Monday, February 17, 2025

Roy Cohn | 60 Minutes Archive

Viktor Orbán Has Eroded Democracy in Hungary. Now He’s Being Embraced by...

Viktor Orban's 'illiberal democracy' - BBC Newsnight

Hungary’s Orbán gives Trump an “illiberal” roadmap for American conserva...

"Are We Sleepwalking into Autocracy?" Trump Embraces Authoritarian Playb...

“The Apprentice”: New Film Opens Despite Trump’s Attempts to Block Anyone from Seeing It

Congo, Jazz & the CIA: Oscar-Nominated “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” Revisits Lumumba Assassination

Thursday, January 30, 2025

Hartmann Report:TRUMP LOST. Vote Suppression Won.

A guest post by Greg Palast for the Hartmann Report

Trump lost. That is, if all legal voters were allowed to vote, if all legal ballots were counted, Trump would have lost the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia. Vice-President Kamala Harris would have won the Presidency with 286 electoral votes. 


See the full report here:

 https://hartmannreport.com/p/0ef5118a-d23b-4842-8ebc-da9b578f73fc




'Shafted' Blacks Out Of Votes: Greg Palast EXPOSES How 'Jim Crow Trickery' Cost Kamala Harris 2024

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Evilgelicals have hijacked the Christian Evangelical Part of America





 Evilgelicals have hijacked the Christian evangelical part of America. 


They were the slave holders when the country was founded. 


The Industrialists that had to be countered during industrial age when workers had no rights...and there were twelve hour work days, seven days a week. When Children had to work as opposed to go to school. 


There was no unemployment insurance or national health insurance plans. Employers could (and still do) make people keep jobs that they hate in order to have health insurance. THIS IS WHY THEY WANT TO DESTROY MEDICARE AND MEDICADE AND THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT...OBAMA CARE!


The Democratic and Republican Parties have failed to properly educate their constituents, members and citizens...of the truth about America and American foreign policy. There are no indoctrinations that pass down a truth from generation to generation...to cultivate ethical, caring, responsible and citizens. 


Instead, we get mythical fantasy stories.....instead of viewing history through the lenses of Cherokee, Choctaw, Maya, Africans, Persians, Spanish, Inca, Irish, German, Jewish, ....and on and on.... AND THEN...LET OUR DECENDENTS DECIDE ON THE TRUTH...instead of being told what to believe. Teach our kids HOW TO THINK....not what to think. THAT WOULD BE AN EDUCATION. 


We need the HONEST pursuit of justice ....and liberty for all....the ETHICAL not moral ...honest pursuit. Morality is subjective...Ethics.. more universal. 


Ethical thinking involves what MOST people feel. Most of us do not want someone to take our car or deny our spouse or kids.....medical treatment. In one nation...it may be ok to have 15 spouses. In another...it may be .....immoral.


Many of you are not getting it. We need to exit this zeitgeist of deceit.  


There is no Santa Clause and it is time you faced this fact and stopped indoctrinating your kids with the stupid fables....that indoctrinate young people to fall into the same....spiritually bankrupt beliefs. To be indoctrinated into the same ignorant rituals ... that originate in pure evil.


Secular people must be active and stop allowing media and government forces to exclude us from the agenda. A broad coalition of secular, humanistic, evangelical, Christian, Muslim, Siks, ....atheists.... native....EVERYONE......must be formed...as in the inception of this nation.....and advance one nation, under ethical guidance, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.


The Democratic Party, by making the Gay/Trans AND WOMEN'S movement its' FACE instead of one its' most important contingents....failed to adequately build a big tent to encompass the plight of the Palestinians...Young Men......and Women....AND the Women in THEIR lives...and we lost a lot of ground .... gained through blood shed, sweat and tears. 


My grandfather was left at the front lines in Italy,..... with no reinforcements and resupply of ammunition and supplies... fighting Axis forces during WWII.

Black American soldiers were forced to use the back door to eating facilities...while German prisoners of war were allowed in the front door and treated with better dignity.



A White supremacist has taken over the Pentagon. He has White Supremacist tattoos all over his body....he wants the confederate general names to be reattached to the military bases across the United States.

The Air Force story of the Tuskegee Airmen was one of the first things he took down on official U.S. Air Force sites.

We can fight back. As citizen journalists. Collecting facts on Blogs and Social media. Participating in and producing Podcasts, Zoom videos and YouTube Videos......Blogtalk Radio and Skype communications...Let's get busy.   



