Friday, October 30, 2020

RSN: A Short History of the Lesser Evil

RSN: A Short History of the Lesser Evil: Bronner writes: Trump: first against Hillary Clinton in 2016, and now against Joseph Biden - another bitter pill for the left to swallow. There are enough who throw up their hands in frustration.

500,000 Kids, 30 Million Hours: Trump’s Vast Expansion of Child Detention | The Marshall Project

500,000 Kids, 30 Million Hours: Trump’s Vast Expansion of Child Detention | The Marshall Project: New data shows huge numbers of children detained at the border, peaking in 2019.

#CloseTheConcentrationCamps #VoteAntiFascist #MakeAmericaNotAnAutocracyAgain

(411) Jordan Klepper Hits One Last Trump Rally Before the Election | The Daily Social Distancing Show - YouTube

(411) Jordan Klepper Hits One Last Trump Rally Before the Election | The Daily Social Distancing Show - YouTube: Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING! #MakeAmericaThinkAgain #MakeAmericaNotAnAutocracyAgain

Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America | PBS

Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America | PBS: Discover how the advent of the car brought African Americans new freedom but also dangers.

Trump has rolled back 125 climate and environmental policies. It would take Biden years to restore them. - Washington Post

Trump has rolled back 125 climate and environmental policies. It would take Biden years to restore them. - Washington Post: President Trump has weakened or wiped out more than 125 rules and policies aimed at protecting the nation’s air, water and land since taking office, with nearly 40 more rollbacks underway, according to a Washington Post analysis.

THE MAN CARD | FULL MOVIE | A Film About White Male Identity Politics fr...

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

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MY PLEA

        
When Trump says only HE can decide who is seen as an American, & that he can even declare people who have thought of themselves as Americans to be not-American, un-American, or anti-American, remember that that means YOU too, & not simply the implied 'immigrants' #voteantifascist




 





Fascist Culture, Critical Pedagogy, and Resistance in Dark Times - CounterPunch.org

Fascist Culture, Critical Pedagogy, and Resistance in Dark Times - CounterPunch.org

Let this serve as my appeal to Trump supporters. Vote! Make America Not Autocratic Again!

Distant Drums - halloween

Hold The Line | A Guide to Defending Democracy

Hold The Line | A Guide to Defending Democracy

Newsrooms: Prepare For The Election To Go Off The Rails | by Jennifer Brandel | We Are Hearken | Oct, 2020 | Medium

Newsrooms: Prepare For The Election To Go Off The Rails | by Jennifer Brandel | We Are Hearken | Oct, 2020 | Medium: If you’re covering the US elections and you haven’t prepared for it to go utterly off the rails, then you’re not ready. Are we being alarmist? Why listen to me or Hearken on this? Because we’ve been…

The Black Hole of Depressions: Doing Nothing About Climate Emergency Could Cost More Than All the Wealth in the World | Common Dreams Views

The Black Hole of Depressions: Doing Nothing About Climate Emergency Could Cost More Than All the Wealth in the World | Common Dreams Views: A study in Nature Communications has found that if you add in variability to calculations of the impact of climate change, the upper range of the damage it could do to property is $563 trillion.* That is in the worst case scenario where the world does virtually nothing to stop carbon dioxide and methane emissions over the coming decades. | By Juan Cole

The White Extremist Group Patriot Front Is Preparing For A World After Donald Trump

The White Extremist Group Patriot Front Is Preparing For A World After Donald Trump

Amy Coney Barrett Is Confirmed & Democrats Vow Revenge | The Daily Socia...

Paul Gilroy: ‘Whiteness Just Ain’t Worth What it Used to Be’ | The Nation

Paul Gilroy: ‘Whiteness Just Ain’t Worth What it Used to Be’ | The Nation: A conversation about racial tensions on both sides of the Atlantic, nationalism, and why inequality might be the key to understanding our current crisis.

Trump, Inc.: Episodes | WNYC Studios | Podcasts

Trump, Inc.: Episodes | WNYC Studios | Podcasts: Who's profiting from this administration and at what cost?

‎Trumpcast on Apple Podcasts

‎Trumpcast on Apple Podcasts: ‎A quasi-daily podcast from Slate chronicling Donald Trump's rise to the presidency and his current administration. Journalists Virginia Heffernan and León Krauze talk to reporters, historians, psychiatrists, and other experts to help explain who this man is and why this is happening, right now, in t…

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Trump Administration Gives Up on Controlling the Coronavirus Pandemic: A...

George Monbiot Exposes Coronavirus Corruption at the Heart of Government

Race for a COVID Vaccine Puts Sharks — and Ocean Ecosystems — in Peril • Children's Health Defense

Race for a COVID Vaccine Puts Sharks — and Ocean Ecosystems — in Peril • Children's Health Defense: At least five drugmakers are using squalene, a compound extracted from sharks, in clinical and pre-clinical evaluations for a COVID-19 vaccine.

