If you do nothing else today, watch this 10-minute video from Kash Jackson, a veteran who is on a righteous rant. As he says, there's a lot of profanity in this video, but he's angry. He also is connecting all the right dots.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqa5kHUr8_A&feature=youtu.be]
Perhaps people have forgotten, perhaps they were not even taught, democracy is fragile. I am sorry for the long intro with some voluminous links, if you are happy with your understanding of fascism scroll on down to : My Thoughts
One overlooked item from the the release of the executive summary of the Senate Torture Report in 2014 was that the Justice Department’s Bureau of Prisons visited a CIA black site in Afghanistan in 2002 to conduct an "assessment".
**edited December 2, 2016, to correct the link to donate directly to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and to update for the December days of action**
**updated December 3 with new links for Oceti Sakowin camp and donations**
**updated December 7 with Defund DAPL link and step-by-step instructions**
Since I seem to be blogging almost daily on the situation in North Dakota, I thought I'd create a one-stop essay with all the donation links, phone numbers of people to put pressure on, where to send supplies, etc. If you have other suggestions, please put them in the comments and I'll update. Please do what you can, and feel free to repost this anywhere.
Edward Snowden won a potentially critical court case recently.
There's been a big brewhaha about "fake news" lately, with "journalistic heavyweights" like the Washington Post running stories suggesting that fake news caused Hillary Clinton to lose the recent election, and the "newspaper of record," the New York Times demanding that Facebook and Google police fake news and prevent its placement in their media. Needless to say, Hillary Clinton's campaign says that Democrats will target fake news and call out Facebook for it, too.
The powers-that-be seem quite desperate to reclaim the narrative and get the work of creating fake news back into the hands of the professionals - the government, that is.
You can bet your bottom dollar that the fake news that these powerful people and institutions want to stop has nothing to do with the propaganda that official sources create with the help of a team of liveried journalists.
I wrote a pair of articles back in 2012 about fake news, calling out Obama for his despicable practices. Sadly, they didn't get much attention, because, well, the audience that I was writing for was incapable of dealing with any criticism of Obama. I'm going to repost them here to illustrate the barrenness of the claims of the power elites calling for censorship. I hope that the crowd here enjoys them.
Donald Trump is not going to clear the swamp, he is going to redirect the flow of brackish water into his own swamp. Relocating the swamp.
Blake Wells is a student at the Canadian Durham College in Oshawa, Ontario.
In less than an hour, you can pray and stand with Standing Rock. Check the link to see if there's a community gathering near you.
