thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-15--Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley: Police Must Answer to the Community. (Podcast)

HELP ENLIGHTEN YOUR FELLOWS .
BE SURE TO PASS THIS ON .
SURVIVAL DEPENDS ON IT .
Police Must Answer to the Community The demand for community control of police ushers in a new stage of struggle , in which “ young people are imagining a world where these tremendous institutions of imperialism and the police state are gone , ’ said Max Rameau , an activist with Pan African Community Action ( PACA ) , in Washington , DC .
The PACA proposal would oversee police hiring , firing and operations by a board chosen from communities at random @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” of Protest Opponents of transformational change are seeking to “ domesticate ” the protest movement with bland calls for “ justice ” for George Floyd , who is dead and beyond justice , said Ajamu Baraka , national organizer for the Black Alliance for Peace .
“ What we can do is put a critical view on the system that created the conditions that resulted in Floyd ’ s life being taken.
” Activists also have an opportunity to build solidarity with global victims of U.S imperialism .
“ We have a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a brake on the U.S. state , ” said Baraka .
Repaying the Movement for Her Freedom Bresha Meadows faced long imprisonment in the shooting death of her abusive father when she was 14 years old , but was sentenced to a year in juvenile detention and six months at a mental facility because of the intercession of Survived and Punished and other activists .
Now free , Meadows hopes to lead a life of social activism .
“ That ’ s my calling , ” said the 18 year-old Ohioan .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and social media , I don ’ t think that I would have gotten out.
” Huge Teenage Linebackers Can Be Hurt by Racism and Abuse Black college athletes are emotionally and physically harmed in ways not widely recognized , said Dr. Gabby Yearwood , a socio-cultural anthropologist at the University of Texas at Austin .
For example , “ There is no student that would ever tolerate me speaking to them ” the way athletes are harangued by coaches .
Very few college athletes become professionals , but all carry the burden @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Yearwood , who wrote an article titled “ Playing Without Power : Black Male NCAA Student Athletes Living With Structural Racism.
” Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network is hosted by Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey .
A new edition of the program airs every Monday at 11 : am ET on PRN .
Length : one hour .

HELP ENLIGHTEN YOUR FELLOWS. BE SURE TO PASS THIS ON. SURVIVAL DEPENDS ON IT.
Police Must Answer to the Community
The demand for community control of police ushers in a new stage of struggle, in which “young people are imagining a world where these tremendous institutions of imperialism and the police state are gone,’ said Max Rameau, an activist with Pan African Community Action (PACA), in Washington, DC. The PACA proposal would oversee police hiring, firing and operations by a board chosen from communities at random, like jurors.
Beware “Domestication” of Protest
Opponents of transformational change are seeking to “domesticate” the protest movement with bland calls for “justice” for George Floyd, who is dead and beyond justice, said Ajamu Baraka, national organizer for the Black Alliance for Peace. “What we can do is put a critical view on the system that created the conditions that resulted in Floyd’s life being taken.” Activists also have an opportunity to build solidarity with global victims of U.S imperialism. “We have a responsibility as citizens of Empire to put a brake on the U.S. state,” said Baraka.
Repaying the Movement for Her Freedom
Bresha Meadows faced long imprisonment in the shooting death of her abusive father when she was 14 years old, but was sentenced to a year in juvenile detention and six months at a mental facility because of the intercession of Survived and Punished and other activists. Now free, Meadows hopes to lead a life of social activism. “That’s my calling,” said the 18 year-old Ohioan. “If it was not for the activists and social media, I don’t think that I would have gotten out.”
Huge Teenage Linebackers Can Be Hurt by Racism and Abuse
Black college athletes are emotionally and physically harmed in ways not widely recognized, said Dr. Gabby Yearwood, a socio-cultural anthropologist at the University of Texas at Austin. For example, “There is no student that would ever tolerate me speaking to them” the way athletes are harangued by coaches. Very few college athletes become professionals, but all carry the burden of physical and emotional injury, said Yearwood, who wrote an article titled “Playing Without Power: Black Male NCAA Student Athletes Living With Structural Racism.”
Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network is hosted by Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey. A new edition of the program airs every Monday at 11:am ET on PRN. Length: one hour.


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-15--Over the Rainbow: Paths of Resistance After George Floyd

^5000The mainstream imperialist media lie CONSTANTLY .
Literally 24/7 .
And it 's getting worse .
All of them do @ @ @ @ @ , the newspapers , the movies .
The internet .
No exceptions .
The corporate @ @ @ @ @ totalitarian .
CBS does it .
NBC does it .
ABC does it .
CNN @ @ @ @ @ it .
NPR does it .
And of course the NYTimes and WaPo do it @ @ @ @ @ '' voices telling you the same lies .
Enough to convince anyone .

Up to You.
^3000US citizens have no real political representation.
We don't live in a democracy. And our freedom is disappearing fast.
I don't want to be ruled by hypocrites, whores, and war criminals.
What about you? Time to push back against the corporate oligarchy.
And its multitude of minions and lackeys.


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-16--Vegan Washing: How Israel Uses Veganism to Gloss Over Palestinian Oppression

Israel , its government tells us , is a vegan paradise of tolerance and open-mindedness , where its soldiers can serve their country according to their ethical principles , eating vegan food and wearing clothes free from leather , wool , or other animal products .
There are now around 10,000 vegan soldiers in the IDF , and that figure is quickly rising .
Meanwhile , Tel Aviv markets itself to foreigners as the “ vegan capital of the world ” .
There is a fundamental contradiction between veganism and apartheid .
Veganism at its core is an ideology of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sentient beings .
As vegan website Live Kindly explains , it means “ to live in a way which shows appreciation to our humanity , our home and those who share it with us.
” It should go without saying that this is completely incompatible with successive Israeli governments going back to 1948 and Israel ’ s commitment to being a Jewish supremacist state .
Thus , in Israel , a country that cares about animals more than its indigenous human population , you can be vegan , but you can ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ continues to use the fact that thousands of its soldiers abscond from animal products as proof that it is a forward-thinking , progressive nation .
Mainstream and corporate media have , unsurprisingly , parroted this assertion .
The BBC , for instance , tells the story of an IDF soldier , Daniella Yoeli , so moral that “ had the army not been able to provide conditions that had harmed no living creatures , she might not have enlisted in a combat unit where she would not have been able to provide her @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was whether or not Palestinian humans qualified as human beings to her .
More alarming , however , is how many vegetarian and vegan outlets have swallowed the bait as well .
Veg News reports how Israeli soldiers march to war in leather-free boots and have plentiful plant-based ration options .
Live Kindly noted how the IDF ’ s deputy chief of staff is a vegetarian and how it recently appointed its first vegan officer .
Meanwhile , PETA went so far as to advise the Swiss Army to “ take a leaf @ @ @ @ @ @ @ book ” .
But especially troubling is that none of the articles even mentioned any criticism of the IDF , the government , or their actions , effectively amplifying Israeli propaganda worldwide .
With a host of celebrity advocates , including Tobey Maguire , Emily Deschanel and Zac Efron , veganism is growing exponentially across the West .
Noting that a quarter of 25-34 year old Americans are vegetarian or stricter , The Economist labeled 2019 the “ year of the vegan.
” Yet uncritical regurgitation of IDF press releases subtly presents the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Israelis vs. backward , close-minded Arab Muslims .
This framing is particularly misleading for a number of reasons .
Firstly , much of the most commonly celebrated Israeli vegan food ( falafel , hummus , baba ghanoush , stuffed vine leaves ) is simply the appropriated cuisine of the local peoples Israel displaced during its creation .
Secondly , the great irony is that the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development statistics show that Israelis actually consume the most poultry per capita in the world , with 80 % of the population eating @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Israelis eat over 200 pounds of meat every year , more than even the famously carnivorous Americans .
Furthermore , as the Palestinian Animal League notes , while 3 % of Israeli Jews are vegan , the number of their Palestinian Israeli counterparts is twice as high .
Therefore , the narrative begins to disintegrate upon even modest inspection .
In a similar fashion , Israel presents itself as a haven of acceptance for the LGBT community in a region of intolerance .
After winning the event in 2018 , the country @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Song Contest , a continent-wide celebration of flamboyantly gay music and culture ( despite not being a European nation ) .
The Israeli government saw the country ’ s victory as a huge diplomatic triumph , with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declaring winning performer Netta Barzilai as its “ best ambassador.
” Barzilai flew back home to perform at a government-sponsored victory celebration .
The same day the IDF slaughtered at least 58 Palestinians .
There was a considerable amount of pushback to the idea of Israel hosting the competition this year , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Nevertheless , the show went ahead as planned in Tel Aviv , another coup for the government .
While Israel is indeed a land that is both comparatively tolerant of LGBT people and accommodating to vegans , the general progressiveness that implies does not extend to the realm of politics , where the country continues to lurch ever more rightward to the point where even its former Prime Minister , Ehud Barak , has warned that the country is “ infected ” with fascism and the government must be stopped .
Thus , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ drivers can destroy Palestinian villages , vegan tank commanders can run over wheelchair-bound children , and transgender pilots can bomb wedding receptions .
The trick the IDF is trying to play is to get as much of the world to concentrate on its ( limited ) liberal inclusivity and ignore its near-genocidal military policy .
And it appears to be working .
Feature photo | An Israeli soldier kisses a watermelon before eating it near a Jewish settlement outside the Gaza Strip , May 22 , 2008 .
Dan Balilty | AP

