The Last Thing GOP Senate Candidates Want is a Vote on Valid Ratification of the ERA prior to 11/8/2022 The linked article relates to U.S. House bipartisan joint resolution (twice passed) declaring the ERA validly ratified and how the ratification will help protect abortion rights. The related S.J.Res.1 has been cosponsored by almost all Democratic/Independent Senators, including Senators Manchin and Sinema, as well as GOP Senators Collins and Murkowski; for a total of 51 Senators. With fifty-one votes, the ... 3 |
Opinion: Does the U.S. need a West Point for tech-savvy civil servants?
This is the scariest thing I've read in a long, long time. Imagine a brainwashed cadre of "Googleheads" dedicated to monitoring everything you do on the internet and empowered to delete, modify, or promote it; or prosecute you for whatever imagined offense.
For every Danny Sjursen that graduates from the Military Academies, there are dozens who enjoy participation in the murder of innocents and following... |
Who Are the "Covid-19 Conspiracy Theorists"? During the first few months of the pandemic, a broad movement coalesced online. At the most extreme end were outright Covid deniers, those who believed that the virus didn’t exist and the pandemic had been fabricated. At the other were Covid sceptics or anti-lockdowners, those who thought that the numbers were exaggerated or that the government had an ulterior motive for restricting freedoms. Over the past year, these v... 16 |
Charles Eisenstein: "We Are Past Democracy Now" As a writer who has for the last twenty years upheld countercultural views on many issues, I face a dilemma. The evidence I can cite to buttress my views is fading from the knowledge commons. The sources I might use to undermine dominant narratives are illegitimate precisely because they undermine dominant narratives. The guardians of the internet enforce this illegitimacy through a million means: algorithmic suppression, ten... 5 |
House Democrats, Targeting Right-Wing Cable Outlets, Are Assaulting Core Press Freedoms
Not even two months into their reign as the majority party that controls the White House and both houses of Congress, key Democrats have made clear that one of their top priorities is censorship of divergent voices. On Saturday, I detailed how their escalating official campaign to coerce and threaten social media companies into more aggressively censoring views that they dislike — including by summoning social media CEO... 4 |
What Biden Should Do Now About Trump President Joe Biden should follow his own sage advice from the statement he released hours after the "not guilty" vote by 43 Republican senators in Donald Trump's impeachment trial led to his acquittal. Biden implored us to be vigilant in protecting our "fragile" democracy and noted that "each of us has a duty and responsibility as Americans, and especially as leaders, to defend the truth and to defeat the lies." ... 1 |
Reinstate the Fairness Doctrine: to Remedy the Cancer that Enabled the Cancer of Trumpism In 1969, The SCOTUS "ruled unanimously that the Fairness Doctrine was not only constitutional but essential to democracy. The public airwaves should not just express the opinions of those who can pay for airtime; they must allow the electorate to be informed about all sides of controversial issues." Congress attempted to codify the Fairness Doctrine, with a House Yea-Nay Vote of 302 – 102 and a Senate Yea-Nay ... 2 |
Nicholas Lemann: What a Functioning Democracy Would Look Like In society, interest groups, political parties, an independent and varied press, and organizations that conduct policy research and advocacy are all essential actors in American democracy. It can be tempting to dream of a false ideal of democracy, one that either pursues the public interest without interference, or that always operates in accordance with the will of the people. This is a temptation to be avoided. Politi... |
Could State Legislatures Pick Electors to Vote for Trump? Not Likely. President Trump’s last-ditch efforts to reverse the election seem to come down to a far-fetched scenario, one in which Republican-led state legislatures choose the members of the Electoral College, overturning the will of voters. Could it work? Election law experts are highly skeptical. And leaders of the Republican majorities in legislatures in key states, including Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona and Georgia, told ... 2 |
New Yorker Mag: "Noam Chomsky Believes Trump is the Worst Criminal in History" When I called Chomsky, who is ninety-one, last month for a long-scheduled interview, I had meant to discuss his career and life, and his latest book, “Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal,” written with Robert Pollin and C. J. Polychroniou—but he spent most of the hour-long session railing against the Trump Administration with a vehemence that slightly surprised me. Chomsky has always been extremely ... 87 |