Friday, August 16, 2024

Understanding Project 2025 Part 1

 


Project 2025 is a danger to our freedoms and the most threatening that I have seen in my life time.

I proposes the destruction of the U.S. government. We would be given theistic government, similar to Iran or Saudi Arabia or ....Israel where theists would have power and the executive branch would operate like a dictator.

A small number of people believe that the know what is best for America. A racist and homophobic power base would be established with these features:

1. No one would be able to say or write anything that makes White people feel guilty about slavery, oppression or any other colonial actions.

2. Interracial marriage would be outlawed.

3. Soon after the election of 2024, anyone who resists could be killed.

4. Civil Servants would be fired and replaced by loyalists (people loyal to the President.

5. There would be no more elections.

6. Government agencies like the EPA, Homeland Security, Department of Education and others would be abolished.

7. There would be no abortions for ANY reason ...even if the mother would die.

8. Military police could be used against civilians.

9. Christian law would rule the land (Heritage Foundation version of it out of 61,000 versions).

10. Death sentences would be carried out swiftly (no screwing around with lengthy appeals ...further, how many times has the Innocence Project found people were innocent?)

11. MEDICARE, SOCIAL SECURITY, UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE, LABOR RIGHTS WOLD BE DESTROYED.

12. A killing spree of opponents would be initiated against anyone opposed to this plan or who spoke out.

13. The Federal Trade Commission and Consumer Financial Protection Agencies would be abolished. No more freedom of the press and speech.

14. There are 925 pages of this and another TOP SECRET section are in place but not available to the public.

15. WE MUST NOT ALLOW DONALD TRUMP TO BE ELECTED. THESE CONSPIRITORS MUST BE ARRESTED AND TRIED FOR SEDITION.

Friday, March 22, 2024

“Anti-Zionism Is Not Antisemitism”: Palestinian Prof. Shalhoub-Kevorkian on Hebrew Univ. Suspension


“Towers of Ivory and Steel”: Jewish Scholar Says Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom


 

Religious Freedom Gone Too Far: The Story of Kate Cox Should Horrify Us All


Texas Woman Denied Abortion for Nonviable Fetus, Flees State, “One of Thousands” in Similar Position

A Texas woman has had to flee to another state to have an emergency abortion after the state Supreme Court ruled against her. Kate Cox fled Monday after she had petitioned a judge to get an exemption from the state’s near-total abortion ban when her fetus was diagnosed with a fatal condition and doctors warned her carrying to term could endanger her fertility. “Unfortunately, it’s one of hundreds, if not thousands, of comparable stories,” says Dr. Bhavik Kumar, an abortion provider in Texas. “While these politicians say there are exceptions, somebody really has to be at death’s door before we can reasonably act in their favor.” We also speak with Tamarra Wieder, Kentucky state director for Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates, who says the Texas case could have a “chilling effect” on people seeking abortions elsewhere in the country, including in Kentucky, where a pregnant woman is the lead plaintiff in a new class-action lawsuit that argues the state’s ban on abortion violates its constitution. “These laws, restrictions and attacks don’t happen in a vacuum,” says Wieder.


Island of Access: VP Harris Visits MN Abortion Clinic in Historic First Amid Growing Restrictions

 In what is believed to be the first time a president or vice president has publicly toured an abortion clinic, Vice President Kamala Harris visited a Planned Parenthood location in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on Thursday. The visit was the latest in a nationwide tour by Harris to highlight reproductive rights. In her remarks outside the clinic, she lauded Minnesota’s efforts to protect abortion rights in the face of what she describes as a “very serious health crisis,” with restrictive laws and outright abortion bans in more than a dozen states. Clinics in Minnesota have seen a drastic rise in appointments for reproductive healthcare as one of the last remaining access states in the region, says our guest Megan Peterson, who adds that it is “really important” that the Biden team not take pro-abortion voters “for granted.” Peterson is the executive director of Gender Justice Action, a reproductive rights group working in Minnesota and North Dakota. We also speak to professor Michele Goodwin, who calls the consequences of state-level abortion bans since Dobbs v. Jackson a “trail of horrors” that are “antithetical” to science, health and human rights.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/15/kamala_harris_abortion_reproductive_rights_2024?jwsource=cl


Monday, March 11, 2024

This is Why People are Fleeing Here. They are not Immigrating

 



