Once the uber-rich take over, the only options are tyranny and revolution. Aristotle (over 2300 years ago)
What is that saying, "the more things change, the more they stay the same"? They're staying real, real same, man.
It's hard to say exactly what is happening in Venezuela because there is so much disinformation about it. I seriously doubt that things are nearly as bad there as we are being told by the U.S. media.
However, there is no doubt at all that Venezuela is in very bad straits.
I've been saying it for a while, and now Jimmy Dore is calling bullsh*t on these polls too.
(Just looked and didn't see anything on this, so decided to quickly put something together to see if folks wanted to talk about it. )
My partner texted me this afternoon from midtown Manhattan to see if I'd heard about what appears to be coordinated bomb attempts aimed at high profile Democratic Party members, as well as in the media. I purposely have watched none of the coverage and only did a very bare, cursory scan of Twitter before writing this.
Remember when the Koch Brothers attacked Medicare For All, and instead proved that it would save money?
So now it's Trump's turn to attack MFA, and you can probably guess how this one turned out.
NOTE:The title and much of the quoted text are from Jackson Browne's brilliant Before the Deluge
(File my tips in the FWIW category in case I’m mistaken. I’m not sure on some of the terminology, so there’s that as well. or even under: GetStuffed,) ; )
First, there’s a Subject line, followed by the body of the comment. if one doesn’t use a few words in the Subject space, and instead only uses the big body box, some of the words repeat, making quite a jumble.
The lead essay in Jacobin yesterday was "Against Geoengineering," and this piece is a critique of that essay. "Against Geoengineering" touches upon issues of climate change and of how a human society is to mitigate it.
Bernie Sanders said the other day, “I happen not to believe that there’s going to be this great blue wave.”
Rahm Emanuel on Monday said next month’s midterm election is a “blue wave with a red undertow”.
I didn’t know thing one about this. I would have thought there would have been some mention of this at the time of the Deeprick blowout. I guess some (corporate) people really can keep secrets.
An oil spill you've never heard of could become one of the biggest environmental disasters in the US
Every history book will tell you that the fighting ended in 1953 with only a cease fire, not a peace agreement.
Well, guess what?
At my job we don’t talk much about politics. It’s officially frowned upon now, because some people apparently got offended from overhearing some other people dissing a candidate, politician, or party that they like, and complained about it to management. Who responded with a vague, passive aggressive missive in the employee newsletter about “respecting everyone’s beliefs and points of view” and to avoid divisive topics “such as politics” in our casual office chatter.
