Joe Manchin Singlehandedly Robs Unemployed Americans of BILLIONS of Dollars

 

 Rightwing Democratic Senator Joe Manchin just cheated hard working laid-off Americans, many with families to support, out of billions of dollars of enhanced unemployment benefits.
A traitor to his own party, Manchin sabotaged Biden's COVID relief bill, dubbed "The American Rescue Plan." The House of Representatives previously passed the bill in its prior form. Now the House is having the Manchin-vandalized version shoved down its throat. 

What a venal character.

Bad enough that MOST unemployed people are NOT getting ANY benefits. On top of that, most states provide extremely skimpy benefits to workers who lose their jobs through no fault of their own. (Workers who quit or are fired "for cause" are not entitled to a red cent in state support. This forces workers to put up with horrible jobs, including health-destroying ones. Nor are workers labeled "independent contractors," including under the "digital economy" label "gig workers," eligible. Those who are legally eligible are forced to leap over a variety of hurdles designed to prevent them from receiving benefits. And as if THAT weren't enough to cheat workers, hundreds of thousands are falsely accused of fraud by their state's government agencies. See the reference at the bottom.) Biden's Covid Relief Bill would have added $400 to the state unemployment insurance payments, through the end of September 2021.

"Centrist" Joe Manchin found this unacceptable and insisted on $300 only, PLUS ending the top-off September 7. (The Power Establishment's propaganda system insists on calling Manchin a "centrist" habitually attaches the adjective "moderate" to his name. What's he in the "center" of? Hard line reaction on one side and conservative status quo "liberals" on the other? And if he's "moderate," that makes anyone to his left immoderate, extreme. Detect any anti-progressive media bias there?)

$300 is only HALF the additional $600 per week the unemployed got from the Federal government LAST year under TRUMP!

Rather than the other 49 Democratic Senators blasting Manchin and insisting he support the party and his own party's president, Manchin got his way. Probably because they didn't really object.

This extortion was only possible because the Senate is divided, 50 Republicans who virtually always constitute a solid reactionary bloc, and 49 Democrats plus the Independent Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont, who lines up with the Democrats most of the time.

So in order for the bill to pass, Manchin's vote was needed. Thus this creepy extortionist robbed around 10 million Americans of billions of dollars. Just do the math. $100 stolen off every check to 10 million people is a billion bucks. That's on every single payment, so the theft adds up to tens of billions, including the bulk of September where the robbery is $400 per check. (A 50-50 tie vote would be broken by the vice president, Kamala Harris.) (As of this writing, the U.S. Department of Labor on its website puts the number of people receiving unemployment compensation at 10.1 million people. Most of whom in turn support family members. So probably around 30 million people are partially or wholly dependent on these payments.)

Manchin benefits personally from his mass theft from millions of people. Manchin, like every U.S. Senator, represents the business interests of state. U.S. business benefits from keeping workers insecure and without recourse to significant state aid. It forces them to accept whatever wages and working conditions are dished out to them. This is called 'labor discipline" in capitalist economic terminology. And with only an insignificant fraction of the non-governmental labor force represented by unions (like 8%), workers have little leverage and scant bargaining power with companies and their bosses. The virtual destruction of organized labor in the U.S. was a project of the ruling elite spanning decades that has been hugely successful. Even assassinations were used in this magnificent achievement. 

Manchin doesn't benefit personally from his attack on the welfare of tens of million of people just because his donors are pleased, and the local media (the propaganda arms of the capitalist elite) will continue to promote him, he also benefits very directly as half owner of a local hotel, where the workers are paid $8.81 an hour. Remember what I just explained about "labor discipline." Indeed, reactionaries have been screeching that "too generous" benefits will "discourage people from working," i.e. from working for miserly pay and little or no benefits.
 
West Virginia, the state that miserly Manchin "represents," is a poor state. As we see, Manchin is directly attacking the economic welfare of many of "his own" constituents.

And yet they vote for this bastard.

What is the explanation for such masochism?

Rank stupidity, I suppose. And the effects of years of establishment media lies and brainwashing and gaslighting, in particular letting Manchin get away with posing as a local Everyman to his "fellow West Virginians."
 
Since I am not a leftist, I don't have the leftist bias of putting "the people" on a pedestal and making excuses for the masses. To leftists, the millions who vote for reactionaries and con men are being tricked somehow, and "we" just need to "educate" them to enlighten them.
Well lefties have been yakking away at people for centuries in the U.S., and it has mostly been futile. The truth is, people are fundamentally irrational, and that is why they are immune to persuasion with mere facts. As the fascist Ronald Reagan once notorious said, "facts are stupid things." The Higher Truth of ideology trumps facts.

The power establishment's national  propaganda system habitually designates Manchin as a "moderate." This is their deceptive lingo for rightwing but not fascist.

So meet the new boss of the U.S. Senate, same as the old boss. Before it was Mitch McConnell from the primitive state of Kentucky who ruled the Senate as Republican Majority Leader, or Fuhrer. Now it's Joe Manchin from the primitive backwater state of West Virginia, a state so mired in the past that people there refuse to let go of the coal industry- a criminal industry that has systematically destroyed the environment of the state

An acknowledgement of Manchin's grotesque power (but NOT a condemnation or criticism of it) came from long-time NPR figure Mara Liasson, who said "You're not gonna get rid of the filibuster or reform it without Joe Manchin on your side." [1]

I guess that means the Republicans will continue to have a veto over most legislation, since the "filibuster rule," an invention of racist Southern Senators in the 19th century intended to protect slavery- as if it needed more protecting- requires 60 votes out of 100 to do most ANYTHING in the U.S. Senate. (An exception was carved out for "budget reconciliation" bills, and the Democrats used that to push through the Manchin-crippled Covid Relief Bill.)

By the way, it was a BIG DEAL that took YEARS to "achieve" to change the filibuster rule from requiring 67 votes for "cloture." a fancy term for ending "debate," as if Senators actually debate.

"300 BUCKS A WEEK, AND NOT A PENNY MORE!" "Moderate" Manchin decides what you deserve.

 1] "Brian Lehrer Show," Radio station WNYC, New York City, March 8, 2021, wnyc.org. NPR is National Public Radio, a creation of the U.S. government funded by the government and by corporations and private foundations. It is disseminated through a nationwide network of "public" radio stations, and of course on its website, npr.org.

The best overview of the awful nature of unemployment insurance in most of the U.S. was done by a comedian- a British comedian at that. The U.S. has so many "news" organizations, but since virtually all of them are run to protect and promote bourgeois class interests, they strive to keep much of reality invisible. Thus people think what they personally experience is unique to them and are brainwashed to believe that their economic problems are entirely their own fault. Make sure you watch Unemployment Last Week Tonight with John Oliver- March 8, 2021.


For U.S. Department of Labor statistics, click here.

Evil Propagandist Dies, And Some U.S. Media Hails Him As A Great Man

  A "legend," an "icon," these are words being used on radio "news" stations and elsewhere to describe the noxious, destructive purveyor of ignorant lies Rush Limbaugh, whose cigar smoking caught up with him at the age of 70, dead after "a battle with" lung cancer. (Susan Sontag demolished the obnoxious propaganda habit of describing people with diseases as "battling" the disease in her book "Illness As Metaphor.") (Most people don't read much except junk, so they won't be informed of how evil Limbaugh was.)

Why hail such a malign creature? Treating hard rightwing propagandists and its purveyors as respectable and legitimate gives them credence. The establishment power structure's propaganda system does this to indoctrinate the populace in reactionary ideology and lies that benefits the class interests of the rich and their corporate vehicles. This why even though "liberals" and "the liberal media" were constant targets of Limbaugh's mendacious vituperation, he was never honestly reported or commented on by those elements of the power structure.

You must understand that Limbaugh was part of a much larger phenomenon. Rich oligarchs who control several thousand radio stations in the U.S. decided to flood the airwaves with reactionary agit-propaganda spewed by demagogues into the ears of millions of people. Limbaugh was the most prominent of these- but not even the worst. [For example, Michael Weiner, who goes by the apt pseudonym "Michael Savage," is even worse.] [1]

Instead of sane, rational commentary, people's minds are assailed by neo-fascist rabble-rousing demagogues that the monopoly owners of U.S. radio stations have decided are fit fare to indoctrinate the American public with ultra-reactionary attitudes and warped versions of reality.