Israel, its government tells us, is a vegan paradise of tolerance and open-mindedness, where its soldiers can serve their country according to their ethical principles, eating vegan food and wearing clothes free from leather, wool, or other animal products. There are now around 10,000 vegan soldiers in the IDF, and that figure is quickly rising. Meanwhile, Tel Aviv markets itself to foreigners as the “vegan capital of the world”.
The perfect place to be vegan doesn't exi- pic.twitter.com/TxPRExAz4M — Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) November 1, 2019 But while Israeli society is open to many progressive ideas like veganism and LGBT acceptance, that tolerance does not extend to the Palestinian population inside the country, nor to the 5.5 million refugee descendants of those it forced from the land in 1948. In fact, the United Nations describes Israel as imposing an “apartheid regime” on those Palestinians still living inside its border, who are forced to use inferior roads, schools, deprived of their homes and denied all manner of basic civil and human rights. So while the IDF’s uniforms may be cruelty-free, the injustice they perpetuate certainly is not. Incidentally, the Israeli population is overwhelmingly supportive of such measures, and around 50% advocate for the immediate and complete ethnic cleansing of the remaining Palestinian population, according to a 2016 poll conducted by the Pew Research Center.
Apartheid Isn’t Vegan
There is a fundamental contradiction between veganism and apartheid. Veganism at its core is an ideology of radical compassion for and non-violence towards all sentient beings. As vegan website Live Kindly explains, it means “to live in a way which shows appreciation to our humanity, our home and those who share it with us.” It should go without saying that this is completely incompatible with successive Israeli governments going back to 1948 and Israel’s commitment to being a Jewish supremacist state. Thus, in Israel, a country that cares about animals more than its indigenous human population, you can be vegan, but you can’t support Palestinian rights.
Nevertheless, Israel continues to use the fact that thousands of its soldiers abscond from animal products as proof that it is a forward-thinking, progressive nation. Mainstream and corporate media have, unsurprisingly, parroted this assertion. The BBC, for instance, tells the story of an IDF soldier, Daniella Yoeli, so moral that “had the army not been able to provide conditions that had harmed no living creatures, she might not have enlisted in a combat unit where she would not have been able to provide her own food.” Unexplored in the article was whether or not Palestinian humans qualified as human beings to her.
More alarming, however, is how many vegetarian and vegan outlets have swallowed the bait as well. Veg News reports how Israeli soldiers march to war in leather-free boots and have plentiful plant-based ration options. Live Kindly noted how the IDF’s deputy chief of staff is a vegetarian and how it recently appointed its first vegan officer. Meanwhile, PETA went so far as to advise the Swiss Army to “take a leaf out of the Israel Defense Forces’ book”. But especially troubling is that none of the articles even mentioned any criticism of the IDF, the government, or their actions, effectively amplifying Israeli propaganda worldwide.
With a host of celebrity advocates, including Tobey Maguire, Emily Deschanel and Zac Efron, veganism is growing exponentially across the West. Noting that a quarter of 25-34 year old Americans are vegetarian or stricter, The Economist labeled 2019 the “year of the vegan.” Yet uncritical regurgitation of IDF press releases subtly presents the Middle East region as liberal, forward-thinking Israelis vs. backward, close-minded Arab Muslims.
This framing is particularly misleading for a number of reasons. Firstly, much of the most commonly celebrated Israeli vegan food (falafel, hummus, baba ghanoush, stuffed vine leaves) is simply the appropriated cuisine of the local peoples Israel displaced during its creation. Secondly, the great irony is that the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development statistics show that Israelis actually consume the most poultry per capita in the world, with 80% of the population eating it every day. As a whole, Israelis eat over 200 pounds of meat every year, more than even the famously carnivorous Americans.
OECD Chart: Meat consumption, Poultry meat, Kilograms/capita, 2018
Furthermore, as the Palestinian Animal League notes, while 3% of Israeli Jews are vegan, the number of their Palestinian Israeli counterparts is twice as high. Therefore, the narrative begins to disintegrate upon even modest inspection.
From Vegan Washing to Pink Washing
In a similar fashion, Israel presents itself as a haven of acceptance for the LGBT community in a region of intolerance. After winning the event in 2018, the country received the right to host the Eurovision Song Contest, a continent-wide celebration of flamboyantly gay music and culture (despite not being a European nation).
The Israeli government saw the country’s victory as a huge diplomatic triumph, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declaring winning performer Netta Barzilai as its “best ambassador.” Barzilai flew back home to perform at a government-sponsored victory celebration. The same day the IDF slaughtered at least 58 Palestinians. There was a considerable amount of pushback to the idea of Israel hosting the competition this year, with some acts refusing to perform. Nevertheless, the show went ahead as planned in Tel Aviv, another coup for the government.
While Israel is indeed a land that is both comparatively tolerant of LGBT people and accommodating to vegans, the general progressiveness that implies does not extend to the realm of politics, where the country continues to lurch ever more rightward to the point where even its former Prime Minister, Ehud Barak, has warned that the country is “infected” with fascism and the government must be stopped. Thus, in the Jewish-only state, female bulldozer drivers can destroy Palestinian villages, vegan tank commanders can run over wheelchair-bound children, and transgender pilots can bomb wedding receptions. The trick the IDF is trying to play is to get as much of the world to concentrate on its (limited) liberal inclusivity and ignore its near-genocidal military policy. And it appears to be working.
Feature photo | An Israeli soldier kisses a watermelon before eating it near a Jewish settlement outside the Gaza Strip, May 22, 2008. Dan Balilty | AP


