#Republican Neo-Nazi propagandist

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Frank Turek Interviews Mike Licona on Jesus' Resurrection | @CrossExamined

COMMENTARY:

Bart Ehrman is a propagandist for the Post Modern dialectical Marxism of the Jesus Seminar,, The Jesus Seminar may have begun as a materialistic inquiry into the components of the historical Jesus, but it has been hijacked by John Dominic Crossan as a Post Modern weapon against the British crown in Northern Ireland, Crossan is a charming Irish Fabian who is right out of the Polugh and the Stars and, for all  intents and purposes, a chaplain for the  IRA, His thesis is to equate Judea during the 1st Century before the destruction of the Temple to Ireland during the Potato Famine under John Bull. Among other things Jesus was transformational and not a revolutionary, The people around him may have been, but He wasn't, Jesus was preaching what has become Pauline Theology as interpreted by N.T. Wright and the subtext to His ethic, as captured in Romans 13:1 - 7, was that Israel should embrace Pax Romana and transform the governing construct of the pre-Saul Judges by retaining the separation of powrrs of Priest, Prophet and King,  incorporating the King is a republican structure similar to the Roman Empire and include the People with a voice in the government structures. In words, pretty much the way Israel is organized today   The Post Modern Historic Deconstruction is the ideological construct the Students for a Democratic Society imposed on the American university system after the occupation of Columbia to justify their  avoidance of military service under the Seelctive Service System. They have a number of noble sounding rationalizations, but it basically came down to the fact that they were all scared shitless of going to Vietnam and/or interrupting their business career to play soldier for tow years like Elvis. The political strategy for the SDS was based on Trotsky's Insurgency Process that Castro had successfully implemented in Cuba . The Port Huron Statement in 1962 adopted this construct and actively exercised the dialectical Marxism in their expressed ideological methodology that resulted in the Police Riots in Chicago in 1968, Campus radicals like Jimmy Tabor employed these methods in their academic career to stay in school and avoid the draft , even after the draft ended with the All Volunteer Military, In the final analysis, Jimmy Tabor and Dom Crossan continue to advocate the radical agenda of the Weather Underground against the dominant social contract inherent in the federal government,   The irony of course, is taht the pro-war Conservative draft dodgers from the 60s have adopted the Post Modern libertarian logic of William F. buckley and Ayn Rand and created the Supply Side economics of white supremacy that has dominated American governmetn policy since 1981 and led directly to the January 6 attempt at the hostile take=over of America, by MAGA Conservatives and the neo-Nazi Jesus Freaks of Christian Nationalism, The thing is, Bart Ehrman has become a useful idiot and force multiplier for Christian Nationalism with the moral confusion generated by his business model based on his unsubstantiated claims of textual corruption. Cornelius the centurion featured in Acts 10 is the author of the Gospel of Mark and it is anchored on Pilate's lost euangelion to Tiberius conveying the the Talking Cross as the ratification of the blood covenant between the god of Jesus and the centurions in the Italian Cohort as represented by Cornelius. We know from Tertullian that Pilate sent this euagelion as an intelligence report to Rome and that  Tiberius acted upon it, We know from Tertullian that the Roman soldiers were calling Jewish Jesus Followers "Christians" before Jesus was arrested  We also know that this euangelion emerged from the events reported in Mark 15:1 - 16:9 We can infer from the universal SOPs of a diplomatic/military mission such as Pilate's role in Judea would have generated such an euangelion and that the "Tidings of Joy" was the Talking Cross which has been captured in the Gospel of Peter which was Peter's reemergence of the contents of th euangelion as told to him by Cornelius off-stage in Acts 10  And we know that the euangelion that Peter employed to vet Paul's version of the Gospel included not only the Gospel of Peter but Peter's confession of Jesus's ministry contained in Acts 10: 34 - 43, which become the narrative arc of the Gospel of Mark and which validates Gary Habermas's thesis that Christian doctrine emerged immediately after the ascension and Pentecost. All of which squash the Post Modern fairy tale of Bart Ehram, Jimmy Tabor, and Dom Crossans Jesus Seminar into dialectical mush which attempts to substitute the premise that the Gospel of Mark is derivative of Pauline Theology and was written after the Jerusalem Apocalypse, The Jesus Seminar is like the Oliver Stone version of Vietnam: it is based on the ideological convenience of a political agenda to enforce the narrative of conventional wisdom in the same manner as the ""Stop the Steal" campaign of the January 6 Reason.  