What Victorian-era seaweed pressings reveal about our changing seas | Environment | The Guardian

What Victorian-era seaweed pressings reveal about our changing seas | Environment | The Guardian

[VIRTUAL] PEN PRESENTS: A READING IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE BELARUSIAN PEOPLE

An Explosive Government Report Exposed Family Separations and Other Immigration Horrors—in 1931 – Mother Jones

An Explosive Government Report Exposed Family Separations and Other Immigration Horrors—in 1931 – Mother Jones

Here’s the case for impeaching Clarence Thomas — the most corrupt Supreme Court Justice – Raw Story

Here’s the case for impeaching Clarence Thomas — the most corrupt Supreme Court Justice – Raw Story

Malaria parasites hide out in humans when it's not mosquito season

Malaria parasites hide out in humans when it's not mosquito season: Malaria parasites survive the mosquito-free dry season by waiting silently in humans for the return of the rainy season that brings back with it mosquitoes. New research, by an international team including Penn State scientists, helps explain how the Plasmodium falciparum parasite survives the disruption to its lifecycle, which requires development within the mosquito host for transmission between people. A paper describing the research appears Oct. 26 in the journal Nature Medicine.

Sunday, October 25, 2020

Ruby Sales on African-American youth

And what that meant was that generations of young African-American children were pushed to achieve this mission [of integration]. And we sent them into places that were unsafe, where they were humiliated, and their egos were decimated in structures—as Toni Morrison said, “Out there, they don’t love our children.” And these generations of African-American children have felt abandoned, and there’s a chasm that has grown up between younger and older African Americans, based on this sense of younger people, of having felt that they were abandoned. And they don’t understand, why did we send them, young children, into places like that without any protection? – Ruby Sales


Masha Gessen: Surviving Autocracy

'Blackwater Is Back' -- Erik Prince Wants to Rise Again - Rolling Stone

'Blackwater Is Back' -- Erik Prince Wants to Rise Again - Rolling Stone: Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage

Americans Have Lost Sight of What 'Fascism' Means - The Atlantic

Americans Have Lost Sight of What 'Fascism' Means - The Atlantic

"White Privilege: A History of the Concept" by Jacob Bennett

"White Privilege: A History of the Concept" by Jacob Bennett: This thesis’ goal is to examine the way the term and concept of white privilege has been created in contemporary American society. The argument of the thesis will be that before and directly after discrimination was made illegal in the United States by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, scholars and activists implemented the term white privilege to describe structural and governmentally perpetuated privilege in the United States that had been consciously given to whites. This privilege allowed whites to obtain legal advantages over minorities across the nation. Years after the legislation was passed, however, discrimination was still an issue in the country. White privilege’s definition shifted in order to explain the reason for that reality; White privilege was not perpetuated by conscious and explicit efforts, but by white citizen’s subconscious. This thesis will show how that shift occurred, using scholarly and non-academic writer’s usage of the term white privilege.

Ronald Reagan called African UN delegates 'monkeys', recordings reveal | US news | The Guardian

Ronald Reagan called African UN delegates 'monkeys', recordings reveal | US news | The Guardian: In newly released audio, then California governor can be heard making racist remarks on phone call with Richard Nixon

Dick Gaughan - Workers' Song

Friday, October 23, 2020

What's Wrong with America

Brief Weeds - A very generous portrait.

'Act of radical defiance': Groups unite to again post millions of dollars in bond to free immigrants

'Act of radical defiance': Groups unite to again post millions of dollars in bond to free immigrants: For the second year in a row, organizations are uniting to free hundreds of people from dangerous and inhumane immigration detention conditions. Immigrant rights groups, in coordination with the National Bail Fund Network and Detention Watch...

Contact Hamilton County Voters with SURJ and Operation Change Cincy - Action Network

Contact Hamilton County Voters with SURJ and Operation Change Cincy - Action Network: Action Network

Please help us finally be rid of one of Ohio's racist sheriffs. Contact Hamilton County Voters with SURJ and Operation Change Cincy - Action Network https://actionnetwork.org/forms/contact-hamilton-county-voters-with-surj-and-operation-change-cincy #ohio #Cincinnati #alwaysantifascist

Counting Down Donald Trump’s 100 Most Tremendous Scandals: 100-76 | The ...