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-16--Mexico Willing to Help Venezuela With Oil Upon Request

Venezuela ’ s government has repeatedly denounced the consequences of the illegal coercive measures imposed by the U.S. exico would be willing to sell oil to Venezuela if that country requested it , President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday .
In his regular morning press conference , Lopez Obrador stressed that this would be a humanitarian gesture , as the South American nation has been severely affected by the unilateral and illegal United States blockade .
“ If they requested it and it was a humanitarian necessity , we would do it ( ... ) No one has the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ expressed .
Venezuela ’ s government has repeatedly denounced the consequences of the illegal coercive measures imposed by the U.S. against the Venezuelan people .
These unilateral actions have threatened fuel supply in this South American country .
Te blockade `` is a war , ( ... ) a brutal war .
The U.S. is persecuting any company that brings a drop of gasoline to Venezuela , ” Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said as Iranian tankers reached the country two weeks ago .
If Mexico would sell fuel to Venezuela they could face @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump 's administration prevents other countries and companies from working with the government of Maduro .
`` Mexico is an independent , sovereign country , we make our own decisions and we do not interfere with the other countries ' policies .
It is people 's self-determination , '' Obrador pointed out .
Recently , Iran sent five tankers carrying gasoline and related products , aiming to alleviate the shortage derived from the blockade .

Venezuela’s government has repeatedly denounced the consequences of the illegal coercive measures imposed by the U.S.
M exico would be willing to sell oil to Venezuela if that country requested it, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday.
In his regular morning press conference, Lopez Obrador stressed that this would be a humanitarian gesture, as the South American nation has been severely affected by the unilateral and illegal United States blockade.
“If they requested it and it was a humanitarian necessity, we would do it (...) No one has the right to oppress others,” he expressed.
Venezuela’s government has repeatedly denounced the consequences of the illegal coercive measures imposed by the U.S. against the Venezuelan people. These unilateral actions have threatened fuel supply in this South American country.
Te blockade "is a war,(...)a brutal war. The U.S. is persecuting any company that brings a drop of gasoline to Venezuela,” Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said as Iranian tankers reached the country two weeks ago.
If Mexico would sell fuel to Venezuela they could face sanctions by the U.S government, as Trump's administration prevents other countries and companies from working with the government of Maduro.
"Mexico is an independent, sovereign country, we make our own decisions and we do not interfere with the other countries' policies. It is people's self-determination," Obrador pointed out.
Recently, Iran sent five tankers carrying gasoline and related products, aiming to alleviate the shortage derived from the blockade.


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-16--Narrative Control Operations Escalate As America Burns

Wow .
Twitter deleted 170,000 accounts for `` spreading narratives favorable to the Communist Party of China '' .
To identify accounts , Twitter `` worked with '' @ ASPI_org — a `` think tank '' funded by the US and Australian governments + numerous weapons manufacturers .
https : //t.co/8Ocy43yTaK Norton ’ s breakdown of the ways Wikipedia is slanted to consistently favor pro-establishment narratives is comprehensive , and well worth reading in its entirety .
This short Mintpress News article by Alan MacLeod on the way this same monopolistic editing dynamic has seen Mintpress , teleSur English , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the same way is also worth a look .
“ The internet encyclopedia has become a deeply undemocratic platform , dominated by Western state-backed actors and corporate public relations flacks , easily manipulated by powerful forces .
And it is run by figures who often represent these same elite interests , or align with their regime-change politics , ” Norton writes .
Norton also notes how Wikipedia has designated the leak publication outlet WikiLeaks an unreliable source despite its nearly 14-year record of authentic publications .
Wikipedia designates WikiLeaks as “ generally unreliable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that “ there are concerns regarding whether the documents are genuine or tampered.
” “ In fact , in its more than four years of existence , including its first two years hosted at the website AlterNet ( whose use is not forbidden on Wikipedia ) , The Grayzone has never had to issue a major correction or retract a story , ” Grayzone ‘ s Ben Norton says in its report on the matter .
Norton documents how the Wikipedia editors are unable to cite any actual false information in any of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ arguments , leaving only their objection that Grayzone doesn ’ t parrot US government-approved narratives like The New York Times , Bellingcat , and Wikipedia ’ s other designated “ reliable sources ” .
The Grayzone reports that it has been blacklisted as a source on Wikipedia following a concerted campaign by a suspicious-looking group of editor accounts , many of whom appear to have ties to the right-wing opposition in Venezuela .
Wikipedia , whose co-founder once told the US Senate that the online encyclopedia project “ may be helpful to government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ added The Grayzone to a very short list of outlets that are never to be used under any circumstances , claiming on apparently no basis whatsoever that it publishes false information .
Wikipedia formally censors The Grayzone as regime-change advocates monopolize editing @ BenjaminNorton on how a cabal of editors got us listed as a `` deprecated source '' entirely on the basis of our political views and in violation of Wikipedia guidelines https : //t.co/GlO7bvATgk Those words rattle around in the memory now as America burns with nationwide protests demanding an end @ @ @ @ @ @ @ narrative control operations ramp up with frantic urgency .
“ Stopping the false information artillery barrage landing on social media users comes only when those outlets distributing bogus stories are silenced—silence the guns and the barrage will end , ” Watts added .
“ Civil wars don ’ t start with gunshots , they start with words , ” the representatives were told by cold warrior think tank denizen Clint Watts .
“ America ’ s war with itself has already begun .
We all must act now on the social media battlefield @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lead to violent confrontations and easily transform us into the Divided States of America.
” In 2017 , representatives of Facebook , Twitter , and Google were instructed in a US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that it is their responsibility to “ quell information rebellions ” and adopt a “ mission statement ” expressing their commitment to “ prevent the fomenting of discord.
” ikipedia , Facebook , Twitter , and mainstream media are falling all over themselves with censorship and spin jobs to get the narrative back under control as mass protests @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all comes out as we learn that Facebook is attaching warning labels to posts from outlets sponsored by governments which have not been absorbed into the US-centralized empire like RT and CGTN , but attaching no such label to outlets funded by imperial governments like BBC and Radio Free Europe .
There is not any discernible difference in the degree of bias shown in state media from unabsorbed nations like Russia and China than there is in state media from the US and UK ( or oligarchic media from the US and UK @ @ @ @ @ @ @ causes its 2.6 billion active users to look at one with suspicion but not the other .
This also comes out at the same time we learn that Twitter has deleted over 170,000 accounts for “ spreading geopolitical narratives favorable to the Communist Party of China ” .
CNN reports ( in an article which also cites the analysis of the scandal-ridden narrative manager Renee DiResta ) that the accounts were determined to be “ tied to the Chinese government ” by “ experts ” who we learn later in the article are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Institute ( ASPI ) , a think tank geared explicitly toward fomenting anti-China sentiment in Australia .
“ Former Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr has slammed ASPI for pushing a ‘ one-sided , pro-American view of the world ’ , while the former Australian ambassador to China Geoff Raby added that ASPI is ‘ the architect of the China threat theory in Australia ’ , ” journalist Ajit Singh noted on Twitter , adding , “ Australian Senator Kim Carr has slammed ASPI for seeking to ‘ promote a new cold war with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In February , Carr highlighted that ASPI received $ 450,000 funding from the US State Department in 2019-20.
” This blatant imperialist narrative manipulation operation are the “ experts ” Twitter consulted in determining which accounts were “ tied to the Chinese government ” and therefore needed to be silenced .
Twitter meanwhile continues to allow known fake accounts like the MEK propaganda operation “ Heshmat Alavi ” to continue inauthentically posing as real people , even when their propaganda is publicized by the President of the United States , because such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ governments .
This pro-imperialism slant is standard for all Silicon Valley tech giants .
This also comes out at the same time the mass media are warning us that Russia , China and Iran are “ employing state media , proxy outlets , and social media accounts to amplify criticism of the United States related to the death of George Floyd and subsequent events.
” “ As protesters hit the streets in cities across the country , America ’ s foreign adversaries have flooded social media with content meant to sow division and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s death , according to a U.S. government intelligence bulletin obtained by ABC News , ” we are told by the Disney-owned ABC .
“ These actors criticize the United States as hypocritical , corrupt , undemocratic , racist , guilty of human rights abuses and on the verge of collapsing , ” the bulletin reads , which to anyone who ’ s been paying attention is obviously true .
This is a news story about people from other countries saying true things about the United States of America .
“ This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ using the combination of overt propaganda and covertly disseminated disinformation to sow discord across our populace , expand the cracks in our society , and undermine the credibility of the U.S. government , ” former senior Department of Homeland Security official and current ABC News contributor John Cohen informs us .
Ahh , okay .
Cool .
Thank you for the information , former senior Department of Homeland Security official and current ABC News contributor John Cohen .
Man it sure is a good thing America doesn ’ t have state media .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ be .
Social media outlets were told that they need to censor their platforms to “ prevent the fomenting of discord , ” but obviously they didn ’ t move quickly enough , because the discord has been well and truly fomented .
And now they are in a mad scramble to prevent Americans from hearing what people in foreign nations have to say about that , still apparently laboring under the delusion that this is anything other than homegrown , purebred , cornfed , American-as-apple-pie discord .
The most distinctive feature of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ consciousness .
Expanding consciousness of media corruption , of DNC corruption , of government corruption , of the excessive amount of power wielded by the US presidency and the absurd esteem people used to have for that position , of the abuse of immigrants , of police militarization , of unhealed racial wounds , etc .
This is encouraging , because you can ’ t fix something you haven ’ t made conscious .
This is true of our own unresolved psychological issues , and it ’ s true of our unresolved collective @ @ @ @ @ @ @ toward a healthy world is expanded consciousness .
This is why increasing government opacity , internet censorship , and the war on journalism are so dangerous .
Corruption and abuse thrive in darkness , and corrupt abusers want to keep that darkness intact .
They want to keep things as unconscious as possible .
It ’ s beginning to look like that cat ’ s out of the bag , though , and I would be very surprised if they ever manage to get that sucker back in there .
What an exciting @ @ @ @ @