Why was Limbaugh so execrable? To prove the point  would be like trying to succinctly explain what was so awful about Nixon. It takes at least a book to do the topic justice. And just citing a few examples looks like picking and choosing. But every day, for decades, Limbaugh spewed reactionary poison into the eardrums of idiots who lapped up his lies.

Like all privileged fascists, Limbaugh was an extreme hypocrite who was addicted to illegal drugs while frequently demanding that other people (especially blacks)  who used outlawed drugs be given draconian prison terms or even be executed. (Limbaugh himself escaped punishment for his own lawbreaking of course.)

Limbaugh was a sexist, racist dog who specialized in character assassination. Just one example: In 2019 he falsely asserted that TV commentator Krystal Ball posed nude for photos at age 14.

Limbaugh spewed thousands of malicious lies during his "career," and it would be impossible to list them all here. So these are but a few of them.

Limbaugh helped kill many people by pooh-poohing the seriousness of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, which as of this writing has killed about half a million people in the U.S.

Limbaugh didn't just deny global warming, of course, he even denied the fact that CFC's destroy ozone in the upper atmosphere. Not even reactionary scientists deny this.

Limbaugh aided and abetted Trump's coup attempt by incessantly peddling the Big Lie that the Democrats "stole" the 2020 presidential election, a lie equivalent to the Nazi lie that Germany lost World War I because Jews stabbed Germany in the back. Equivalent in being a total fabrication and equivalent in being a malign political lie with terrible consequences.

It is a relief that Limbaugh in effect killed himself by his noxious habit of smoking cigars. He thought this anti-health practice was sticking it to the rest of us. Being anti-social is what reactionaries think is brave non-conformity. Being dead wrong is their idea of "independent thinking." 

Good riddance to a destructive creature.

Sucking on symbolic phalluses did the gay-hating Limbaugh in. Ironic, yes?

1] Mark Crispin Miller offers some revelations about "Savage." See "Mark Crispin Miller's Revelations About Gay Homophobic Crypto-Nazi 'Michael Savage.'"

Limbaugh spent 30 years excreting anti-human agit-propaganda into the airwaves. If you want to sicken yourself by investigating some of his revolting neo-fascist record, you can start with:

"Rush Limbaugh, Bigoted King Of Talk Radio, Dies At 70," HuffPost, 2/17/21; "The Life and Death of a Woman-Hater," New York Times, 2/20/21 [nice to see some establishment media do some truth-telling about Limbaugh]; and "RIP RUSH LIMBAUGH, WHO SPENT HIS ENTIRE LIFE ON THE GOVERNMENT DOLE," The Intercept, 2/19/21.

Had To Cry Today

 Today is January 18, a day the U.S. Federal government has designated an official holiday in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., a man that government murdered on April 4th, 1968. [1]

Naturally, certain media outlets devoted some airtime or text space to content about King. Democracy Now! (democracynow.org, which is also aired on various radio stations) played parts of his speeches, including the last one, which he delivered in Memphis, Tennessee, the night before he was murdered there. He was in Memphis to support striking African-American sanitation workers, who were horribly abused and underpaid by the racist rulers of that city. The death of two of their brethren in a trash compactor was the last straw for these workers, prompting the strike. [2]

King's last speech foretold his own death.

The murder of King is tragic on a number of levels. On the deepest level, it is the triumph of evil over good. That is the hardest part to take.

It was a victory of racists over the oppressed "black" population of America. That gave heart to racists all over the world, ad pain and gloom to "blacks" worldwide.

It was a success for the U.S. power structure, whose members fervently hated King. King was the target of vicious attacks in leading U.S. media for his opposition to the Vietnam war, by the Washington Post in its editorial page a year earlier, and Life magazine, among many others.

It was a sweet victory for the FBI, especially the two leading culprits running that secret police agency, John Edgar Hoover and William Sullivan. Hoover branded King "the most dangerous negro in America." Sullivan at least met with poetic justice, shot dead in an apparent assassination. His killer was the son of a police official, and he claimed to be out hunting and thought Sullivan was a deer. (Sure.)

It was a victory for the CIA, which carried out the hit and arranged to frame the fall guy, a petty criminal and racist named James Earl Ray.

The "elimination" of King threw the civil rights movement into disarray, removed its most stirring orator nad leading figure, an irreplaceable person. It prompted riots in 100 cities, allowing the pwoer structure to kill more blacks (those inclined to rebellion). It helped elect the "law and order" candidate for president that November, RIchard Milhous Nixon, one of the most pathological figures in U.S. history. It helped deepen the racial divide. Divide and rule is a cardinal principle of the U.S. elite.  And tactially, it freed the way for the Johnson regime to crush the rally in Washington King had organized, which intended to stay in the capital city of the Empire until certain legislation was passed by Congress to economically aid the poor.

From the point of view of the ruling class, King was a menace. By coming out against the horrendous war on Vietnam, talking about the need to reform the capitalist system to resolve the race issue, and reaching out to aid workers, King could potentially raise people's consciousness by connecting the separate "issues" of war, racism, labor rights and the economic system and dcreate broad unity in segments of the populace. An intolerable menace.

And what of King's main nemesis, the creator of the secret police agency, the FBI? The bourgeois elite have mostly turned their backs on Hoover. Apparently his legacy of political repression is inconvenient for them- it clashes with their propaganda about loving "freedom and democracy" and the U.S. as "the land of the free."  But he is memorialized anyway. THe natioaal headquarters of the FBI, the main nest of this colony of fascist insects, is emblazoned with Hoover's name: "The J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building." As a state within a state, the FBI is free to honor the discredited Hoover. Establishment emdia and politicians maintain a discreet silence about this outrage, and do not demand the building be renamed. You see, in the U.S., unlike in other police states, no one controls the FBI. The U.S. is the police state to beat all police states.

King was a saint. That is, a person who was willing to sacrifice his own life for the greater good of humanity. He opposed violence against the vicious repression and terrorism against black people. He in a very articulate and dignified way asked the system to change its ways. Its response was to murder him.

So I spent part of the day crying. Not for the death of a good man. Good people die all the time. I can handle that. In part what caused my tears was the power of King's own words. In part the poignancy that a rare person, an American saint, was eliminated by an evil power structure that has ruled America from the beginning without interrupttion. But the main cause of my tears was the FACT that evil won, as it often does on this planet. Evil is destructive of humanity. And on a deeper level,  Evil is anti-Life.

1] Reactionaries and racists on every level of American society opposed the creation of the holiday. The political utility of the holiday for the power structure is that it can coopt King's legacy, erase his opposition to the Vietnam war and his economic critique of U.S. capitalism, and transform a vital leader and potential source of contemporary inspiration to push for change, into a plaster saint.

2]  Democracy Now ! program, click here.   Memphis sanitation strike as per Wikipedia, click here.

Trump Orders His Stormtrooper Mob to Invade Capitol Building, Stopping Presidential Election Certification

 The fascist mob of "Proud Boys" and other terrorists and fanatics that Trump summoned to Washington and ordered to besiege the Capitol building have invaded Congress. The Capitol police are desperately trying to evacuate the Congresspeople. A fascist fanatic is at the Senate rostrum, screaming that Trump won the election.  The building went on lockdown but the fascist mob broke into the building, trapping the legislators and others. [1]

Tear gas has been released in the Capitol rotunda (as of this writing it wasn't reported by who), a terrorist discharged a fire extinguisher, and the stormtroopers are breaking down doors inside the Capitol building.

So Trump is now going to say that Biden isn't president because the Electoral College results haven't been certified. He already tweeted that his vice president, Michael Trump, is a coward for not refusing to do his duty and ritually certify the results. (Trump said Pence "lacked courage" to "save America.")

Imagine if a mob of leftists tried to storm the Capitol. They'd simply be gunned down. As it was, we saw during the months of protests following the police murder of George Floyd how "leftist" protesters are treated by police. With rampant brutality, including deliberate blindings and killings.