[sol1056]

I see the propaganda's already ramping up for the next US election cycle. Under all the outrage here is what amounts to an argument of "only vote for the perfect candidate" which is just one step shy of the conclusion you're left to make on your own: why bother voting? It's clearly pointless.

I appreciate why some people are single-issue voters, but frankly that's a luxury most of us actual americans can't afford. Especially when you're arguing we should die on any hill that plays directly into Republican hands.

That's how we'll get Trump again, just like we did in 2016. Right, the guy already spouting clear and obvious neo-nazi rhetoric; the guy (and his cronies) who've effectively promised there won't be another election after them, who see warfare on anyone and everyone as in the cards. Any ground anyone gained in the past four years will all be destroyed under the new permanent Republican authoritarian theocracy.

In comparison, Biden has really never has been a noisy politician. If I were to rate his weaknesses, the worst has got to be that he's achieved incredible cross-partisan victories in the US' polarized environment, but he's never thrown a parade about any of it. (Unlike the opposition, who do it even when they lost, even when it was actually a Dem-driven win.) In four years, Biden's achieved important legislation for marginalized people, women, queer communities, and working-class folk.

Maybe you're only in one category, or several, or none, but that doesn't make those wins any less important for the many, many Americans he helped. And the complaint that since you weren't helped for one specific issue, that you'll freely disregard all the other people who were helped? That strikes me as having the flavor of a selfish Republican-style whine. For all that, fine, I concede this much: Biden will never be perfect -- just like every single goddamn president before him.

Voting isn't a marriage, it's a bus ride. Smart money says choose the bus that can get us closest to where we want to go. Getting halfway there is still always better than a bus that will carry us all straight into a living totalitarian hell.

On top of all that, Biden is one guy. Like, literally ONE GUY. No president will ever be your messiah. Meanwhile, each american citizen has a mayor and local representatives, state-based representatives and senators, and Federal representatives and senators. And that's not counting the various cabinet members and advisors, at local, state, and Federal levels.

But perhaps OP missed the protests going on across the US (and the world). Or the many articles and opinion pieces and editorials pushing the US govt to make Israel end this genocide, and to broker a peace that isn't just another open-air prison.

This isn't our first rodeo either, as a country. We marched and protested to get women the vote, to end segregation, to make abortion legal, to fund AIDs treatment, to enact marriage equality. On and on. This is the work we do, as members of a democracy.

Granted, such protests have to be on a massive scale to influence the president -- but the real influence will always be through our direct representatives, at local, state, and Federal levels. They answer to us, directly, as their constituents. They're the ones who repeat our voices until we're deafening, and to keep going until the President takes this bus in the direction we want.

I find it telling that you expect political parties to do the job of enforcing our various representatives and senators into providing some outcome. That says a lot about your actual position on being part of a democracy -- because what you said is pretty much the opposite.

The ones who keep our representatives and senators doing their jobs to represent us is, and always has been, us. If you think democracy means you can just sign off and leave everything to others to handle, you're either a fool or a propagandist.

(You're certainly parroting the arguments we heard from bots and propagandists in '16 and '20. The names may have changed, but functionally, you're still playing the same game.)

The rest of us will stay in reality and make the best choice we can, and that's to choose our best bet for who'll keep this bus moving in the right direction. But that comes with the caveat that one person alone can't get that bus very far. Judging by age, wit, or looks are just a propagandist's smokescreen.

Election after election, our most productive leaders have always been those with the clout, experience, and connections to get the bus a little closer to our goals. And even with all that, a president is just one guy. One person can't do it all, and definitely can't do it alone.

For our democracy to work, it has always taken all of us doing our part to keep things going in the right direction. We speak up at town halls, write letters, make phone calls, or join protests, or all of the above. We're all on this bus together.