Wow. Twitter deleted 170,000 accounts for "spreading narratives favorable to the Communist Party of China". To identify accounts, Twitter "worked with" @ASPI_org — a "think tank" funded by the US and Australian governments + numerous weapons manufacturers. https://t.co/8Ocy43yTaK
Norton’s breakdown of the ways Wikipedia is slanted to consistently favor pro-establishment narratives is comprehensive, and well worth reading in its entirety. This short Mintpress News article by Alan MacLeod on the way this same monopolistic editing dynamic has seen Mintpress, teleSur English, and Venezuela Analysis blacklisted from Wikipedia in the same way is also worth a look.
“The internet encyclopedia has become a deeply undemocratic platform, dominated by Western state-backed actors and corporate public relations flacks, easily manipulated by powerful forces. And it is run by figures who often represent these same elite interests, or align with their regime-change politics,” Norton writes.
Norton also notes how Wikipedia has designated the leak publication outlet WikiLeaks an unreliable source despite its nearly 14-year record of authentic publications. Wikipedia designates WikiLeaks as “generally unreliable,” making the utterly baseless claim that “there are concerns regarding whether the documents are genuine or tampered.”
“In fact, in its more than four years of existence, including its first two years hosted at the website AlterNet (whose use is not forbidden on Wikipedia), The Grayzone has never had to issue a major correction or retract a story,” Grayzone‘s Ben Norton says in its report on the matter. Norton documents how the Wikipedia editors are unable to cite any actual false information in any of the outlet’s publications in their arguments, leaving only their objection that Grayzone doesn’t parrot US government-approved narratives like The New York Times, Bellingcat, and Wikipedia’s other designated “reliable sources”.
The Grayzone reports that it has been blacklisted as a source on Wikipedia following a concerted campaign by a suspicious-looking group of editor accounts, many of whom appear to have ties to the right-wing opposition in Venezuela. Wikipedia, whose co-founder once told the US Senate that the online encyclopedia project “may be helpful to government operations and homeland security”, has added The Grayzone to a very short list of outlets that are never to be used under any circumstances, claiming on apparently no basis whatsoever that it publishes false information.
Wikipedia formally censors The Grayzone as regime-change advocates monopolize editing @BenjaminNorton on how a cabal of editors got us listed as a "deprecated source" entirely on the basis of our political views and in violation of Wikipedia guidelines https://t.co/GlO7bvATgk
Those words rattle around in the memory now as America burns with nationwide protests demanding an end to the police state , and as narrative control operations ramp up with frantic urgency.
“Stopping the false information artillery barrage landing on social media users comes only when those outlets distributing bogus stories are silenced—silence the guns and the barrage will end,” Watts added.
“Civil wars don’t start with gunshots, they start with words,” the representatives were told by cold warrior think tank denizen Clint Watts. “America’s war with itself has already begun. We all must act now on the social media battlefield to quell information rebellions that can quickly lead to violent confrontations and easily transform us into the Divided States of America.”
In 2017, representatives of Facebook, Twitter, and Google were instructed in a US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that it is their responsibility to “quell information rebellions” and adopt a “mission statement” expressing their commitment to “prevent the fomenting of discord.”
ikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, and mainstream media are falling all over themselves with censorship and spin jobs to get the narrative back under control as mass protests continue to sweep across America.
Facebook’s new double standard, a clear sign who calls the shots (US government). They added labels on Chinese and Russian funded media as “state-controlled” (which isn’t accurate) but no label on British & US funded media like BBC and Radio Free Europe. So fair. pic.twitter.com/gSYiU1LeFM — Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) June 11, 2020
This all comes out as we learn that Facebook is attaching warning labels to posts from outlets sponsored by governments which have not been absorbed into the US-centralized empire like RT and CGTN, but attaching no such label to outlets funded by imperial governments like BBC and Radio Free Europe. There is not any discernible difference in the degree of bias shown in state media from unabsorbed nations like Russia and China than there is in state media from the US and UK (or oligarchic media from the US and UK for that matter), but Facebook causes its 2.6 billion active users to look at one with suspicion but not the other.
This also comes out at the same time we learn that Twitter has deleted over 170,000 accounts for “spreading geopolitical narratives favorable to the Communist Party of China”. CNN reports (in an article which also cites the analysis of the scandal-ridden narrative manager Renee DiResta) that the accounts were determined to be “tied to the Chinese government” by “experts” who we learn later in the article are none other than the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), a think tank geared explicitly toward fomenting anti-China sentiment in Australia.
“Former Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr has slammed ASPI for pushing a ‘one-sided, pro-American view of the world’, while the former Australian ambassador to China Geoff Raby added that ASPI is ‘the architect of the China threat theory in Australia’,” journalist Ajit Singh noted on Twitter, adding, “Australian Senator Kim Carr has slammed ASPI for seeking to ‘promote a new cold war with China’ in collaboration with the US. In February, Carr highlighted that ASPI received $450,000 funding from the US State Department in 2019-20.”
This blatant imperialist narrative manipulation operation are the “experts” Twitter consulted in determining which accounts were “tied to the Chinese government” and therefore needed to be silenced. Twitter meanwhile continues to allow known fake accounts like the MEK propaganda operation “Heshmat Alavi” to continue inauthentically posing as real people, even when their propaganda is publicized by the President of the United States, because such accounts toe the imperialist line against empire-targeted governments. This pro-imperialism slant is standard for all Silicon Valley tech giants.
Donald Trump just quoted an account belonging to a fake persona made up by the MEK terrorist group (https://t.co/c3O0D4Wxtm) in a tweet. 2020 is amazing. https://t.co/KzLHUXLNhZ — Ali Ahmadi (@AliAhmadi_Iran) April 22, 2020
America's foreign adversaries have flooded social media with content meant to show division and discord in the wake of George Floyd's death, according to U.S. government intelligence bulletin obtained by @ABC News. https://t.co/To79ais0dT — ABC News (@ABC) June 11, 2020
This also comes out at the same time the mass media are warning us that Russia, China and Iran are “employing state media, proxy outlets, and social media accounts to amplify criticism of the United States related to the death of George Floyd and subsequent events.”
“As protesters hit the streets in cities across the country, America’s foreign adversaries have flooded social media with content meant to sow division and discord in the wake of George Floyd’s death, according to a U.S. government intelligence bulletin obtained by ABC News,” we are told by the Disney-owned ABC.
“These actors criticize the United States as hypocritical, corrupt, undemocratic, racist, guilty of human rights abuses and on the verge of collapsing,” the bulletin reads, which to anyone who’s been paying attention is obviously true. This is a news story about people from other countries saying true things about the United States of America.
“This is yet another indicator that Russia is using the combination of overt propaganda and covertly disseminated disinformation to sow discord across our populace, expand the cracks in our society, and undermine the credibility of the U.S. government,” former senior Department of Homeland Security official and current ABC News contributor John Cohen informs us.
Ahh, okay. Cool. Thank you for the information, former senior Department of Homeland Security official and current ABC News contributor John Cohen. Man it sure is a good thing America doesn’t have state media. Think about how bad the disinformation would be.
“Civil wars don’t start with gunshots, they start with words” social media companies will be first battlefield between Americans before spilling onto our streets. We must address #TechHearing #Senate https://t.co/XxsX9dtNYO pic.twitter.com/vnwpErlymi — Clint Watts (@selectedwisdom) November 1, 2017
Social media outlets were told that they need to censor their platforms to “prevent the fomenting of discord,” but obviously they didn’t move quickly enough, because the discord has been well and truly fomented. And now they are in a mad scramble to prevent Americans from hearing what people in foreign nations have to say about that, still apparently laboring under the delusion that this is anything other than homegrown, purebred, cornfed, American-as-apple-pie discord.
The most distinctive feature of the last four years has been expanding consciousness. Expanding consciousness of media corruption, of DNC corruption, of government corruption, of the excessive amount of power wielded by the US presidency and the absurd esteem people used to have for that position, of the abuse of immigrants, of police militarization, of unhealed racial wounds, etc.
This is encouraging, because you can’t fix something you haven’t made conscious. This is true of our own unresolved psychological issues, and it’s true of our unresolved collective issues as well. The first step toward a healthy world is expanded consciousness.
This is why increasing government opacity, internet censorship, and the war on journalism are so dangerous. Corruption and abuse thrive in darkness, and corrupt abusers want to keep that darkness intact. They want to keep things as unconscious as possible.
It’s beginning to look like that cat’s out of the bag, though, and I would be very surprised if they ever manage to get that sucker back in there.
What an exciting time to be alive.