Police reinforcements attempting to reach the Capitol building were blocked by protesters who stood in front of their cars. Contrast that with police running over Black Lives Matter protesters. Indeed there have been over 100 vehicular attacks on BLM protesters by police and civilian fascists, with virtually no arrests, including in "liberal" New York City.

The bourgeois radio commentary so far is handwringing and bewildered. Unlike if a mob of progressives or blacks attacked their Capitol. Then the reaction would be enraged, violently vitriolic, and demanding repression. Recall that a number of bourgeois media and political figures called for the assassinations of both Edward Snowden and Julian Assange. So it doesn't take much for trigger establishment violence against those placed on "the left." The right is and has always been treated with kid gloves. That is why bourgeois systems of rule are always at risk of fascist takeover. They are soft on fascism. Indeed they frequently employ it, playing with political fire.

1] Details of the occupation of the Capitol by Trump's stormtroopers is from WBBR radio this afternoon, which is owned by Michael Bloomberg Billionaire.

Trump's Coupists Inside the Congress, Successfully Stopping 

The Certification Of Electoral College Votes by the Legislature.

Biden Claims He's Against the Death Penalty. Here's His Chance To Prove It.

 There are currently 52 prisoners under Federal death sentences. As president, Biden has the power to commute those sentences to life in prison (or any lesser sentence, or even to issue pardons, which exonerates the person and erases the conviction). If he doesn't commute all those death sentences, he'll be proving once again he's a phony and a liar.

Biden may or may not be against the death penalty. But he certainly isn't against killing. He was the leading Democratic Party ally of Republican president Bush the Younger in beating the war drum for invading Iraq (although these days he lies about that well-documented fact). For eight years he was Barack "The Drone Assassin" Obama's vice president. He promoted a strategy of assassination of Taliban and Al-Qaeda figures.

Don't misunderstand me. I'm fine with ridding the world of Islamofascists, who are the worst totalitarian murders around. And the death penalty for serial murderers and mass murderers I think is just and proper and moral.  I do wonder why a person who is a war hawk is against the death penalty. It may be because his church, Roman Catholicism, is against it.

Anyway, if he doesn't commute those 52 Federal death sentences, we'll know he doesn't really mean it.

Dreaming of War.

 

 

Tough On "Crime!" (Meaning on minorities who commit 

street crimes and P.O.W.'s in the "War On Drugs.")

 

Joseph Biden's Pedophiliac Impulses- BANNED BY YOUTUBE

[This is a two-part essay. First I describe youtube's banning of it. Next is the original description that I wrote for it on my youtube channel.

THIS VIDEO CENSORED BY YOUTUBE (GOOGLE-ALPHABET CORP.), WHICH FRAUDULENTLY CLAIMED IT "VIOLATES YOUTUBE POLICY ON SPAM,  DECEPTIVE PRACTICES AND SCAMS." YOUTUBE CLAIMS THESE ARE "COMMUNITY GUIDELINES," AS IF YOUTUBE USERS THEMSELVES SET THE "STANDARDS" AND DO THE CENSORING. THAT'S DECEPTIVE. IT IS A CORPORATE DICTATORIAL IMPOSITION, BY YOUTUBE.

THE VIDEO HAD BEEN UP FOR OVER A YEAR AND HAD OVER 94,000 VIEWS BEFORE YOUTUBE KILLED IT. IT HAD BY FAR THE MOST VIEWS OF ANY VIDEO ON MY CHANNEL. MANY SIMILAR VIDEOS OF BIDEN PHYSICALLY VIOLATING ADULTS AND CHILDREN HAVE BEEN ON YOUTUBE. IN FACT, THE VIDEO THIS CAME FROM IS STILL UP ON YOUTUBE [SEE FOOTNOTE #1].

AS THE VIDEO WAS TAKEN DOWN LESS THAN 2 WEEKS AFTER BIDEN WON THE NOVEMBER 3, 2020 ELECTION, IT WAS OBVIOUSLY DONE EITHER AT THE BEHEST OF DEMOCRATIC PARTY APPARATCHIKS OR TO PREEMPTIVELY APPEASE AND CURRY FAVOR WITH THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY BIDEN REGIME. (I AM NOT A TRUMPITE, I VOTE GREEN PARTY.)

THIS IS THE SECOND TIME YOUTUBE POLITICALLY CENSORED ONE OF MY VIDEOS. PRIOR TO THIS, THEY TOOK DOWN A VIDEO ABOUT ISRAELI GAS ATTACKS ON PALESTINIANS. I APPEALED THAT, AND THEY ADMITTED IT DOES NOT VIOLATE THEIR SO-CALLED "STANDARDS," BUT THEY WERE AGE-RESTRICTING IT- EVEN THOUGH IT IS NOT AT ALL GORY OR VISUALLY HORRIFIC. 

THERE HAVE ALSO BEEN TWO ILLEGAL COPYRIGHT CLAIMS AGAINST MY VIDEOS, IN ONE CASE IGNORING FAIR USE (YOUTUBE LETS OTHER CORPORATIONS DO THE CENSORING IN COPYRIGHT CLAIM CASES, AND JUDGE THE "APPEALS"!)- YOUTUBE'S POLICY IS TO PRETEND FAIR USE DOES NOT EXIST IN U.S. LAW! IN THE OTHER CASE SOME MUSIC INDUSTRY JACKASSES CLAIMED TO OWN THE COPYRIGHT ON DWIGHT EISENHOWER'S MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX SPEECH! (I PREVAILED IN THAT RIDICULOUS CASE OF PURE HARASSMENT.)

YOUTUBE IS A REALLY FUCKED UP PLATFORM AND I WOULD GLADLY MOVE TO A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE, WHICH DOES NOT EXIST. YOUTUBE IS FUNCTIONALLY A MONOPOLY, AS IS FACEBOOK AND TWITTER. SIMILAR SERVICES HAVE TOO SMALL USER BASES TO BE GOOD FOR MUCH.

BIDEN'S PEDOPHILIAC IMPULSES.

Hard to see what other interpretation to put on his constant pawing, stroking, and outright flirting with girls from ages 6 to 13, and older. In one public incident captured on video, he repeatedly kisses a very young girl and whispers "Don't tell anyone." He is constantly stroking the faces and hair of other people's young children whom he has no relationship with. If he's not a pedophile, he's doing a great imitation of one! His behavior looks like classic "grooming" that pedophiles use to lure children into sexual relations.

All the incidents shown in this video occurred in official ceremonies being recorded on camera. One wonders what he has done in PRIVATE!

This is a segment of a video compiled by someone else on youtube. I consider it a public service, regardless of what the political motivation might have been for creating it. (He mentions in passing Trump's infatuation with daughter Ivanka, but not his boasting about grabbing women's vagina, his forcibly kissing them, etc.) Facts are facts, and this is video evidence. [1]

We don't know if Biden has ever in his life crossed the line into outright illegality with a child. Is touching a child's chest where there nipple is, for example, a sex crime?

Here's how I think his molesting of children can cause lasting damage. These girls are being conditioned to submit to and passively accept sexual molestation. In many of these scenes, the victims are the children of adult male politicians who are standing right there smiling broadly and not intervening in any way. One of these creeps is Senator Christopher Coons, who insists it wasn't "creepy" that Biden molested his daughter. What "message" does that send the girl? That she should consider being pawed by men as normal and acceptable. And if one day her passivity in the face of male aggression provides the opportunity for a rapist to lead her into a "compromising" situation, she will feel shame and guilt and blame herself, even though she'd been conditioned to passively submit and not resist male sexual aggression. (Coons is the junior Senator from Delaware, Biden's state. Biden was one of Delaware's two Senators before Obama gifted him to us as vice president for 8 years.)

What is also disgusting is the moral abdication of all the adults standing around with their biggest fake smiles plastered on their faces, willingly subservient to power in the person of Biden. They all pretend Biden is "just being friendly." Denial is one of the hallmarks of a morally corrupt and existentially decayed and decadent society.

In their "compromise" (sellout) to power, these people become accomplices to the crimes of those in power. (A microcosm of the relationship of millions of people to corporate tyranny and U.S. imperialism.)