Democracy has never been a spectator sport.

i can't fucking believe it's literally a year out of the election, in the middle of a genocide that the whole world is watching, and I'm seeing democrats already scolding people (some of whom literally have family being killed in occupied Palestine) to vote for Biden.

are you fucking kidding me?

not only is he backing a genocide, perpetuating lies to justify this genocide, and directing domestic resources to repress people here objecting to said genocide (which should be enough already), he was also already unpopular before now, has barely done anything to counter the rising tide of Christian fascism you're all worried about, not to mention that he's old as shit and can barely get a sentence out

just from a purely logical, facts-based perspective, anyone trying to push Biden as a viable candidate right now not only doesn't care about the lives of Palestinians, but also actively wants marginalized people here to lose liberties. as far as I'm concerned, advocating for Biden is advocating for a second Trump term, because that man absolutely cannot win in the general election.

instead of wasting time scolding progressives (AGAIN) when we point out extremely valid criticisms of Genocide Joe, put that fucking energy toward canvassing for a new Dem/progressive candidate. we're a year out from the election. if you actually care about the lives of the marginalized not just internationally, but domestically as well, you have to put some fucking effort in instead of relying on the consistently-failing strategy of yelling at voters instead of demanding representatives do their fucking jobs and represent us.

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Mr. Penguin. I need help trying to understand this. but I notice that some Hard-Right/Alt-Right/Blatant Fascist used to call themselves libertarian. I'm trying to wrap my head around the fact how they went from Thomas Jefferson to Lincoln Rockwell.

Now, you might wanna take all this with a grain of salt. This is all based on my anecdotal observations and a couple historical things I've learned. Far more qualified people are still scratching their heads over the current state of American politics, so bear with me.

I think that there are a couple reasons for this happening. It's important to remember that throughout the 2000s and early 10s, there was this heavily pushed narrative that the political spectrum is linear, and it goes from left wing (most government) to right wing (least government). This is of course nonsense, but it can be pushed on an audience that doesn't know better, and it's really handy when you want to convince a bunch of people that Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were pretty much politically identical. A lot of billionare-funded propaganda like PragerU pushes this one pretty hard. This is particularly useful for convincing Americans, who generally believe the Nazis were ultimately defeated forever by the good guys in 1945, while Communism is an insidious threat to this day that will take over the world the moment you let your guard down.

Also, white supremacist rhetoric in America being wrapped up under opposing encroaching socialism/communism/etc goes back way further than this, at least to the 1920s. On top of this, far-right politics being labeled as "libertarian" was a deliberate effort to move the term away from leftists like anarcho-communists and more towards Objectivist-style politics.

So, building off of that background, you have an online environment with:

1: Far-right propagandists. People from groups like Stormfront would deliberately infiltrate online communities and start pushing manipulative talking points to cajole people further and further towards extremist right-wing politics, couching their white supremacist propaganda in nice Republican buzzwords. Neo-Völkisch groups were quite active on Tumblr.

2. Crypto-fascists: When you want to signal that you are further to the right than your average Republican and everyone assumes that means you're just more mad about taxes and the ATF, you can call yourself a libertarian. How convincing this is depends heavily on whether you can restrain yourself from posting fantasies about bombing refugees, defending the CSA, or lamenting the US joining WW2 on the side of the Allies.

3. Trend-followers. These guys care more about owning the libs than anything substantial. Your average "anti-SJW" youtubers, discourse bloggers and their hangers-on, for example. There's a Ron Swanson reaction .gif for everything, after all.

4. The tiny minority of honest-to-God right wing libertarians, who are generally too busy fighting for the right to own a ferret in California while smoking weed to notice a damn thing going on around them.

So, y'know, all these people call themselves libertarians and more or less speak the same political language. The thing is, calling yourself a classical or Jeffersonian liberal could mean you're pro-democracy and anti-aristocracy, or it could just be used as a vague "return to an idealized past" fascist buzzword. And I think that in 2016, a lot of extremists felt comfortable enough to stop pretending.

And now that we had out-and-out fascists and various types of white nationalists out in the open, this was a godsend to the "trigger the libs" types, because the political mainstream was completely unprepared for this and could only react with incredulity and mounting horror. Ultimately, Donald Trump getting elected seemed to be the "okay, masks off everyone" signal. In more ways than one.

So, yeah. As far as I can tell, that's how it happened.

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Alex Jones’ Lawyer Violated Legal Ethics By Soliciting Porn Bribes. Just How Dirty Is Marc Randazza?