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-16--The Autopsy Report on the Death of the Liberal Class

After the capitulation , the Liberal Class finally died .
It faded away after decades of being morbidly dysfunctional .
It was often out of its mind with delirium , and with periods of being semi-comatose .
It had suffered from physical deterioration , mental depression and hallucinations of its former gradeur .
An autopsy was performed to determine the exact cause of death .
Political scientists wanted to examine the corpse for underlying pathologies and their progression .
The information may prove useful to future social movements .
Hopefully , future generations can be saved from the tragic fate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ peaceful protests against riotous police violence gives one some hope for the next generation .
Survivors of the Liberal Class are Identity Politics and Political Correctness .
The relatives were left squabbling over Liberal 's legacy .
The Biden faction claims that it is the sole legitimate heir .
The Sanders faction is begging for some table scraps .
The pro-maskers and anti-maskers are in an angry Twitter feud .
Identity politics , political correctness , incrementalists , and mainstream Democrats are demanding their share of the estate .
The middle class was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The working class and the poor had become estranged for many years , and were cut out of the will entirely .
The 100-years-old body of the Liberal Class had many wounds .
In its younger days it had won some milestone battles : organizing labor , the 40-hour work week , a minimum wage , women suffrage , child labor laws , Social Security , Medicare , the Civil Rights Movement , and protests against the Vietnam War were just a few .
Battles lost were to McCarthyism , COINTELPRO , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ incarceration , Latin American death squads , corporatism , and international imperialism .
[ NB : The Liberal class `` won '' these battles because real socialist and communist activists—the real but usually minuscule left— blew some real wind into its normally flaccid sails . ]
In later years the Liberal Class grew fat , dull and lazy .
Fast-food , slow metabolism , consumerism , too much screen time and its decrepit age had severely weakened its immune system .
A gelatinized brain caused ambivalence , confusion , and senility .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and change , which never came .
Psychologically the Liberal Class simply lost all its will to fight .
Chris Hedges , in his book The Death of the Liberal Class , had speculated that the cause of death was gullibility .
This was a contributing factor .
Liberalism had been foolish enough to believe that it could change the political class from within the system .
It had believed that elections and voting for the lesser evil would buy it time .
The priority was always to vote for the lesser evil @ @ @ @ @ @ @ waiting for the messiah to appear in the `` next '' election .
The Liberal Class believed in many false messiahs .
In 1976 it elected Jimmy Carter .
The 1976 election took place when the Vietnam War and Watergate were still fresh in the political mind .
The economy was in a shambles , and there was an oil crisis .
Hyper-inflation and recession were a new phenomenon called stagflation .
Liberalism hoped Carter would be the Promised One .
Carter attacked the energy crisis by calling for conservation and solar energy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ off the lights .
He put solar panels on the White House roof .
Carter acted as if he was a God-fearing pious man .
He talked about peace in the Middle East , and nuclear arms reduction .
In the end , Carter ( left ) was undone by a feud with his own liberal political party , and he was angry with the American people whom he berated for having a `` moral malaise '' .
A hostile mainstream media ridiculed him and made him a laughing stock .
On top @ @ @ @ @ @ @ -- Despite Carter 's come-to-Jesus lecturing he was defeated in the 1980 election by a Hollywood `` B '' movie actor , pitchman for General Electric and drugstore cowboy named Ronald Reagan .
Undiagnosed at the time , Carter left the Liberal Class with a malignant tumor .
It metastasized in the twenty-first century into the War on Terror .
Carter and his National Security Advisor , the great-game aficionado Zbigniew Brzezinski armed a band of terrorists in Afghanistan .
Brzezinski later bragged that he and Carter egged the Soviet Union into a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the time .
Instead the U.S. was later hoisted by its own petard into wars that would never end .
Carter 's Afghan war lead to the destruction of that developing nation .
Afghan women were launched back into the future of the 13th century , and the war killed over a million Afghan men , women and children .
Carter 's chickens hatched into the attacks on the U.S. of September 11 , 2001 .
For over forty years Afghanistan has been a humanitarian disaster , because of a liberal president @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the wilderness of Reaganomics , Thatcherism , and Papa Bush , the Liberal Class thought that it had been sent another messiah by the name of William Jefferson Clinton .
Ironically , Clinton was from Hope -- Hope , Arkansas .
Hope was the Liberal Class 's drug of choice .
It kept looking for higher-highs , and instead got lower-lows .
Clinton was a New Democrat .
What the New Democratic Coalition called being committed to pro-economic growth , pro-innovation , and fiscally responsible policies .
In other words , Clinton was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It was even said that Clinton was the first black president , even though he was as white as sliced bread .
[ 2 ] Clinton slashed welfare for the poor , and flooded the prison population with African Americans .
Clinton waxed eloquent about the middle class , and the Liberal Class stopped caring about the downtrodden .
There was a Democrat in the White House , and the Liberal Class was loyal to the Democratic Party .
Liberalism stopped caring about the problems that society caused .
As Senator Joe Biden @ @ @ @ @ @ @ `` I do n't care ; LOCK THEM UP '' .
The words `` PREDATORS '' and `` THEM '' were code for young Black American men .
In the 2019 Democratic presidential debates Senator Cory Booker [ himself a phony ] called Joe Biden out : '' There are people right now in prison for life for drug offenses , because you stood up and used that tough-on-crime phony rhetoric that got a lot of people elected but destroyed communities like mine . ''
[ 3 ] [ Joe Biden Warns Of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Were `` Beyond The Pale '' In 1993 Crime Speech ] Biden 's tough-on-crime speech was the most crude and racist speech made on the Senate floor in modern history .
Southern racist senators Strom Thurmond and Richard Russell would have been proud .
They were used to the Ku Klux Klan holding Blacks down .
Now the police would do it .
LISTEN HERE to Senator Strom Thurman 's racist 1957 24-hour talking filibuster of the 1957 Civil Rights Act .
