you Big Al
...but the media circus drives the profit train the other direction.
I like this effort -
http://worldbeyondwar.org/new-war-forever-war-world-beyond-war/
They offer their book A Global Security System: An Alternative to War for sale or free online at this address:
http://worldbeyondwar.org/alternative/
There is no one answer, but this is a positive step.
I think after Clinton is elected and lets the TPP slip through she will be indicted and/or impeached... and make corporate media lick their lips.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I hate to answer that rhetorical question with a yes, but, well
Yeah. There is a doubt, mainly because the attention & money we've paid to elections haven't done shit, as far as I can see. It could have, if somebody were smart & well-intentioned and brave enough to use elections as a way to organize millions of people for future non-electoral endeavours, but all the people who have tried to do that have either been co-opted, or were ringers from the beginning; if any of them were ever sincere, they were too dumb to set up surrogates to take over for them (and hopefully, surrogates to take over for *them*) once the Big Leader (Dean, Kerry, Obama, or Sanders) got taken down. Anybody who runs a political campaign of any kind, issue-based or electoral, that's headed by one leader (esp a politician) needs to have as a basic assumption the idea that that leader will be taken down, sooner or later, and there must be at least one layer of redundancy, and possibly two, if the effort is to be worth anything.
Some of those people were no doubt working for the PTB from the beginning, one or two might have been sincere until they had enough carrots & sticks brandished in their faces (not interested in fighting about whether it was a carrot or a stick that worked in the end; also not interested in fighting about whether any of them were ever sincere, since it all leaves us in the same place anyway).
So I guess my point is, it doesn't matter how much money or attention we pay to something if we don't have a strategy that deals with the world as it is, and moves us toward the world as we want it to be.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
and as cool as it is for the leader to say |
"It's not about me, it's about all of you," and "not me, us" that hardly suffices for creating persistent political organization.
At the end of the day, it's a couple morsels of truth deployed in a completely useless fashion, actually in a really irritating fashion, because translated into concrete terms, what it's really saying is "Well, I made the speech. On TV. Actually doing anything is up to you." As an activist, that doesn't get me very far forward, and as glad as I was to have the speech made on TV, it's not a hell of a lot of use if I'm neither provided with a greater level of political organization/infrastructure to work with, or at least with a greater number of tools to build same. I'm mostly in the same position I was at the beginning of all this, because all those people who rallied to the speech are now effectively dispersed and demoralized, even more convinced than before that nothing can be done to change anything.
Since it's you I'm talking to, Big Al, I assume I need not waste words on Our Revolution or similar, um, efforts.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Yep, what do we want and how are we going to get it.
That's been the big problem in my view. If we had millions of people working for one thing, or hundreds of thousands for that matter, we could accomplish something. But there is never an agreement on exactly what to work for and how to do it, other than electing politicians. Maybe because that's easy and a revolution isn't.
How 'bout "Impeach Trump or Clinton"? That way
things are covered either way.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
I think that could catch on.
Meanwhile, as the US puts its efforts into global hegemony,
regime changes and installing predatory neo-liberal capitalism as a global economic system regardless of who it must support and ally itself with in the process, BRICS is pledging to try to do some good instead. According to this article: http://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/BRICS-leaders-discuss-how-to-sh..., they have declared an intent to actually fight terrorism and to act against the financing of terrorists and the harboring, arming and supplying of said terrorists. They also committed to having the New Development Bank emphasize infrastructure, technology and renewable energy.
Lastly,they agreed to set up separate research networks for developing agriculture and railways and to crack down on tax evasion, money laundering and corruption.
That's a very big order, and it remains to be seen if they will accomplish, or even attempt very much, but it is a very positive focus and it is good to see them assert a determination to go there. Now we can only watch and hope that they actually do so and don't face too overwhelming opposition and interference from those nations and groups of nations with conflicting goals.
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 --
interesting piece
Terrorism seemed to be high on the agenda as well. The successful corporate coup in Brazil has surprised me... ongoing during the Olympics. Not a single country withdrew or formally objected that I'm aware of.
Well, I'm glad to see the BRICS talking about some good things. Thanks for the link!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
The media told us these fellows were heroes and our salvation
How many times are we going to fall for what the media is selling this season?
What's the number for every time.