Randazza, who represents conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and many other far-right extremists, had long relied on lawyer buddies to pump his public image. By their telling and his own, Randazza was a First Amendment “badass.” But he was a combative badass, even vicious, and he’d left a trail of bad blood and trampled ethics behind him.

Although Randazza had taken on legitimate free speech cases in the past, he’d grown curiously chummy with fascists and racists who use defamation, harassment and threats to silence others.

Randazza and his firm represented neo-Nazi publisher Andrew Anglin; white nationalist Republican congressional candidate Paul Nehlen; white supremacist patriarch Jared Taylor; Holocaust-denying slanderer Chuck Johnson; Pizzagate peddler Mike Cernovich; pro-rape misogynist Daryush “Roosh” Valizadeh; an alt-right member who helped organize the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia; the booking agent for white nationalist Richard Spencer; 8chan, an online message board teeming with neo-Nazis; and Gab, the alt-right social media platform where Robert Bowers, who allegedly killed 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh in October, appears to have radicalized himself.

While working as the in-house general counsel for gay pornographers a few years ago, he solicited bribes, embraced conflicts of interest, relied on ill-gotten privileged information to gain a legal advantage, made misrepresentations about his fees to various courts and despoiled evidence of his treachery, according to an arbitrator’s findings, sworn statements in legal proceedings, interviews with opposing counsel, Randazza’s own admissions and thousands of pages of court records.

In almost every interview, Randazza describes himself as a “leftist” or a “libtard” or “so liberal” that he’s “practically a communist,” which when he listed his party affiliation as the Socialist Workers Party, according to Florida voter registration records.  But it wasn’t in 2000, when Randazza volunteered for John McCain’s presidential campaign. Since at least 2002, Randazza has been a registered and active Republican voter,  according to both Florida and Nevada records.

He partied with rape apologist Mike Cernovich and Gavin McInnes, the founder of the Proud Boys, a fascist gang that commits political violence throughout the country.  Other pro-Trump racists and “free speech advocates” were there, yukking it up about “brown people” and “faggots” and the genitalia of transgender women.  Randazza also appears routinely on Infowars to lend a legal imprimatur to the lies of hate-spewing, violence-stoking propagandist Alex Jones.

Randazza has gone into business with at least one of his extremist clients, having co-produced both of Cernovich’s films. The most recent one, “Hoaxed,” is a propaganda reel *that appears to demonize the free press and relies on figures such as Jones and Stefan Molyneux, another important conduit to white nationalism.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/alex-jones-lawyer-marc-randazza_us_5c1c283ae4b08aaf7a86b9e4

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Resistance Tribute: Part 4 UNCLE SAM’S MIRACLE CURE FOR THE COMMON PEOPLE – by the Lone Antifa & the Canuck Crank – revised & updated Oct 30, 2022

As Americans prepare for their crucial Midterm elections, MFF responds by showcasing one of our more ambitious commentaries on Yankee politics. We offer a newly revised and much expanded edition of our USA DEFIANCE & SURVIVAL MANIFESTO – which was originally done as an attempt to sway US voters, leading up to the 2018 Midterms.

It begins with a prologue presenting a ferocious satirical vision of a nightmare future under GOP rule, in an alternative timeline. This is followed by 8 thematic playlists of music and comedy videos, exploring America's mythology, its harsher realities, and hope for its future. The accompanying image galleries recount a fanciful tall tale of Uncle Sam and Captain America battling the ORANGE IMPOTUS – who is cleverly disguised as the RED SKULL, one of the most iconic Marvel supervillains. You can access this ridiculously epic fable at the links below.

The embedded videos above include two patriotic UNCLE SAM profiles – outlining the evolution of this beloved figure, and a fascinating variety of alternative US symbols. There's also an entertaining overview of Uncle Sam comic books, from the 1940s onward; the trailer for a silly and tasteless slasher satire poking fun at the old boy; and a Civil War song about Irish troops who fought for the Union forces.

As for whether a new civil war may still engulf Uncle Sam's fair land, we don't feel qualified to speculate. However, we have great respect for the words of a former Republican Party strategist, who courageously came to his senses some time ago. STEVE SCHMIDT posted the following forceful statement as a Twitter thread this past July. While he is perhaps a tad pessimistic, this is nevertheless a most astute and sobering reality check on where American politics may very well be headed after this year's Midterms – and we certainly couldn't say it any better.