Some Dark Money in the Ohio Supreme Court Elections - Common Cause Ohio

Some Dark Money in the Ohio Supreme Court Elections - Common Cause Ohio

Dark Ironies: The Financial Times and Cambridge Analytica – Byline Times

Dark Ironies: The Financial Times and Cambridge Analytica – Byline Times: Dr Emma Briant reports on the contract between the famous media company and the now-defunct data operation set up by Steve Bannon and Robert Mercer

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Toshinori Kondo “Blow The Earth” In Naraha, Fukushima, Japan.近藤等則 ”地球を吹くin Naraha” on Vimeo

Toshinori Kondo “Blow The Earth” In Naraha, Fukushima, Japan.近藤等則 ”地球を吹くin Naraha” on Vimeo: TOSHINORI KONDO "Blow The Earth" in Naraha-Town ,Fukushima,Japan. 11.Mar.2017. "Blow the Earth in Naraha-cho" by Toshinori Kondo was held…

Repression of Black Social Movements | Mobilizing Ideas

Repression of Black Social Movements | Mobilizing Ideas: By Crystal Nicole Eddins Even during times of ‘normalcy’, or non-protest cycles, African descendants’ structural realities are constrained and shaped by oppressive targeting due to pervasive, insti…

Family separation under the Trump administration – a timeline | Southern Poverty Law Center

Family separation under the Trump administration – a timeline | Southern Poverty Law Center: Long before the Trump administration implemented its “zero tolerance” immigration enforcement policy in 2018, it was already separating children from their parents as part of a “pilot program” conducted in the El Paso, Texas, area and along other parts of the border.

Polluted air killing half a million babies a year across globe | Environment | The Guardian

Polluted air killing half a million babies a year across globe | Environment | The Guardian: State of Global Air report says indoor air quality causing two-thirds of the deaths and affecting health in the womb

Bob Dylan - The Death of Emmett Till (lyrics)

The World Health Organization: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)


Without real science, it seems our official policy is now “herd immunity”? Without a vaccine, this means an official policy of “mass murder.”

Monday, October 12, 2020

Ecosystems at risk of collapse in one in five countries, report says

Ecosystems at risk of collapse in one in five countries, report says: wiss Re has issued a stark warning that ecosystems in a fifth of countries are at risk of collapse, according to a Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Index launched by the insurer.

The report underlines the risk to economies, claiming that 55 per cent of global GDP is dependent on “high-functioning biodiversity and ecosystem services”. It goes on to say both richer and poorer economies are being affected. While countries such as South Africa and Australia are vulnerable in part due to their water scarcity issues, the relative size of the agricultural sectors in Kenya and Nigeria is also of concern.

Even in countries with a more intact ecosystem there are risks. Brazil, for example, currently has a high percentage of these “intact ecosystems” but is also experiencing a significant rise in deforestation under its current president, Jair Bolsonaro. From 2019 to 2020, the rate of deforestation has increased by more than 10 per cent, according to the country’s space research agency.

Swiss Re’s analysis found that countries with large agricultural sectors and dependence on natural resources were most at risk. It recommends that countries facing ecosystem collapse look at diversifying

Friday, October 9, 2020

Louisiana priest arrested for alleged threesome on church altar: report | Fox News

Louisiana priest arrested for alleged threesome on church altar: report | Fox News: A Louisiana priest who was arrested for obscenity last week was allegedly having sex with two dominatrices on the altar of his church, court documents revealed, according to reports.

Trumping Democracy 2017 Documentary About Donald Trump - video dailymotion

Trumping Democracy 2017 Documentary About Donald Trump - video dailymotion: Trumping Democracy 2017 Documentary About Donald Trump Donald Trump became the 45th President of the United States by winning three key states, a victory engineered by an ultra-conservative faction that quietly mapped its way to power using fake news, lies and psychometrics. This explosive documentary follows the money to the reclusive multi-billionaire Robert Mercer who bought Breitbart News and funded the effort, while inserting Steve Bannon into the presidential campaign as its manager. Using data of millions of Americans acquired from Facebook, Google, banks, credit companies, social security and more, another Mercer company, Cambridge Analytica, used tactics honed during the UK's Brexit campaign to identify voters deemed "most neurotic or worried," whom they believed could swing for Trump. In the days before the election, using a little-known Facebook feature, "dark posts", they deployed highly manipulative and personalized messages, that could be seen only by the user before disappearing. In the darkness of the web, democracy was trumped by data. This explosive documentary follows the money to the elusive multi-billionaire Robert Mercer who bought Breitbart News and funded t

Sally Oldfield - Hide and Seek

Ilga Reizniece - "Putnu Mate Putnus Sauca (Spirit Mother of the Birds)"

What happened when another White Suprematist President Got the Flu in a Pandemic During the World War

Woodrow Wilson Got the Flu in a Pandemic During the World War I Peace Talks - HISTORY: Lingering effects of the 'Spanish flu' may have hindered Wilson's ability to effectively advocate for his '14 Points' at the Paris Peace Conference.