That's just disgusting. I don't know why people read or watch the corporate media. I suppose I do read some of it, via links from alternative websites. I go to CNN internet daily to see the headlines, what they're selling, so I know a little, although increasingly that doesn't really matter.
But definitely the television political and news shows should be protested and boycotted, there's no reason to watch them.
I agree, Al,
except that I read MSM print media for two reasons, which are (1) to gather information regarding proposed/pending legislation/policies, (2) for the 'quotes,' especially those of our Washington Elite--lawmakers, President, so-called movers and shakers, etc.
The quotes can be especially useful in exposing some of these folks. Admittedly, it doesn't always do much good. *Sigh*
Also, one reason that we listen to the Sunday political shows, is that pols are sometimes more likely to give a different version of their views/policies--when before a national audience. (As opposed to when being interviewed by a progressive publication, or, at a partisan political rally/function.) One reason some folks didn't realize that Bernie would support FSC (I'm guessing), may have been because they didn't hear what he said to the likes of Chuck and George on the Sunday political shows, and/or didn't read MSM print media. I agree that these show hosts are beyond obnoxious, but, sometimes they ferret out intentions/opinions that otherwise might not be voiced in ideologically friendly publications.
But, if you're saying be skeptical, and thoroughly 'check out' everything one reads from a MSM source, I couldn't agree more. I think it would be folly to take any one news source at face value--including progressive news sources/sites. As I see it, they have an agenda, too.
Mollie
“I believe in the redemptive powers of a dog’s love. It is in recognition of each dog’s potential to lift the human spirit and therefore– to change society for the better, that I fight to make sure every street dog has its day.”
--Stasha Wong, Secretary, Save Our Street Dogs (SOSD)
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
Understand U.L.
I'm just coming from a how can we break it angle. Boycott, protest, demand an end to the monopoly, demand justice for aiding and abetting war crimes, I don't know. Somehow we have to break this media monopoly that spreads lies and propaganda. One way we do that with other corporations and businesses is to not give them our business.
I do know I don't watch them, haven't for many years now, and my knowledge level is pretty good. I do think we need to keep tabs on what's being said in the corporate media but we can do that from print/internet. I don't think the TV is necessary for that. The Sunday shows are the highest form of propaganda and even though people like you can glean the appropriate information from them, most can't and don't.
And I agree, we have to check out any media source and educate ourselves properly so we can tell what is truth and what isn't.
Another confirmation that there isn't a MSM
that cares about anything other than the duopoly, the 1%, the oligarchs.
What the MSM doesn't tell you, is where the truth lies.
https://www.thenation.com/article/amy-goodman-is-facing-prison-for-repor...
Amy Goodman Is Facing Prison for Reporting on the Dakota Access Pipeline. That Should Scare Us All.
The charges against Goodman are a clear attack on journalism and freedom of the press.
By Lizzy Ratner
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
She's turning herself in tomorrow
to make a first amendment case out of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrfEasDnfGM (2 min)
Amy Goodman was charged by the state of North Dakota with criminal trespass.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
In the meantime here heinous
only need worry about the Federal Bureau of Immunity.
Wow, everything is so screwed up.
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
Hillary: “We discovered Japan for Heaven sakes.”
http://warisacrime.org/content/what-hillary-clinton-privately-told-goldm...
Hillary: “We have proof we bought [Hawaii].”
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/read_segments_of_hillary_clintons_wa...
Ignorant and racist.
Bullshit. We STOLE Hawai'i
and have no intention of ever giving it back - regardless of what the Hawaiians want.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
US ship fired on — will the Gulf of Tonkin fit into the Red Sea?
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/10/will-gulf-tonkin-fit-red-sea.html
Also, Obama wants speech on the Internet to be subject to “some sort of curating function”:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-decries-wild-west-media-landscape-21464...
I liked this paragraph
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Conspiracy theory=favorite Dem establishment talking point
It irks me every time I see/hear it.
However, now that I've seen the Matrix, up close and personal, I pay more attention to what is being called CT; because, as we know from the primary, when Dem establishment shills and Koolaid drinkers start throwing it around, they're likely attempting to cover up truth.
Kudos, lookout, great OT to have to reveiw the weeks
most important stories, especially for the list of leaks from Wikileaks.
So far I never read much twitters, but I have done so now on the Podesta email leaks and it's pretty amazing what one can find in there. Thanks for your work.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Thanks mimi
I always appreciate your sense of news and what is important.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”