Biden may prefer underage females, but he doesn't discriminate against adult women, who he also molests. The video references an article about the time Biden cupped the breast of a Secret Service man's adult girlfriend in 2009. The agent is described as shoving Biden and "almost hit" him, and being suspended for a week as a result. [2]

1] The video, "CREEPY UNCLE JOE,"  posted on youtube November 22, 2017, borrowed its title from a Washington Post story, "What are we going to do about Creepy Uncle Joe Biden?,"  2/18/2015. The Washington Post article has a video showing Biden molesting the wife of Ashton Carter DURING A PUBLIC SWEARING-IN CEREMONY!

2] "Ex-Secret Service Agent Claims Biden Engaged In 'Weinstein-Level' Groping," from infowars, admittedly not the most reliable source. But they have reported true information, so maybe...

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Iran Wants Its Worst Enemy, Trump, To Win Reelection. Claims U.S. Secret Police and Establishment Media

Could anything be more absurd? What an obvious lie. Yet that's what they're claiming.

Who is? The U.S. Secret Police combine and the corporate oligarchy's propaganda system, "the media," so-called. 

The lead actor in this piece of political theater is the "Director of National Intelligence," a Trump stooge named John Ratcliffe. Ratchiffe, a political hack and former Republican Congressman and reactionary weasel. According to this latest concoction of the "intelligence community" (the secret police combine) Iran sent spoof emails in the name of the U.S. stormtrooper group Proud Boys, to Democratic Party voters threatening them to vote for Trump.

Trump. Right. Iran wants to help reelect Trump. The guy who tore up the nuclear agreement with Iran, who reimposed sanctions that are strangling the Iranian economy. Who just blockaded the Iranian banking system from the world financial system. The man who is murdering thousands of Iranians by preventing the importation of cancer medicines, of ventilators for COVID-19 patients, of protective equipment like masks. Iran wants to keep him in office so he can do more damage to Iran.

Sure, I believe you, U.S. secret police and your propagandist enablers. 

Ironically, this propaganda campaign, whose theme is alleged election manipulation by foreign enemies, is ITSELF an election manipulation scheme.   

Just to make sure people fall for this pathetic shit, almost all media reports omit the key details. They just say "Iran and Russia are trying to undermine confidence in the election," they're "trying to undermine the legitimacy of the election," and "Iran is sending emails to intimidate voters." 

But they don't say who the emails go to, and what they are trying to do.

How dishonest can you get?

Do you really need any more evidence that U.S. "news" organizatons are in fact propaganda mills, and U.S. "journalists" are propagandists and stooge mouthpieces for the secret polcie and other governemnt operatives to plant disinformation and slanted distortions of reality in the minds of the public?

The trustworthy John Ratcliffe. You believe him, don't you?

Kellyanne Conway Thinks Trump Is Doomed

That's the conclusion I draw from her sudden abandonment of Trump less than 3 months before the presidential election.

The prominent political propagandist and reactionary operative gave only one week public notice of her impending departure from the Trump regime at the end of August.

Conway says the reason she's abruptly leaving is so she can spend more time with her family. That's what politicians always say when they don't want to give the real reason they're giving up a plum job.

Conway's husband, rich rightwing lawyer George Conway, is simultaneously quitting the anti-Trump group he's associated with, "The Lincoln Project." .(He apparently couldn't stomach slithering onto the Trump bandwagon, as his hyper-opportunist wife did.) Kellyanne, while more intelligent than Trump, is like him in that she's a fast-talking bullshit artist. Only she's better at it than he is, thanks to her superior intelligence, which she misuses in the service of evil. And has done her entire adult life. (And probably starting in childhood.)

Kellyanne claims she wants to do more mothering. There may be something to that, insofar as the Conways' 15-year-old daughter Claudia has repeatedly sent cries from the heart into the public space bemoaning her suffering under the oppressive rule of her parents. Her parents barred her from making political comments after she demonstrated that she isn't a reactionary clone of themselves. The fact that George quit his anti-Trump group may be taken as evidence of a parental strategy, although how much time can penning an occasional anti-Trump op-ed take? Presumably George isn't quitting his law practice. Perhaps Kellyanne finagled a deal with Hubby that she's leave the Trump tent if he'd give up his anti-Trump scribbling.

But keep in mind, there can be more than one motive or cause for an action. The "need" to better suppress and brainwash her daughter, and abandoning the sinking Trump ship (as she perceives it), can BOTH be reasons she's abruptly departing the Trump camp. Associating with a loser is not Kellyanne's way. She, again like Trump, has to be a "winner."

Kellyanne Conway is a lifelong reactionary political operative.The early part of her "career" was spent advising rightwing Republicans on how to trick women into voting for the GOP, a party that denies women the right to control their own bodies. She's also a shameless opportunist and a chronic liar. All in all, a loathsome creature who has harmed humanity by her existence.

  

   The Wicked Witch of the White House Went WHOOSH!

For a concise 4 minute synopsis of her "career," including how she latched onto Trump after denigrating him when she was working to try and secure the GOP presidential nomination for the fanatical rightist Ted Cruz, see "Who is Kellyanne Conway – Counselor to the President."

For her infuriating propaganda and gaslighting techniques, see "Kellyanne Conway's interview tricks, explained."

The Big Lie: Police Work Is "Dangerous" (It's Not)

In the U.S. the chances of being murdered if you are a cop is LESS than the chance of being murdered if you are a mere citizen. That is a fact. Policing is NOT a particularly hazardous occupation. Other jobs are MUCH more dangerous. Coal mining. Farming. Commercial fishing. Construction. Working in a meat packing plant. All are MUCH more physically dangerous than being a cop, in terms of serious injuries and deaths. (It is not so rare for people to be maimed for life in those other occupations.  It is exceedingly rare for police to suffer such misfortune.)

Cops spend most of their time sitting in their cars. Doing paperwork in their cop fortresses  is another major use of their time. Chasing "perps" down alleys, like on the repression- porn TV show "Cops," a vile propaganda program, is a minuscule percentage of what they do.

There are close to a million cops in the U.S., and yet only around 50 a year are currently killed by other people while on the job. That is half the average of 100 a year of several decades ago, when there were half as many cops. It was safe then, and now it's four times safer.

Yet cops, their fellow traveling reactionaries and white racist cheerleaders, and most of all the U.S. corporate oligarchy's propaganda system, constantly beat their breasts about how police "risk their lives for us." They raise this rhetorical wall of verbal garbage as a shield whenever there is attempt by mere citizens to criticize their outrageous, repressive behavior. (The corporate oligarchic propaganda system refers to itself as "the media," as if it's the one and only media there is, and is purely neutral and objective with no political character.) Very, very rarely, some police are in potentially dangerous (to themselves) situations. And yes, on rare occasions, one or two get killed. It would be like getting struck by lightning, except getting struck by lightning happens far more often than a cop getting killed occurs.

On the other side of the ledger, U.S. police shoot dead over 1,000 people each and every year in the U.S. Now, presumably these aren't ALL homicides. Surely some of these killings must be justified. And yet, one has to wonder why in other "advanced" countries, like those in Europe, and Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, the number of people shot or shot dead by police is such a tiny fraction of the U.S number.

Police, like all reactionaries, like to pretend they are being persecuted. In their case, criticism of their crimes is the "persecution." They expect praise for their criminal acts, or at least silence (and media cooperation in spreading lies about their conduct). Police in the U.S. are NOT persecuted. In a nation that has systematically attacked and destroyed the union movement for decades reducing organized labor to a shadow of what it once was, police unions are allowed grotesquely exaggerated political power. Even as teachers' unions are under systematic assault by state governments and billionaires and their hired propagandists pushing "charter schools" and vouchers, police unions are treated with the deference usually reserved for the Roman Catholic Pope.