[ 4 ] The following quote was then enough to make @ @ @ @ @ @ @ There 's not enough troops in the army , to force the southern people to break down segregation and admit the ' n-word ' race into our theaters , into our swimming pools , into our homes , and into our churches -- - '' In the 1990s liberalism forgot about the 1960 's Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements .
Clinton 's `` crime bills '' were crimes against humanity .
The laws broadened the death penalty to 60 more crimes , and three strikes mandated life-time sentences .
Clinton financed building more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people , disproportionately Black and poor .
Clinton and the Liberal Class ushered in the New Jim Crow .
[ 5 ] [ 6 ] Clinton signed NAFTA ( North American Free Trade Agreement ) , which hastened deindustrialization , and the loss of good-paying jobs for the working class .
He deregulated Wall Street , which lead to the 2008 financial collapse of the banking industry and the Great Recession .
That economic meltdown resulted in the loss of 8.5 million jobs , 3 million families being kicked out of their homes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the rich .
It was the worst recession since the 1930 's Great Depression .
Clinton signed into law the `` Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 '' , which was used as the legal authorization by George Bush to invade Iraq in 2003 .
By 1995 Clinton 's economic strangulation of Iraq killed 500,000 Iraqi children .
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said it was `` worth it '' , since it furthered U.S. foreign policy .
So for 5 more years Clinton and Albright killed another 500,000 Iraqi children from cholera @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the social contract was no surprise to the Liberal Class .
It was one of Clinton 's 1992 campaign promises to `` restructure the social safety net '' .
Clinton promised to `` end welfare as we know it '' , and he did .
[ 7 ] Clinton made it tougher for the poor to qualify for benefits , he set lifetime limits , and punted the responsibility for social programs to the states , without giving them the adequate federal block grants to fund it .
The Liberal Class did not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In 2000 George W. Bush started his criminal presidential enterprise by stealing the needed Florida electoral votes from Al Gore .
The U.S. Supreme Court declared that recounting the infamous `` hanging chads '' violated the U.S. Constitution .
Gore could have petitioned the Florida Supreme Court for a total recount of the state , but the Liberal Class advised him not to .
It said that a recount would cause a tremendous uproar , make liberals look like spoilsports , and harm our democracy .
So Gore conceded the purloined presidency to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ After the attacks on the US of September 11 , 2001 , the Liberal Class voted in a joint resolution to give Bush the Authorization for the Use of Military Force .
Democrat Barbara Jean Lee was the single vote against it .
[ 9 ] Bush 's War on Terror was on .
Bush used the authorization to invade Afghanistan .
The last big anti-war hurrah for the Liberal Class was in February 2003 against the planned invasion of Iraq .
The Liberal Class 's new enthusiasm for antiwar protests was short-lived @ @ @ @ @ @ @ servants pulled one illegal outrage after another the Liberal Class barely made a whimper .
Assassinations , torture , kidnappings , indefinite detention , illegal covert operations , domestic spying , persecuting whistleblowers , and shredding the Bill of Rights were overlooked and even abetted by Democrats .
The Liberal Class begged for authoritarianism to keep the country safe from terrorists .
Today George Bush is being rehabilitated as a great president who just made a few mistakes .
The Liberal Class forgot that Bush is a war criminal , committed crimes against @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the U.S.A. Bush killed and destroyed millions of lives , and what was left of U.S. democracy .
Ellen DeGeneres [ est .
net worth $ 330 million ] says we should be kind to war criminals even if we disagree with them .
The Liberal Class agreed and said that is what America is all about .
The Liberal Class thought that the messiah had finally arrived when Barack Hussein Obama was elected president .
The Liberal Class believed Obama 's lies and hoped his promises of change were true .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ to Wall Street , the health-insurance industry , and Big Pharma .
Obama went on to leveraged Bush 's authoritarianism to beat down the middle class and poor .
He did nothing for Blacks .
Obama went from bombing three countries to bombing seven .
He made Bush 's tax-cuts for the oligarchs permanent .
He continued the programs of assassination , extraordinary-renditions , secret prisons , secret terrorist mercenaries , secret wars and regime-change projects .
Obama turned the New Cold War into a hotter war with Russia and China .
He @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and Honduras .
He pivoted to Asia .
He destroyed the welfare state in Libya .
Even Obama could not keep a straight face when he declared Venezuela a threat to the U.S. national security .
Obama is a war criminal .
He committed crimes against humanity , and he killed and destroyed millions of lives .
Gitmo still stands as an avatar to his lies .
He illegally persecuted more whistleblowers , deported more undocumented immigrants , transferred more wealth to the rich , and militarized the police more than all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reason Trump was elected in 2016 .
Still , the Liberal Class adored him .
The Liberal Class died from irrelevance -- - a disease from the 1960s that affected liberals then over the age of 30 .
Dementia set in during the 1990s .
The Liberal Class became brain dead in 2008 .
Trump-derangement syndrome took over its subconscious mind in 2016 .
Russiagate brought on a near-fatal heart attack .
Paralysis set in when Joe Biden became the Democratic Party 's presumptive nominee .
Covid-19 caused Liberalism 's internal organs to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ died because it had no purpose in life , lost the will to live , and just gave up .
Funeral services will NOT be held since The Liberal Class 's friends and relatives have prior commitments with Democratic Talking Points .
The Liberal Class left a note asking that instead of flowers , contributions be sent to Bernie or Bust 2024 .
[ 3 ] .
`` The Crime-Bill Debate Shows How Short Americans ' Memories Are '' , The Atlantic , September 12 , 2019 .
( click here ) .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Filibuster We Ca n't Afford to Forget '' , The Takaway Podcast , New York Public Radio , WNYC Studios , August 29 , 2016 .
( https : //www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/racist-filibuster-we-cant-afford-forget ) .
[ 5 ] .
The New Jim Crow , Mass Incarceration in the age of Colorblindness , by Michelle Alexander .
Website https : //newjimcrow.com/ .
[ 8 ] .
`` Hanging Chads : As the Florida Recount Implodes , the Supreme Court Decides Bush v. Gore '' , U.S. News and World Report , January 17 , 2008 .
( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ] .
H.J.Res .
64 ( 107th ) : Authorization for Use of Military Force , GovTrac , September 14 , 2001 .
( https : //www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/107-2001/h342 ) .