Ohio Democratic Party -- Supreme Court Fund — Donate via ActBlue

Ohio Democratic Party -- Supreme Court Fund — Donate via ActBlue

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"I wish I was sitting back there surrounded by various (alcoholic) brews. He has a little (beer) tap on the side of each drum"

Friday, October 2, 2020

Outbreak movie - USA Pandemic - Coronavirus in America - Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Donald Sutherland - video dailymotion

Outbreak movie - USA Pandemic - Coronavirus in America - Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Donald Sutherland - video dailymotion: Check out the official trailer of Outbreak to get a better idea of how the current pandemic will affect the USA. Coronavirus in America - USA Pandemic - Outbreak movie trailer (1995) - Plot synopsis: Outbreak is a 1995 American medical disaster film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and based on Richard Preston's nonfiction book The Hot Zone. It stars Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman and Donald Sutherland, and co-stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Kevin Spacey and Patrick Dempsey.The film focuses on an outbreak of a fictional Ebola-like virus, Motaba, in Zaire and later in a small town in the United States. It is primarily set in the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the fictional town of Cedar Creek, California. Outbreak's plot speculates how far military and civilian agencies might go to contain the spread of a deadly, contagious disease.The film, released on March 10, 1995, was a box-office success and Spacey won two awards for his performance. A real-life outbreak of the Ebola virus was occurring in Zaire when the film was released.Director: Wolfgang PetersenWriters: Laurence Dworet, Robert Ro

Fake news hoax exposed: NY Times podcast star lied about joining ISIS | The Grayzone

Fake news hoax exposed: NY Times podcast star lied about joining ISIS | The Grayzone: The main source for New York Times podcast Caliphate, Abu Huzayfah, lied about joining ISIS. The newspaper has a long history of fake news

Border Patrol Snipers Were Authorized to Use Deadly Force at George Floyd’s Burial

Border Patrol Snipers Were Authorized to Use Deadly Force at George Floyd’s Burial: Records obtained by VICE News show police in Pearland, Texas, invited federal agents to surveil Floyd's burial and authorized them to open fire in the event of unrest.




The Church Must Be Antifascist | The Bias Magazine

The Church Must Be Antifascist | The Bias Magazine: Trump is not Hitler and America is not a fascist theocracy. But America has long nurtured its own fascistic ideas and movements and Trump is ripening conditions for its growth. The Christian Church now has a choice to make: be antifascist or acquiesce to fascism.

Thursday, October 1, 2020

“40 Ways to Fight Fascists: Street-Legal Tactics for Community Activists” – Spencer Sunshine

“40 Ways to Fight Fascists: Street-Legal Tactics for Community Activists” – Spencer Sunshine

"The Department of Homeland Security is now a white nationalist propaganda clearinghouse.”

Trump's Homeland Security: 'Sympathetic' Talking Points On Kyle Rittenhouse | Crooks and Liars: NBC News has obtained evidence that DHS is releasing, on purpose, talking points "sympathetic" to White nationalist vigilante (alleged!) Kyle Rittenhouse.

A Message from the Future II: The Years of Repair

We could save over $161 billion by canceling Wall Street

Cancel Wall Street - Action Center on Race and the Economy




New Global Report Warns Nearly 40% of Plants at Risk of Extinction | Common Dreams News

New Global Report Warns Nearly 40% of Plants at Risk of Extinction | Common Dreams News: "At a time of rapid biodiversity loss, we are failing to access the treasure chest of incredible diversity on offer and missing a huge opportunity for our generation."








Yeesh, this should put things - all things - into perspective. :-(

It’s been 12 years since debate moderators last asked a question about climate change | Salon.com

It’s been 12 years since debate moderators last asked a question about climate change | Salon.com: Donald Trump was forced to talk about climate at the first presidential debate

New Report: President Trump has 3,400 conflicts of interest - CREW

New Report: President Trump has 3,400 conflicts of interest - CREW: Averaging more than two conflicts of interest per day, President Trump continues to be the most corrupt president in history

Russian Opposition Leader Navalny Says Putin Is Behind His Poisoning - The New York Times

Russian Opposition Leader Navalny Says Putin Is Behind His Poisoning - The New York Times: In an interview with Der Spiegel, Aleksei Navalny said the use of a military-grade nerve agent was proof that Russia’s president was involved.

Donald Trump Personally to Blame for 37 Percent of the World’s COVID-19 Misinformation, Study Finds

Donald Trump Personally to Blame for 37 Percent of the World’s COVID-19 Misinformation, Study Finds: Researchers at Cornell analyzed 38 million articles about the pandemic before coming to their shocking conclusion.