Because of their role as oppressors of the "lower" (i.e. poorer) classes in the U.S., a growing percentage of the population, cops are hated by more and more people. On occasions when public outrage explodes over police atrocities, cops feel genuinely aggrieved and insulted. THEY are outraged that anyone is outraged at THEM instead of profusely THANKING them for murdering someone, for example. Then they and their reactionary defenders and media propagandist enablers start to bleat about how "dangerous" it is to be a cop, how they have to make "split second decisions" or be killed. This is BULLSHIT. Every time they cold-bloodedly murder someone, or brutally beat someone who rubbed them the wrong way (or who merely has the wrong skin pigmentation) or break into homes ot attack people protesting causes the cops despise, they trot out their alleged need to make "split-second decisions" and screech that the second-guessing is HANDCUFFING the police and ENDANGERING THEM by making them hesitant to become instantly violent like a Hell's Angel or a steroid-addled bodybuilder subject to sudden and unprovoked rages. (By the way, many cops ARE 'roided-up goons. And many are violent veterans of the U.S. invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, where they developed a taste for shedding human blood. Or just developed a combat mentality, which they apply to their "police" work, "protecting the serving" the rich and the power structure created by and for the rich.)



Cops are NOT "law enforcers." They are social order enforcers. They are guardians of the existing power structure. This is the single most important thing to understand about the police. Everything they do makes perfect sense once you perceive this fundamental fact.

Since "blacks" are the U.S. equivalent of Indian Dalits, "untouchables," and occupy the bottom status rung in a deeply racist society, and "need" to be "kept in their place," a task in which violence has historically been a central tool, although not the only one, we should not be mystified by "why do they keep killing black people?" If it wasn't desired that they regularly commit such atrocities, the legal and political systems would not PROTECT THEM WHEN THEY DO IT. And the only times they are NOT protected is when there is unrest AND the unrest does not SUBSIDE quickly.

Chinese dictator and "communist" emperor Mao Zedong infamously wrote that "political power flows out of the barrel of a gun." It also sprays from the nozzle of a pepper spray can, a tear gas canister, and sparks off the tips of a taser's barbs. That is, power always ultimately rests on physical force. Without the ability to use physical force to enforce one's will when challenged, there is no power. There may be influence, but not power. Power is the ability to force others to do what you dictate, not do what you ban, or to punish for disobedience.

In the current two weeks and counting nationwide (indeed global) mass protests against the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on March 25, the bourgeois politicians and propagandists have been talking as if they are on the same side as those they oppress. They've been wringing their hands nonstop, Tugging at their chins and wondering how to "fix" the "problem of racism." Meanwhile, the whole time, their police have been violently assaulting the protesters, killing several, and shooting an eye out of at least three people, among other atrocities. But the only "violence" those in power perceive is window-breaking and "looting" by people they insist on tying to the protesters. So as soon as the heat dies down, expect things to be back to business as usual.

Killer cop Derek Chauvin was only indicted after a police station was burned down in Minneapolis. It was only after 8 days or so of national turbulence that Minnesota state Attorney General Keith Ellison, a phony "progressive," took over the case and indicted the other 3 murderers of George Floyd. He is already warning how "hard" it will be to obtain convictions.

Malcolm X once said, "The only thing power understands, IS power." Or in this case, pressure. Pressure from masses of people. Most importantly, most of the demonstrators have been "white." That is new in the Black Lives Matter movement. That is also decisive. Blacks in the U.S. are a small minority, so having allies in the rest of the population is essential.

Ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek "Crusher" Chauvin bravely putting his life on the line to "protect and serve." And ingrates have the nerve to protest! What is the world coming to?

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Coronavirus Causing Global Disease Outbreak Has Mutated- Vaccines Being ...

Researchers have been using the genome sequenced in China to develop vaccines for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the "coronavirus" that causes the disease COVID-19 that has created a global pandemic. It turns out that the version that infected the New York City metropolitan area came from Europe. That strain of the virus is different from the one that originated in China, and is even more contagious than the Chinese virus. 

 

Worse, mutations make the virus a moving target for vaccine developers. 

 

Every year, researchers try to guess which mutations of the virus that caused the flu will be most prevalent, and make vaccines in advance that are intended to immunize people against perhaps 3 of the most worrisome strains. But the effectiveness of flu vaccines in providing immunity varies greatly from year to year. The best years provide 60% effectiveness: the worst, only 10%. Either way, the vaccines are no panacea for the flu. 

 

It looks like the same situation will obtain with this particular coronavirus. And it is more contagious than the flu viruses, and apparently more deadly. Already it has killed over 70,000 people in America, more than die from the flu in a typical flu season. And there is no end in sight. 

 

But stock markets love it. They have been rallying in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. Since stocks bottomed in the U.S. around March 21, stock averages have shot up like rockets. The Nasdaq has recouped all its year to date losses and is back at even. The Dow Jones Industrial average, which at the nadir was down around 30%, is now only 17% below its all time high. This when U.S. unemployment is now at Great Depression levels, and most companies' profits have been wiped out. Irrational exuberance, anyone? 

 

People's misery is celebrated by the stock speculators. 

 

There are articles on the bioRxiv website documenting mutations in the virus dated March 16 and later. See https://www.biorxiv.org/search/sars-cov-2%252Bmutations

 

This video is ranted by self-described "dumb jag-off nightclub comedian" Jimmy Dore. I have mixed feelings about him. On the one hand, he is intemperate and intolerant of different viewpoints from his own, and heaps vituperation at people at the drop of a hat. On the other hand, we need rabble-rousers. He helps direct outrage and hatred at the Democratic Party and its cynical, dishonest politicians. 

 

But he also thinks, correctly, that Trump is awful. So he does a useful service there. But what is possibly a deal killer is the fact that he acts as a propagandist for the Assad regime of Syria. This is really despicable. 

 

In case you didn't know, "jagging off" is slang for masturbation. Other slang terms for that activity are jerking off, beating off, beating one's meat, spanking the money, and hundreds or maybe thousands of expressions in other languages. I wonder if anyone ever published a compendium of such expressions?

 

 

 

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The BBC Lies About The Holocaust

Amazing lie pushed out all over the world this morning by the premier propaganda arm of the British Government, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Bergen-Belsen was a Nazi concentration camp liberated by British troops. According to the BBC this morning, an estimated 50,000 prisoners died there. (That would be from disease, starvation, and execution.) The BBC every half hour stated that "images of piles of bodies and starving inmates were the first evidence to reach the Wet of the horrors of the Holocaust."

No, they were NOT 'the first evidence to reach the West." Not by a long shot. The Allied armies in the West overran concentration camps in Germany in 1945, during the last weeks of the war. But information about what the Germans were doing was known as soon as the organized mass murder began.

In June 1941 Nazi Germany and its fascist allies Italy, Romania, and Hungary (plus Finland) invaded the Soviet Union. There were three extermination units, called Einsatzgruppen, one assigned to each of the invading German army groups. Their task was to follow in the wake of these armies and round up and execute Jews and Communist Party officials. In a few months they managed to murder hundreds of thousands of people. Of course word of this reached the Soviet authorities, who at that point were allied with Britain against Germany. (In December 1941 the U.S. joined the Soviets and British after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and Germany declared war on the U.S.) So this was no secret. [1]

All during the war there was a stream of intelligence report and testimony of refugees, escapees, and spies as to the Nazi extermination program in the camps. On a number of occasions in 1944, various Jewish representatives beseeched the U.S. government to bomb the railroad lines to Auschwitz to interrupt the shipment of Jews from all over Europe into this death camp. The U.S. Army Air Force always refused. [2]

It has been a common theme of Western propaganda that the Allies only found out about the Holocaust at nearly the end of the war. But the actual historical record refutes this completely. Of course the sort of propagandists who work for media companies don't give a damn about actual facts.

Is it really possible that the BBC is so abysmally ignorant of history, or has such a feckless research
research department, that they don't know this? No, it isn't.

This is a political lie to protect the reputations of Britain and the U.S. In a very real sense, these nations were accomplices to the Holocaust. Especially the U.S., which barred Jews fleeing the Nazis from entering the U.S. (At least Britain took in some Jewish children, only insisting that their parents stay behind to be persecuted and ultimately murdered by the Germans and their fascist fellow travelers.)

The BBC isn't the only "Western" "news" organization that lies about the Holocaust. A commemoration of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp, the most notorious of the archipelago of scores of Nazi concentration camps, was recently staged. This political ritual received major promotion in the U.S. corporate media system. A very key fact went completely unmentioned in the broadcast propaganda- namely which army liberated the camp! Of course it was the Red Army. Auschwitz was one of six mass exterminations camps set up to commit mass murder on an industrial scale. All six were set up on conquered Polish territory, apparently to keep them out of sight of the German populace. (The German people were okay with camps on German soil that only murdered thousands or tens of thousands of people.) It was the Red Army that overran Poland from the East, of course, in the drive to Berlin. By going on and on about the liberation while omitting the actual liberators, the clear impression was left that it was the U.S. that did the liberating. This is an example of lying by omission, a common tactic by U.S. establishment propaganda organs.