By David William Pear
A little irony and a lot of history, and with a message for the left.
After the capitulation, the Liberal Class finally died. It faded away after decades of being morbidly dysfunctional. It was often out of its mind with delirium, and with periods of being semi-comatose. It had suffered from physical deterioration, mental depression and hallucinations of its former gradeur.
An autopsy was performed to determine the exact cause of death. Political scientists wanted to examine the corpse for underlying pathologies and their progression. The information may prove useful to future social movements. Hopefully, future generations can be saved from the tragic fate of the Old Liberal Class. The peaceful protests against riotous police violence gives one some hope for the next generation.
Survivors of the Liberal Class are Identity Politics and Political Correctness. The relatives were left squabbling over Liberal's legacy. The Biden faction claims that it is the sole legitimate heir. The Sanders faction is begging for some table scraps. The pro-maskers and anti-maskers are in an angry Twitter feud. Identity politics, political correctness, incrementalists, and mainstream Democrats are demanding their share of the estate. The middle class was left with nothing but broken promises. The working class and the poor had become estranged for many years, and were cut out of the will entirely.
The 100-years-old body of the Liberal Class had many wounds. In its younger days it had won some milestone battles: organizing labor, the 40-hour work week, a minimum wage, women suffrage, child labor laws, Social Security, Medicare, the Civil Rights Movement, and protests against the Vietnam War were just a few. Battles lost were to McCarthyism, COINTELPRO, the wars on drugs and crime, mass incarceration, Latin American death squads, corporatism, and international imperialism. [NB: The Liberal class "won" these battles because real socialist and communist activists—the real but usually minuscule left— blew some real wind into its normally flaccid sails.]
In later years the Liberal Class grew fat, dull and lazy. Fast-food, slow metabolism, consumerism, too much screen time and its decrepit age had severely weakened its immune system. A gelatinized brain caused ambivalence, confusion, and senility. The heart was broken from waiting for hope and change, which never came. Psychologically the Liberal Class simply lost all its will to fight.
Chris Hedges, in his book The Death of the Liberal Class , had speculated that the cause of death was gullibility. This was a contributing factor. Liberalism had been foolish enough to believe that it could change the political class from within the system. It had believed that elections and voting for the lesser evil would buy it time. The priority was always to vote for the lesser evil in "this" election, while waiting for the messiah to appear in the "next" election.
The Liberal Class believed in many false messiahs. In 1976 it elected Jimmy Carter. The 1976 election took place when the Vietnam War and Watergate were still fresh in the political mind. The economy was in a shambles, and there was an oil crisis. Hyper-inflation and recession were a new phenomenon called stagflation. Liberalism hoped Carter would be the Promised One.
Carter attacked the energy crisis by calling for conservation and solar energy. He wore a sweater and turned off the lights. He put solar panels on the White House roof. Carter acted as if he was a God-fearing pious man. He talked about peace in the Middle East, and nuclear arms reduction.
In the end, Carter (left) was undone by a feud with his own liberal political party, and he was angry with the American people whom he berated for having a "moral malaise". A hostile mainstream media ridiculed him and made him a laughing stock. On top of that was the Iran Hostage Crisis--
Despite Carter's come-to-Jesus lecturing he was defeated in the 1980 election by a Hollywood "B" movie actor, pitchman for General Electric and drugstore cowboy named Ronald Reagan. Undiagnosed at the time, Carter left the Liberal Class with a malignant tumor. It metastasized in the twenty-first century into the War on Terror.
Carter and his National Security Advisor, the great-game aficionado Zbigniew Brzezinski armed a band of terrorists in Afghanistan. Brzezinski later bragged that he and Carter egged the Soviet Union into a Vietnam-style war. Revenge seemed so sweet at the time. Instead the U.S. was later hoisted by its own petard into wars that would never end.
Carter's Afghan war lead to the destruction of that developing nation. Afghan women were launched back into the future of the 13th century, and the war killed over a million Afghan men, women and children. Carter's chickens hatched into the attacks on the U.S. of September 11, 2001. For over forty years Afghanistan has been a humanitarian disaster, because of a liberal president's meddling.
After 12 years in the wilderness of Reaganomics, Thatcherism, and Papa Bush, the Liberal Class thought that it had been sent another messiah by the name of William Jefferson Clinton. Ironically, Clinton was from Hope--Hope, Arkansas. Hope was the Liberal Class's drug of choice. It kept looking for higher-highs, and instead got lower-lows.
Clinton was a New Democrat. What the New Democratic Coalition called being committed to pro-economic growth, pro-innovation, and fiscally responsible policies. In other words, Clinton was a neoliberal in sheep's clothing. It was even said that Clinton was the first black president, even though he was as white as sliced bread. [2]
Clinton slashed welfare for the poor, and flooded the prison population with African Americans. Clinton waxed eloquent about the middle class, and the Liberal Class stopped caring about the downtrodden. There was a Democrat in the White House, and the Liberal Class was loyal to the Democratic Party. Liberalism stopped caring about the problems that society caused. As Senator Joe Biden said of his 1994 crime bill, "I don't care; LOCK THEM UP". The words "PREDATORS" and "THEM" were code for young Black American men.
In the 2019 Democratic presidential debates Senator Cory Booker [himself a phony] called Joe Biden out:
"There are people right now in prison for life for drug offenses, because you stood up and used that tough-on-crime phony rhetoric that got a lot of people elected but destroyed communities like mine." [3]
Biden's tough-on-crime speech was the most crude and racist speech made on the Senate floor in modern history. Southern racist senators Strom Thurmond and Richard Russell would have been proud. They were used to the Ku Klux Klan holding Blacks down. Now the police would do it.
LISTEN HERE to Senator Strom Thurman's racist 1957 24-hour talking filibuster of the 1957 Civil Rights Act. [4] The following quote was then enough to make the youthful Liberal Class nauseous:
"There's not enough troops in the army, to force the southern people to break down segregation and admit the 'n-word' race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches---"
In the 1990s liberalism forgot about the 1960's Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements. Clinton's "crime bills" were crimes against humanity. The laws broadened the death penalty to 60 more crimes, and three strikes mandated life-time sentences. Clinton financed building more prisons, and locking up millions of people, disproportionately Black and poor. Clinton and the Liberal Class ushered in the New Jim Crow. [5] [6]
