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NEW Improved Monday Open Thread: August 27 is National Banana Lovers Day

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 08/27/2018 - 5:00am

August 27 is the 239th day of the year; as well as Prickle-Prickle, Bureaucracy 20, 3184 YOLD
to discordians.

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3 cubed, woo hoo, a triangle of triangles. We could go all fractal from here, but it takes a lof of time,.

John Brennan's loss of security clearance--political castration

Submitted by Alligator Ed on Mon, 08/27/2018 - 2:21am

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy /s.

Maintenance of security clearances upon leaving Federal employ is supposed to be on a need to know basis. It is not a privilege. However in the incestuous revolving door atmosphere of Washington D.C., maintenance of such perks is commonplace--and is the expected, albeit not legal, norm after leaving office.

Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up - Put the precariat before the stick

Submitted by annieli on Sun, 08/26/2018 - 6:44pm

 

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“The United States is now at one of those historic forks in the road whose outcome will prove as fateful as those of the 1860s, the 1930s, and the 1960s,” writes Nancy MacLean. “To value liberty for the wealthy minority above all else and enshrine it in the nation’s governing rules, as Calhoun and Buchanan both called for and the Koch network is achieving, play by play, is to consent to an oligarchy in all but the outer husk of representative form.”

These are precarious times and our cultural discourse sometimes obscures the contradictions embodied in our celebratory moments.

The meaning of financial value and collective uncertainty get muddled especially in employment and wage slavery, as “ life has become increasingly precarious for the many Americans who lack job security”.

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“You Will Not Replace Us!” This slogan was coined from a statement by Nathan Damigo, founder of the white-nationalist campus group Identity Evropa, who retorted to an anti-Donald Trump “He will not divide us” campaign by actor Shia LeBeouf on social media: “Shia LeBeouf, you will not replace us with your globalism.” The chant is closely related to the white-nationalist “White Genocide”meme, reflective of their fears that white people and white culture are under attack from multiculturalism and nonwhite races. According to the Anti-Defamation League, the slogan began appearing on white-nationalist flyers and banners in May, and has spread widely since then. (At times during the first Charlottesville march, the chant morphed into “Jews Will Not Replace Us!”) www.splcenter.org/...

We’ve already looked at basic income issues in ACM, sometimes in the context of the BEIN (Basic Income Earth Network), but the current situation reminds us daily of the class differences that would prevent redressing inequality by enforcing inequity. It is as it’s always been for the many against the few.Even more precarious is an anti-immigrant fervor based on racism at the highest levels of government, and somehow tinged with a lie about racial/gender displacement that becomes even more bald-faced using social media. Your job is never really taken away as if it were a privileged gift, especially when some fundamental human rights to one’s labor should remain paramount.

An entire class of precariousness describes one social division that has been described beyond the notion of working poor in “the richest nation on earth”.

Global banking and off books wealth - Updated

Submitted by gulfgal98 on Sun, 08/26/2018 - 5:43pm

Much of what Qanon has posted in the past is now being verified by an Australian who goes by the name of Eliahi Priest. Priest, whose real name is Peter Priest has compiled an enormous amount of information on the banking interests of the CIA, Rothschilds, and the Vatican.

psyops within psyops over syria, including exploited children & a PSA from john bolton

Submitted by wendy davis on Sun, 08/26/2018 - 10:40am

First up:  Jeffrey St. Clair: “+ Someone recently asked me to describe what I mean by the Sputnik Left and I said you’ll know it when you see it. The best definition I could come up with was: political activists who rigorously apply Chomsky’s lens to the NYT, WashPost, and the Guardian, but regurgitate as gospel whatever they read or hear on RT or Sputnik.”, ‘Roaming Charges’, Aug. 24, 2018 (a big wd smile)

The Weekly Watch

Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 08/26/2018 - 7:00am

Ninth Dimensional Distractions

American people are routinely misinformed, misled, and deceived by the lame stream media. It is no wonder that we are rushing head long toward extinction. The international media has displayed less interest in global warming and climate change throughout the last decade. For the most part, US citizens can barely keep their heads above water as they struggle with multiple jobs...or no job. Snippets of news are all people have to inform their world views.

July 3, 2017, to July 3, 2018, MSNBC dedicated zero segments to the US’s war in Yemen, but 455 segments to Stormy Daniels. … After all, Obama backed the war on Yemen—though not nearly as aggressively as Trump has—and it’s difficult to make a coherent left-wing, anti-war criticism when the current Republican in office is simply carrying out your guy’s policy, but on steroids.

https://fair.org/home/action-alert-its-been-over-a-year-since-msnbc-has-... And it isn't just US media...even in New Zealand people get the corporate spin. We face even more serious threats to independent media due to a spate of corporate censorship. Facebook and Twitter in conjunction with CIA staffed think tanks are taking down accounts of Iranians, Russians, and others they deem inappropriate. Even Telesur English was removed from Facebook for a few days until public outcry paved the way for their return https://mronline.org/2018/08/21/what-is-behind-facebook-deleting-telesur...

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