The BBC has a "history" program they call "Witness." Many of the episodes consist of rehasing anti-Soviet Cold War themes. While not factually incorrect for the most part, it is beating a dead horse. What purpose is served other than ideological indoctrination?

You'd think that now that the Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore, has ceased to exist for almost thirty years, they could let it go. But no.

Another pet peeve of the BBC is the East German Stasi, or secret police. Since East Germany ceased to exist even before the Soviet Union expired, and in any event was a small and not very consequential country, one might wonder about the motive here too. Did the Stasi even kill a few hundred people throughout its existence? On the other hand, the BBC largely ignores the mass murdering death squad regimes created by its U.S. masters, like the one in Guatemala (250,000 murdered), Iran after they installed the Shah as dictator in 1953 (another 250,000), Chile (at least 3,000 plus more outside its borders), or Argentina, encouraged by the U.S., which murdered 30,000 defenseless citizens. And there are others. In fact, right now the Colombian regime is busy murdering political activists and labor organizers. Since the FARC's latest surrender, they have assassinated almost 1,000 people, including many candidates for office. Not a word of this on the BBC.
Naturally the BBC, reflecting the vile position of the government of which it is a part, supports every U.S. coup, including the one in Honduras engineered by Barack "The Drone Assassin" Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and the current ongoing one in Venezuela, just the latest coup attempt there, a criminal campaign that began under Bush the Younger, continued by Obama, and now Donald "Jackass" Trump is carrying the imperialist baton.

Naturally the BBC, reflecting the vile position of the government of which it is a part, supports every U.S. coup, including the one in Honduras engineered by Barack "The Drone Assassin" Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and the current ongoing one in Venezuela, just the latest coup attempt there, a criminal campaign that began under Bush the Younger, continued by Obama, and now Donald "Jackass" Trump is carrying the imperialist baton.

Another thing the BBC is loathe to mention is the UK's support for Saudi Arabia's murderous assault on Yemen, which has caused mass starvation and a cholera epidemic in that country. For good measure, the Saudis are bombing the hospitals there, just as Russia and the Assad regime have systematically attacks the health clinics in territory the regime wants to take over. THAT the BBC reports. (As it should, of course.)


When you see such one-sided "coverage," such a clear double standard, and such obsessive trashing of defunct regimes, that's a tipoff that you are witnessing propaganda.

 

Tony Hall, 16th Director-General of the BBC. According the BBC website, "The Director-General is the Chief Executive Officer of the BBC, its Editor-in-Chief. The DG is the editorial, operational and creative leader of the BBC, with responsibility for a global workforce running services across television, radio and online."

But "Tony" is much MORE than that! He is also "The Right Honourable, The Lord Hall of Birkenhead Life Peerage, CBE," don't you know!

The British ruling class leaves nothing to chance. All key power positions are held by their own kind.

Ridiculous hat, by the way.

1]  Einsatzgruppen at Wikipedia

2]  A few examples of the absurdity of the BBC's lie: "The Polish government-in-exile in London first reported crimes in the Auschwitz complex to the western public in 1941.[1] Information about tortures inside this camp was published in the same year in New York in a government report from occupied Poland titled The Polish White Book[1] The Auschwitz camp was also noted in The Black Book of Poland a 750-page report published in 1942 in New York by the Ministry of Information of the Polish government-in-exile, describing atrocities committed by Germany in occupied Poland in twenty-two months between the invasion of Poland in September 1939, and the end of June 1941. Both were printed in New York by The Greystone Press and G.P. Putnam's Sons[1][2]

"In 1942, Lieutenant Jan Karski reported to the Polish, British and U.S. governments on the situation in occupied Poland, especially the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto and the general systematic extermination of the Poles and Jews nationally. He did not know about the murder by gas, repeating the common belief at the time that deported Jews were being exterminated with electricity.[3] Karski met with the Polish government-in-exile, including the Prime Minister, Władysław Sikorski, as well as with members of political parties such as the Socialist Party, National Party, Labor Party, People's Party, Jewish Labour Bund and Zionist Party. He also spoke to Anthony Eden, the British Foreign Secretary, and included a detailed statement on what he had seen in Warsaw and in Bełżec. In 1943 in London he met the author and journalist Arthur Koestler. He then traveled to the United States and reported to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. FDR reacted to Karski's report by inquiring jokingly into animal rights abuses (specifically, horses). His report was a major source of information for the Allies.[4]  "Auschwitz Bombing Debate," Wikipedia,

For the historical context in the broader framework of anti-Semitism, see "Foundations of Holocaust: Roosevelt's decision to not bomb Auschwitz," Jerusalem Post, February 28, 2013.

As to not bombing the rail lines, to be fair, given the inaccuracy of high-level bombing in those days, the ease and speed with which rail tracks can be repaired, there was good reason not to target rail lines. As to bombing the camp itself, there were prisoners of war there. However air raids were carried out against some of the factories in the sprawling complex, where slave laborers were often worked to death. See "The United States and the Holocaust: Why Auschwitz Was Not Bombed," Holocaust Encyclopedia of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Reality Finally Forces Trump To Bend To Its Will

Donald Trump has lived in a solipsistic bubble of his own creation, a narcissistic virtual reality, most of his life. He even denies science, the hardest of hard truths, reality at its most certain, when it comes to global warming.

But apparently his "genius" mind has met its match in medical science, epidemiology, and the modeling of disease spread. (Climate change models are just bunk, however, according to Republicans.)

Trump spent the first few months of the coronavirus pandemic spewing fatuous guff claiming everything was fine and he and his bureaucratic lackeys and sycophants were doing a great job, as always. He announced that all would be well by Easter (early April) and the economy would get back to normal.

"Everything looks sunny to ME! 

But apparently the data- the numbers- wore him down. Trump in his career as a real estate hustler, bank and investor defrauder, and overall scammer and grifter, has needed to be able to grasp numbers to pull off his con jobs. So numbers he understands.

And the numbers on the spread of coronavirus, and the piling up of dead bodies, are grim and set to get much grimmer, Possibly much, much grimmer. This has caused a noticeable change in Trump's tone during his press performances. He's had to admit that things are actually bad, and set to get worse. He was forced to alter his Back-To-Normal timetable to the end of April. (Still far too optimistic.)

  

"Reality- what a bummer! What did I do to deserve this?"

Even though he brays that he's the World's Greatest Expert on just about everything (rather like his North Korean counterpart, with whom he has had an on again off again bromance with), he's not too proud to turn to experts to advise him on what to do. Amazingly, some of these experts, like Fauci and Birx, medical professionals, have even been allowed to speak at length during Trump's press appearances. The fact that he is willing to risk being upstaged is perhaps a sign of his desperation. 

Two of the main props on which Trump was basing his reelection- the raging bull stock market and the "good" economy, have now both come crashing down big time. We hardly ever hear about The Wall anymore- maybe Trump felt he'd worn out that shtick- and he never did lock up Hillary Clinton (who actually deserves to be executed for her crimes against humanity, forget about hiding the email record of her activities as Barack "The Drone Assassin" Obama's Secretary of State in a private, secret computer server- so what does Trump have to run on? His mediocre performance dealing with the covid-19 pandemic. (The disease caused by the coronavirus- an acronym for coronavirus 2019.)\

What has totally absorbed not just the media's attention, but the populace's too- as already about a third are forced to stay at home deprived of income-- is this menacing microorganism that is relentlessly spreading disease and death to an mushrooming number of people. And Trump is ill-equipped personally to rise to the occasion. (Contrast his performance with those of New York State governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City mayor Bill de Blasio, neither of whom I have any use for otherwise, but they're doing the job, providing leadership both in action and in addressing the public daily.)

"OH GOD NO DON'T LET THIS VIRUS COST ME MY REELECTION!!"