Clinton signed NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), which hastened deindustrialization, and the loss of good-paying jobs for the working class. He deregulated Wall Street, which lead to the 2008 financial collapse of the banking industry and the Great Recession. That economic meltdown resulted in the loss of 8.5 million jobs, 3 million families being kicked out of their homes, and a massive transfer of wealth to the rich. It was the worst recession since the 1930's Great Depression.
Clinton signed into law the "Iraq Liberation Act of 1998", which was used as the legal authorization by George Bush to invade Iraq in 2003. By 1995 Clinton's economic strangulation of Iraq killed 500,000 Iraqi children. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said it was "worth it", since it furthered U.S. foreign policy. So for 5 more years Clinton and Albright killed another 500,000 Iraqi children from cholera and malnutrition.
Clinton's shredding of the social contract was no surprise to the Liberal Class. It was one of Clinton's 1992 campaign promises to "restructure the social safety net". Clinton promised to "end welfare as we know it", and he did. [7]
Clinton made it tougher for the poor to qualify for benefits, he set lifetime limits, and punted the responsibility for social programs to the states, without giving them the adequate federal block grants to fund it. The Liberal Class did not object because a Democrat did it.
In 2000 George W. Bush started his criminal presidential enterprise by stealing the needed Florida electoral votes from Al Gore. The U.S. Supreme Court declared that recounting the infamous "hanging chads" violated the U.S. Constitution. Gore could have petitioned the Florida Supreme Court for a total recount of the state, but the Liberal Class advised him not to. It said that a recount would cause a tremendous uproar, make liberals look like spoilsports, and harm our democracy. So Gore conceded the purloined presidency to George W. Bush. [8]
After the attacks on the US of September 11, 2001, the Liberal Class voted in a joint resolution to give Bush the Authorization for the Use of Military Force. Democrat Barbara Jean Lee was the single vote against it. [9] Bush's War on Terror was on. Bush used the authorization to invade Afghanistan. The last big anti-war hurrah for the Liberal Class was in February 2003 against the planned invasion of Iraq. The Liberal Class's new enthusiasm for antiwar protests was short-lived.
As the oligarch class and their servants pulled one illegal outrage after another the Liberal Class barely made a whimper. Assassinations, torture, kidnappings, indefinite detention, illegal covert operations, domestic spying, persecuting whistleblowers, and shredding the Bill of Rights were overlooked and even abetted by Democrats. The Liberal Class begged for authoritarianism to keep the country safe from terrorists.
Today George Bush is being rehabilitated as a great president who just made a few mistakes. The Liberal Class forgot that Bush is a war criminal, committed crimes against humanity, and tightened the fascist grip on the U.S.A. Bush killed and destroyed millions of lives, and what was left of U.S. democracy.
Ellen DeGeneres [est. net worth $330 million] says we should be kind to war criminals even if we disagree with them. The Liberal Class agreed and said that is what America is all about.
The Liberal Class thought that the messiah had finally arrived when Barack Hussein Obama was elected president. The Liberal Class believed Obama's lies and hoped his promises of change were true. Unbeknownst, Obama had already sold out to Wall Street, the health-insurance industry, and Big Pharma. Obama went on to leveraged Bush's authoritarianism to beat down the middle class and poor. He did nothing for Blacks.
Obama went from bombing three countries to bombing seven. He made Bush's tax-cuts for the oligarchs permanent. He continued the programs of assassination, extraordinary-renditions, secret prisons, secret terrorist mercenaries, secret wars and regime-change projects.
Obama turned the New Cold War into a hotter war with Russia and China. He overthrew elected governments in Ukraine, Egypt, and Honduras. He pivoted to Asia. He destroyed the welfare state in Libya. Even Obama could not keep a straight face when he declared Venezuela a threat to the U.S. national security.
Obama is a war criminal. He committed crimes against humanity, and he killed and destroyed millions of lives. Gitmo still stands as an avatar to his lies. He illegally persecuted more whistleblowers, deported more undocumented immigrants, transferred more wealth to the rich, and militarized the police more than all previous presidents combined. Obama is the reason Trump was elected in 2016. Still, the Liberal Class adored him.
Conclusion
The Liberal Class died from irrelevance--- a disease from the 1960s that affected liberals then over the age of 30. Dementia set in during the 1990s. The Liberal Class became brain dead in 2008. Trump-derangement syndrome took over its subconscious mind in 2016. Russiagate brought on a near-fatal heart attack. Paralysis set in when Joe Biden became the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee. Covid-19 caused Liberalism's internal organs to start shutting down. The Liberal Class died because it had no purpose in life, lost the will to live, and just gave up.
Funeral services will NOT be held since The Liberal Class's friends and relatives have prior commitments with Democratic Talking Points. The Liberal Class left a note asking that instead of flowers, contributions be sent to Bernie or Bust 2024.
Principal image: Autopsy Scene (Image by Wikimedia)
Links:
[1]. "Medical Martial Law was Liberalism's Final Capitulation", [https://www.opednews.com/articles/Medical-Martial-Law-Will-B-by-David-William-Pear-Bailout_Freedom_Haiti_Internationalism-200518-238.html], May 19,2020.
[2]. Comment, Toni Morrison, The New Yorker, September 28, 1998. (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1998/10/05/comment-6543)
[3]. "The Crime-Bill Debate Shows How Short Americans' Memories Are", The Atlantic, September 12, 2019. (click here).
[4]. "The Racist Filibuster We Can't Afford to Forget", The Takaway Podcast, New York Public Radio, WNYC Studios, August 29, 2016. (https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/racist-filibuster-we-cant-afford-forget).
[5]. The New Jim Crow, Mass Incarceration in the age of Colorblindness , by Michelle Alexander. Website https://newjimcrow.com/.
[6]. "Three Strikes Basics", Stanford Law School. (https://law.stanford.edu/stanford-justice-advocacy-project/three-strikes-basics/)
[7]. "How Bill Clinton's Welfare Reform Changed America", History.com, August 29, 2019. (https://www.history.com/news/clinton-1990s-welfare-reform-facts).
[8]. "Hanging Chads: As the Florida Recount Implodes, the Supreme Court Decides Bush v. Gore", U.S. News and World Report, January 17, 2008. (https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2008/01/17/the-legacy-of-hanging-chads).
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