Conservative SCOTUS Justices Have Turned the Outry "Taxation Without Representation" & Democracy on their Heads Unchecked political spending creates an unbalanced system where donors’ interests outweigh the wishes of the majority of citizens are the direct result of conservative majority 5-4 SCOTUS rulings. A study by two top universities concludes that the concept of an American democracy might have become more of a fable than a fact. Since 1976 Conservative Justices of the SCOTUS have proved wrong Alexander Hamilton&rs... 3 |
An Unrivalled Summary of The Presidency of Donald Trump Donald Trump’s re-election campaign poses the greatest threat to American democracy since World War II. Mr. Trump’s ruinous tenure already has gravely damaged the United States at home and around the world. He has abused the power of his office and denied the legitimacy of his political opponents, shattering the norms that have bound the nation together for generations. He has subsumed the public interest to th... |
A young man joined army now believes the treatment of Palestinians is wrong. A young man left London to join Israel's army because he wanted to defend the Jewish people but now believes the treatment of Palestinians is morally wrong When he witnessed the occupation as a soldier, Carmel said he came to realize that Israel's policies were as much a force for violence as the terrorism it was supposed to prevent. Carmel said he left the army determined to prove that "you can be a patrio... |
COVID-19 Didn't Stop at the U.S. Water's Edge, yet States Exempt Foreign Importer from Full Corporate Taxation! The linked article deals with Maryland’s budget gap: but it’s applicable virtually all states. with revenue short-falls resulting from COVID-19. States can start reclaiming lost tax revenues by repealing the “water’s edge” option, and by requiring combined reporting. Doing so would mean multinational firms no longer avoiding taxes on highly profitable U.S. sales. Fully taxing th... |
Senate Republicans Authorize Subpoenas in Probe Targeting Trump Enemies Senate Republicans are ramping up their investigations into President Donald Trump’s foes. In a party-line vote Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee authorized Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to issue a broad range of subpoenas to a slew of former Obama administration officials who opened or were involved in the counterintelligence investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and the Russian gover... 1 |
President Trump is as Popular as He's Ever Been Right Now Here's an indisputable fact: President Donald Trump is as popular today as he has been since his first day in office. In a new Gallup poll, 49% approve of the job Trump is doing as president while 45% disapprove, matching the highest his approval rating has ever been in Gallup surveys. A Monmouth University poll released on Monday showed Trump at 46% approval, again the best he has done in that poll in more... |
How Bernie Sanders to help Down-ballot Democrats & Himself, by Demonizing Conservatism for Destroying Our Democracy The 1971 Powell Memo, by a conservative democrat, was the catalysis for a conservative counter-revolution knee-capping both progressivism and democracy in America. Virtually all, republicans brag of a more conservative track-record than their democratic opponent. However, the linked article makes the case that Joe Biden’s approach to politics is based on “appeasing the right” and “taking... 1 |
'White, male & 70+ years old'? DNC scorched for shifting debate rules AGAIN, after Tulsi Gabbard meets previous threshol The DNC has changed the qualifying threshold for the next Democratic primary debate, supposedly targeting no one specifically, but ensuring Tulsi Gabbard – the last remaining woman and person of color in the race – is excluded. The DNC simply cannot allow Tulsi on stage as she tells the truth, is honest, they can’t control, and she would literally shred Biden in front of those watching. So muc... 15 |
Issues the Donor Class will Prioritize in Controlling the DNC, Unless Warren/Sanders Progressives Unite Even back in 1996, the majority of Americans were turned off by campaign financing. From 24 years ago issues favored by the top ¼ of 1% (Political Donor Class), little has changed. Regardless of party affiliation this poster-group for plutocracy is elitist and homogenous in their bias toward political issues, as follows: More than half favored tax cuts even if they required cuts in public services ... 1 |
Trump Studies Hitler? Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his ... 2 |