 

But the odds are that Trump will win regardless. Joe Biden is a horrible politicians and a fatally vulnerable candidate. And amazingly, in polls, the majority approve of the job he's doing in the pandemic!! Even though, for just one example, he's currently hoarding 10,000 ventilators, necessary to try and save the lives of critically ill patients, even though Cuomo and de Blasio have been publicly pleading for weeks for more ventilators, and 3,000 are needed in New York City next week. When questioned about the hoarded ventilators by a reporter, Trump responded that he need to have "flexibility" as to where to send them. (Translation: screw states that aren't voting for him.)

How could anyone be impressed by the job this lifelong grifter and ripoff artist is handling this crisis? The hopelessness of changing the U.S. for the better ultimately lies in the fact that a majority are cretins and many of those are racists and reactionaries.

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Give Yourself a Break From Worrying About Coronavirus! Enjoy Warrior In Woolworth's By Poly Styrene and X-Ray Spex!

"Everybody knows that the plague is coming, and Everybody knows that it's moving fast"
-Leonard Cohen, "Everybody Knows."


Afraid the viruses are gonna getcha? Well pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and check out this performance of "Warrior In Woolworths" by X-Ray Spex featuring Poly Styrene, Live in London, the year, 2008.


A classic "underground" hit by the band X-Ray Spex. The lead singer, Poly Styrene, a free-spirited songbird, existed all too briefly.


The crowd of happy mushrooms bounces as they're swept along by the music, an example of life enjoying itself.


I like the unusual camera angle here. It displays the dynamism of the drummer by putting him in the foreground. We hover above and behind his shoulder, watching the scene as if from an aerie.
Look, we're all mortal beings and we're all gonna die someday, sometime, of something. So don't sweat it.


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2020 Presidential Election Now Guaranteed To Prevent Any Change In The U.S. System

Well, the dominant bourgeois elites have gotten their way once again, as they always do in all their elections.

There will be no chance of systemic change resulting from whoever wins in November.

The conservative [1] Joseph R. Biden, Jr., a man with a pro-school segregation past, a man who ranted at his staff that he wanted to have a reputation as "tough on crime" (code for tough on blacks) and lived up to it by playing key roles in passing draconian laws through Congress, a man who added to the power of banks and credit card companies at the expense of the people of the U.S., who protected Clarence Thomas on his way to Supreme Court confirmation, a man who whipped Democratic Senators into line on Bush's invasion of Iraq- has now been anointed the winner of the Democratic Party presidential nomination with less than half the needed 1991 delegates.

Anointed by the corporate media and the Democratic Party establishment.

This is who the Democratic Party poohbahs covertly designated as the nominee months ago, just as they covertly designated Hillary Clinton in 2016. And how his nomination seems assured.iIth his victories in yesterday's primaries, Biden is on a glide path to victory over Senator Bernard "Bernie" Sanders. With the media ballyhooing his lead and his "momentum," many voters in the remaining primaries, sheeplike, will fall into line behind Biden, much like iron filings pulled by a magnet.

The establishment has all but declared Biden the nominee.



On the radio network owned by Michael Bloomberg Billionaire, the announcers claimed Biden has "an all but insurmountable lead" over the hated Sanders. (Biden has about 800 delegates now, Sanders 666 or so. 1991 are needed to win the nomination. Most of the almost 800 "superdelegates," party insiders and venal lobbyists chosen by the party, will also be for Biden. Every Democratic member of Congress and member of the Democratic National Committee are superdelegates.)

The notorious Jame Carville, who makes a living helping reactionaries in other countries "win" elections, called for cancelling the remainder of the primaries, declaring "This thing is over, it's time to shut this thing down!" Congressman James Clyburn, who herded the black primary voters of South Carolina into Biden's corral, called for no more Democratic debates.

After the previous round of primaries, Peter Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, and even "Beto" O'Rourke, who had dropped out of the race long ago, almost simultaneously endorsed Biden, smacking of a conspiracy. Michael Bloomberg Billionaire did likewise, A few days ago, erstwhile candidates Kamala Harris and Cory Booker declared for Biden. The corporate propaganda system made sure to repeatedly broadcast their words.

Sanders only ever offered the illusion of the possibility of fundamental change. Seeking change via Sanders was like chasing the rainbow. It looks beautiful off in the distance, but you cannot ever grasp it. Sanders was always a political lone ranger, rejecting Ralph Nader's urging to form a caucus with other "progressive" Senators. [2]

Sanders has a comfortable relationship with the Democratic Party, which he is always at pains not to jeopardize. This is his fatal compromise with power. Thus in both his campaigns for president, he has treated his Democratic Party opponents for the nomination with kid gloves, and loyally thrown his full-throated support to the winners; Clinton in 2016, and this time it will be Biden.

The problem of how to change America is devilishly tricky, and worthy of a separate essay. The obstacles are enormous. To even seriously attempt it is actually a life-threatening endeavor, thanks to the murderous nature of this system.


The irony of Biden's apparent victory is that Biden has a lot in common with Trump- both are bullies, egotists, liars, and racists. Both men get violently angry when confronted with challenging questions or situations. We've seen this numerous times during the current Biden campaign. For more details, see "How Joe Biden and Donald Trump Are The Same."

                               Pick which corporate-protecting imperialist you want, this is a democracy!

1]  I call Biden a conservative because he is a man dedicated to preserving the status quo. That is what conservatism actually means. I do not use the gaslighting propaganda political terminology of U.S. elites and their foreign lackeys. They use "conservative" as a euphemism for reactionary, to make noxious rightwing ideology and politics respectable and honorable, when it is antithetical to human values. And "ultraconservative" is their code word for fascist.

A bourgeois politician who is pragmatic and rational is labeled "liberal." Thus Senator Elizabeth Warren's sensible desire to regulate big financial institutions in ways that prevent them from being a threat to the stability of the capitalist system is deemed "liberal" or worse.

Neoliberal corporatist imperialists are called "moderate" or "centrist," meaningless terms in themselves.

2]  See "Bernie Sanders snubs Ralph Nader 15 years. 'Progressive' Senators refuse to unite."

Michael Bloomberg Billionaire's Very Expensive Ego Trip Ends in Humiliation

World's Eight Richest Man spends over half a BILLION dollars ($500,000,000+, five hundred millions) on advertising to try and buy the presidency of the U.S.and only wins the Democratic Primary in American Samoa. And has to share the spoils with Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, who gets one delegate from Am. Samoa. Bloomberg promptly drops out of the running. (At the same time "endorsing" Joe Biden, for what that's worth. I'd reckon not much.)

"Hey Mini Mike, you're a Loser!" [The goon with the shaved head on the right is Bernard Kerik, erstwhile henchman to Rudolph Giuliani, convicted felon whose crimes were just wiped off the books by a presidential pardon from Donald Trump.]

In the first and only debate with the other contenders for the Democratic Party nomination for president, Bloomberg showed himself woefully unprepared to mix it up with people who weren't sycophantic towards him. For years, Bloomberg has been surrounded by courtiers, opportunists, fawning "journalists" (propagandists of the capitalist system) and people sucking up to him in hopes of scoring a handout. So when Elizabeth Warren asked him pointed, predictable questions about the awful sexism inside his company, and his personal misogyny, he was flummoxed. Nor has he been successful in whitewashing his blatantly racist police repression of black and Latino males, the massive violation of Constitutional rights by the "stock and frisk" program which saw 5 million illegal street frisks in New York City, which Bloomberg ruled for 12 years as a Republican mayor. (One in a thousand of these degrading, brutalizing attacks on minority males results in finding a weapon. Many more found marijuana, justifying an arrest.) A Federal judge eventually found the practice illegal, as they were not based on a particularized suspicion of those being thrown up against walls and having their pockets gone through. They were targeted by race.

The smarmy chair of the Democratic National Committee, Tom Perez, did nothing to adjust his candidate debate rules to prevent the elimination of both black candidates (Kamala Harris and Cory Booker), the sole Latino, and the only Asian (Yang), but changed the rules to allow Bloomberg to participate in a debate, by removing the minimum requirement to score a certain percentage in polls, and to have a certain number of donors. Bloomberg was allowed to have just one donor- himself. He'd have been better off if Perez had kept him off that debate stage!