This is why people are fleeing here. They are not immigrating

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was found guilty of cocaine trafficking Friday after a two-week trial in a New York federal court, where prosecutors accused Hernández of ruling the Central American country as a narco-state and accepting millions of dollars in bribes from cocaine traffickers in exchange for protection. He faces a possible life sentence. Hernández served as president of Honduras from 2014 to 2022 and was a close U.S. ally despite mounting reports of human rights violations and accusations of corruption and involvement with drug smuggling during his tenure. Hernández was arrested less than a month after his term ended and was extradited to the United States in April 2022. “The majority feeling is satisfaction, a feeling of progress in achieving justice,” says activist Camilo Bermúdez from Tegucigalpa. He is a member of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras, the organization founded by Berta Cáceres, the Lenca Indigenous environmental defender who was assassinated in 2016 while Juan Orlando Hernández was president. We also speak with Dana Frank, professor of history emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who says the 2009 U.S.-backed coup against President Manuel Zelaya set the stage for the corrupt governments that followed. While U.S. prosecutors may have convicted Hernández, Frank stresses that multiple U.S. administrations “legitimated and celebrated him.”

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/11/juan_orlando_hernandez?jwsource=cl


Dictator Invited to Speak at Republican Events


You Must Watch this Video to Truly Understand What is Happening in Gaza

 



You Must Watch this Video to Truly Understand What is Happening in Gaza

“The Trauma Is Immeasurable”: Palestinian Writer Susan Abulhawa on Israeli Violence in Gaza“The Trauma Is Immeasurable”: Palestinian Writer Susan Abulhawa on Israeli Violence in Gaza

Palestinian novelist, poet and activist Susan Abulhawa recently returned from two weeks in the Gaza Strip, where she witnessed firsthand the destruction and misery wrought upon the territory and its people by Israel’s relentless assault.

Abulhawa spoke with Democracy Now! last Wednesday from Cairo and said “the trauma is immeasurable” for the Palestinians in Gaza. Abulhawa describes hearing stories of abuse, humiliation and torture at the hands of Israeli soldiers as people struggle to find basic necessities to survive. “The degradation is total,” says Abulhawa. “And on top of that, they’re bombed, day in and out.”

Toddlers are having their legs shot intentionally, People are forced to walk long distances with their ID’s and hands in the air…if they drop them or look down, they are shot by snipers. Women are stripped of their clothing and forced to lay in the winter cold on the ground with infrared sights trained on their bodies while bullits hit them at random. Babies left in incubators unattended because exhausted health care workers cannot get to them.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/11/susan_abulhawa?jwsource=cl


Thursday, February 22, 2024

Alabama Supreme Court Rules Frozen Fertilized Embryos are People

 Reproductive center worker dropped a container of frozen fertilized embryos accidentally destroying them. The potential parents sued the center for wrongful deaths. The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen fertilized embryos are children. This destructive ruling has resulted in frozen embryos that NEVER can be destroyed....without murder or manslaughter charges being filed. That means that frozen embryos must be stored...forever....and...families must pay for storage ...forever....defective frozen fertilized embryos have been routinely destroyed. Now...they cannot be...and must be stored forever. Other states are now considering inacting similar laws.

The Alabama Chief Justice cited bible verses during his reading of the judgement ....in defiance of separation of church and state.
Theists must be removed from office.
We must vote Republicans out of office to preserve women's reproductive rights. Their positions defy science and place unjust situations on families all over the nation.

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Doctor Just Back from Gaza: Cutting UNRWA Funds Is “Unconscionable” as Hospitals Barely Functional

“Unconscionable”: American Pediatrician Who Worked in Gaza Hospital Recalls Horrors of Israel’s War

“Incandescent” with Rage: Matt Duss on Voter Anger over Biden Support for Netanyahu & Gaza Assault

Dissent Grows Inside Biden Administration over Gaza Policy as Blinken Holds Talks in Middle East

“No Ceasefire, No Votes”: Arab American Support for Biden Plummets over Gaza Ahead of 2024 Election

Dearborn Mayor to Biden: “Lives of Palestinians Should Not Be Measured Simply in Poll Numbers"

“The Houthis Are Not Iranian Proxies”: Helen Lackner on the History & Politics of Yemen’s Ansar Allah

Israel’s Use of Starvation as a Weapon of War Brings Gaza to the Brink of Famine

After Losing Nearly 100 Relatives in Gaza, Palestinian American Doctor Refuses to Meet with Blinken

“Origin”: Ava DuVernay’s New Film Dramatizes “Caste,” from U.S. Racism to India’s Dalits to Nazi Germany