"The Last Time Democracy Almost Died", Jill Lepore "The last time democracy nearly died all over the world and almost all at once, Americans argued about it, and then they tried to fix it. “The future of democracy is topic number one in the animated discussion going on all over America,” a contributor to the New York Times wrote in 1937. “In the Legislatures, over the radio, at the luncheon table, in the drawing rooms, at meetings of forums a... |
Young US adults increasingly favor socialism after capitalism's broken promises. But US already has socialism - for some
Nearly three-quarters of young Americans are likely to vote for a
socialist candidate, a new poll reveals, suggesting capitalism has lost its appeal. But is it really capitalism when government funds all but
the working class? Young Americans view
socialism much more favorably than their elders, with 70 percent likely
to vote for a socialist, according to a poll released on Monday by the
Victims of ... 1 |
Tulsi Gabbard Has Enemies In High Places
How doing the right thing
could be costing her everything
The morning of February 28, 2016,
Tulsi Gabbard was in a pretty good spot. She was the rising-star Congresswoman
from Hawaii, the darling of the Democratic party, whose anti-regime change
platform was breathing fresh life into a stagnating institution. She was their
future. But the revelations — revealed by Wikileaks through troves of leaked
intern... 1 |
George Soros says all his 'enemies' are wannabe dictators as he drops unprecedented wads of lobbying cash
“I’m very proud of the enemies
I have,” George Soros
told the New York Times in an interview published Friday, in which he
confidently predicted the popular opposition to his globalist philosophy was
winding down and that a backlash against Trump-style nationalism was on the
horizon.
Tulsi Gabbard can expect even more smears as it is apparent
her quest for peace and protection of sovereign rights of... 1 |
British judge jails Assange indefinitely, despite end of prison sentence In a hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court yesterday morning, British District Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled that WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange will remain in prison, despite the fact that his custodial sentence for “absconding” bail expires on September 22.The British judge presiding over the hearing ignored the fact that Assange had forfeited the bail monies his supporters had paid; that he h... 6 |
Why Restoring the Pre-TCJA State And Local Tax Deduction (SALT) is Vastly Difference than a Full SALT Cap Repeal! Prior the Tax Cut & Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 two IRS provisions capped SALT deductions of high-income taxpayers. These caps were repealed or reduced by TCJA. Since a super-majority of the U.S. House seats flipped by the Democrats in 2018 resulted from voter backlash against the SALT Cap the current Democratic House majority hope to pass a SALT Cap repeal or relief bill this year. All proposed bills to-date lack... 1 |
'We are moving into a new, controlled society worse than old totalitarianism' - Zizek on Google leak
What’s
terrifying about it is that we don’t even experience it as something
controlled. We just use social media, buy things, go to a doctor – and all the
data about us is out there. But those are the things that we perceive as our
freedom. So what we perceive as freedom becomes the very way we are controlled.
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White House Planning Executive Order to Censor the Internet Fight For The FutureBreaking: leaked documents show that the Trump administration is drafting an executive order that, if upheld by the courts, could essentially end free speech on the Internet. The draft order would put the FTC and the FCC, headed by its notoriously corrupt chairman Ajit Pai, in charge of monitoring and policing online speech on social media platforms, online forums, and more.It would giv... 8 |
Paul Craig Roberts An Open Invitation to Tyranny The FBI has published a document that concludes that “conspiracy theories” can motivate believers to commit crimes. click here ...Challenging official explanations ...can now result in monitoring by authorities with a view to finding a reason for pre-emptive arrest....What the FBI report does, intentionally or unintentionally, is to define a conspiracist as a person who doubts official explanations. ... 4 |
Pompeo 'Happy' to Pontificate in Tehran, Revealing US Tyranny of Arrogance
Imagine the spectacle. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sitting in Tehran and telling the Iranian people via a state media interview how “evil” their government is. No wonder tensions with Iran are reaching a flashpoint when Washington is so arrogant and delusional.These psychopaths get their rocks off making innocent people cowering. Where is that shill Michelle Bachelet the UN human rights chief when people in ... |