Dependable Party apparatchik Perez is applauded by his master.

Now with his mountain of loot (estimated around $60 billion) half a billion lighter, Bloomberg can go back to buying influence and puff piece "reporting" about himself. The man showed off his vanity, conceit, and self-regard, insisting he and he alone could take on Trump, he and he alone was competent to run the U.S.

Apparently his self-vaunted competency didn't transfer to running a campaign for president. But the various "consultants" and media "experts" and operatives can smile at their newly-swollen bank accounts, as can the media companies that ran his ads.

Now the Democratic Party and its corporate media allies are going to shove Joe "I Love How Your Hair Smells!" Biden down our throats. Unless Bernie Sanders goes to the convention with an absolute majority of delegates, he's finished. The 700 or so "Superdelegates"- party hacks and lobbyists primarily- are solidly machine loyalists who will go almost 100% for Biden. Elizabeth Warren hasn't done better than third in any state so far, including in her home state, Massachusetts, which she currently represents in the U.S. Senate! (Peter Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar dropped out on successive days and immediately endorsed Biden, an obvious sign of a conspiracy by the Democratic Party hierarchy and rich donors. Only Tulsi Gabbard, who is totally marginal, is left along with Warren, Biden, and Sanders.)

Here are your choices under bourgeois "democracy." Now VOTE!

Biden spent his years in the Senate fighting school integration, passing draconian "crime" bills that made the U.S. the number one prisoner in the world- with 4.5% of the world's population the U.S. has 25% of the total global prison population!- greased the skids for the awful Clarence Thonas to score a lifetime perch on the Supreme Court, pushed hard for the Bush regime invasion of Iraq, assiduously promoted the interests of big banks and credit card companies at the expense of everybody else, and much more awfulness.

For how loathsome the segregationist, warmongering, tool of finance, mass imprisoner of blacks Biden is, type "Biden" in the search box on this webpage. Also see video Joseph Biden's Pedophiliac Impulses.

By the way, it's obvious from his confusion, garbled speech patterns, and incredible memory lapses as he's been campaigning (can't remember Obama's name at times) that Biden is in the early stages of senility. It's Reagan redux if he's elected.

Joseph Biden doesn't dwell on what he has wrought.

How Joe Biden and Donald Trump Are The Same

Both are aggressive bullies who fly into rages when challenged on sensitive subjects. In the case of Trump, the documentation could fill several tomes. With Biden we've seen it whenever a journalist has dared raise the subject of his son Hunter Biden's incredible deal with Ukrainian gas company Burisma, obtained while Biden was vice president of the U.S. and the Obama regime's point man on Ukraine. Hunter was appointed to the corporate board with "compensation" of $50,000 a month, "earning" a total of $3 MILLION over his five year term. The only reason Hunter left the board, by his own admission in a television interview, was because of the harmful appearance it created as his Dad ran for president. Father Joe bullies reporters by shouting them down until they drop it. We also have videos of BIden's reaction to citizens who raise the issue politely. He lashed into one such unfortunate gentleman by calling him a "liar" and "fat" and challenging him to a push-up contest. On another occasion a Democrat tried to broach the issue of climate change and Biden testily told him to vote for somebody else. This was a man who said he'd vote for Biden!

Both are chronic liars. Trump lies more frequently, and more obivously. But many of Biden's lies are also quite obvious.

Both lie consciously. Biden's staff has on several occasions that have been reported in power establishment media, privately told him things he was saying publicly were not true, and he just kept saying them anyway- proving he's a conscious liar. Here's one example:

 

And this from a guy who opposed school integration and whose best buddies in the Senate were the worst arch-segregationists of the Deep Southf! Most galling.

Biden has variously claimed to have been in Afghanistan and Iraq "28 times," "29 times," and "over 30 times." His staff, and thus definitely Biden himself, know those are fibs:

Joseph R. Biden, Jr., is a Great Storyteller in the mold of Ronald Wilson Reagan. That is to say, he shamelessly fabricates emotionally manipulative tales. Like Reader's Digest magazine, the stories are crafted to provoke certain feelings in the unsophisticated portions of the populace. Also like the aforementioned rag, and the fascist racist Reagan, there is an underlying reactionary agenda most of the time.

One story Biden has been feeding the credulous crowds of his supporters as he campaigns for president has a tenuous connection to reality. It involves his allegedly pinning a medal on a military member. Only the way he tells it, he either has a terrible memory, or he's a virtually uninhibited liar and bullshit artist. As the version he's been reciting in a heartfelt style has been consistent in each telling, we can exclude memory problems as the explanation.

Here the Washington Post gives priority to the fact that the tale Biden tells as he tries to manipulate people into making him president is "moving," but false. So they genuflect to the military, and give Biden props for telling a "moving" story. In other words, they praise the con. Because if someone is moving you with falsehoods, that's a con job. It's a cynical emotional ripoff, at the very least, and if he takes your money or your vote, he's adding iinjury to insult.

And the Man Who Would Be President is lying to get his hands on the levers of power. What might such an unethical and ruthless person do with the power? Clearly he cannot be trusted.

Except the power establishment WANTS Biden to win. He's "moderate," unlike the extremists Sanders and Warren.

In his self-aggrandizing War Story, Biden didn't just get one or two facts wrong, or some minor ancillary details. Every important fact was flatly false. 

NBC "News" is even worse in soft-pedaling Biden's chronic mendacity. They deem his cynical story "inaccurate," when the correct description is "pack of lies." Here, I'll show you:

"Appears to be incorrect." That's from the Post story. At least the headline wasn't so mealy-mouthed, and correctly called it "false." But it wasn't because Biden was honestly mistaken. You don't get EVERYTHING wrong by ACCIDENT unless you are in advanced senility. Here's some of what NBC and the Post deem to be "inaccurate" and (apparently) "incorrect":

[Washington Post, August 29, 2919.]

They put the most self-serving of Biden's lies last, "his own role in the ceremony." That's the most important part of the story Biden is flogging, in terms of Biden impressing those he's duping with his lies.

But with Trump, the Washington Post and various broadcast media (especially NBC's MSNBC) are willing to call a spade a spade and call many of Trump's lies "a lie." The Post even keeps a running tally of what it deems Trump's "lies." Although that list of putative falsehoods probably includes things Trump actually believes, which means they aren't lies, but are false.

Both men are egomaniacs. In Trump's case, there are also obvious narcissistic personality traits.

Both treat other people as inferiors whom they can abuse to indulge their own impulses. 

Trump has a record as a sexual predator, something he has even boasted about. Biden has a thoroughly documented history of molesting women by inappropriate touching, stroking, grabbing, and sniffing. He also does this to children of both genders.   [1]

Politically, both are reactionaries who completely support U.S. corporate oligarchy, bourgeois class dictatorship, U.S. imperialism, and a grotesquely swollen military industrial complex that enforces all of the preceding.

This is the choice of candidates for president in 2020 that the Democratic Party poohbahs and the corporate propaganda system (aka "the media") want to force on the American voting public.

Unfortunately most people are sheep. Being ovine, they won't even vote for the alternatives on the ballot, such as the progressive Green Party or the Libertarian Party, the party of laissez-faire capitalism. Until that changes, there is no hope for improvement in the structure of U.S. society.

Meanwhile, the people in the rest of the world will have to establishment governments in their own nations committed to opposing U.S. global domination. Of course, where that has happened, the U.S. has made sure to overthrow such governments, as it has done in Bolivia and Ecuador most recently, and has it has been trying to do in Venezuela under the current president and his two predecessors. (Trump, Barack "The Drone Assassin" Obama, and George W. "The 9/11 Mass Murderer" Bush.) Too bad Europeans are too feckless to make the necessary changes in their own countries.

1] To watch video of just some of the many times Biden has used other people as objects for his own gratification, see Joseph Biden's Pedophiliac Impulses.

For more on Biden, see Latest Whopping Trump-Level Lie by Joe Biden (this one is truly unbelievable);"No One Is Above The Law," Except Untouchable Joe Biden; and Joseph Biden Is ACTUALLY Guilty Of What Adam "Shifty" Schiff Accuses Trump Of. For Biden's segregationist history, type the word "Biden" in the search box on my blog webpage.