Donald Trump will be the GOP nominee in 2024. The 2022 and 2024 elections will decide if democracy survives in this country. It is as simple as that. Donald Trump repeatedly asked advisors to cancel the 2020 election because of Covid. He wanted the US military to open fire against peaceful protesters. He is profoundly dangerous. His movement is profoundly dangerous.

Trump has embraced and emboldened extremist groups that include neo-Nazis, white supremacists, fascist thugs, violent militias, anti semites, and conspiracy loons. Trump's extremist movement is sustained by donations from some of the largest companies and richest individuals in America.

It is fueled by a propaganda lie-machine that is hubbed by Fox News – and sustained by a cacophony of lies and insanities, that are spewed forth by lesser propagandists on talk radio, newspapers, streaming services, etc.

Trump and his lieutenants – like Kevin McCarthy, Greg Abbott, Ted Cruz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert,  Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, Elise Stefanik, Josh Hawley, [and] Tucker Carlson – have made their intentions perfectly clear. They have become faithless to the Republic. They have chosen power over patriotism – and in doing so, have desecrated the sacrifice of every American patriot who has ever fought to preserve and expand liberty.

Delusions around who these people are – and what they will do, if they take political power in this country again – are just as crazy, and maybe more so, than the worst of the anti-vaccine insanity. We have no excuses with regard to understanding the danger, corruption, lying, malice, and bad faith of Trump and his movement.

American democracy won’t be lost in a coup or insurrection. It will be lost in an election – where the autocrats and fascists, that have screamed their hostility to our highest ideals from the rooftop, get more votes than the pro-democracy side. There will always be more people in America who reject autocracy and Trump, than support him. The question is whether there are going to be enough to fight back against this, or not.

These two things can both be true. Joe Biden is a good man, and doing a great job as POTUS. Donald Trump and his fascist movement have [also] had a very good 7 months. They aren’t 'former' anythings. They are a CLEAR and PRESENT DANGER.

The Pro-Democracy coalition is sleep walking into the 2022 election – and the stakes couldn’t be higher. What will we tell our grandchildren? I suppose the truth will be this: we lost our Republic to the people who told us they despised it – because the fools who should have defended it didn’t believe they were telling the truth.

THE LAST CRUSADE OF UNCLE SAM’S ACTIONEERS https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/177613773630/video-gallery-1-destroyer-of-worlds-2-lost-in-a WHEN AMERICA WAS GREAT https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/178087639820/usa-defiance-survival-manifesto-part-one-by HOLLYWOOD’S BIG PARADE https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/178087587390/usa-defiance-survival-manifesto-part-two-by THE DIVIDED STATES OF AMERICA https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/178087533565/usa-defiance-survival-manifesto-part-three-by THE ORANGE PERIL https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/178087477215/usa-defiance-survival-manifesto-part-four-by NEVERTHELESS THEY PERSISTED https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/178087339925/usa-defiance-survival-manifesto-part-five-by RAGES AGAINST THE MACHINES https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/178087293970/usa-defiance-survival-manifesto-part-six-by THE DYINGS OF THE LIGHT https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/178087225745/usa-defiance-survival-manifesto-part-seven-by QUESTS FOR BETTER ANGELS https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/178087149645/usa-defiance-survival-manifesto-part-eight-by

[surly01]

The Avatar of American Apartheid

The Trump years have revealed new truths about our relatives, neighbors, and friends. Or former friends. They have embraced the Avatar of American Apartheid.

We’ve had to open our eyes to the fact that some with whom we’ve happily shared parts of our lives stand revealed as racist to the core. Just fine with kidnapping and incarceration of immigrant children, forced family separations, and compulsory hysterectomies for some refugee women. OK with cancellation of decades of environmental regulation and climate change denial. OK with the negligent homicide that comprises the administration’s Covid-19 response. Enthused about deploying anonymized companies of military-style shock troops into the streets to “black bag” protesters and gas peaceful demonstrators exercising their First Amendment rights. Fully embracing the author of 20,000-plus lies, the serial sexual assaults, the mind-bending attacks on institutions great and small.

Enough. I am not fine with any of the above, nor am I fine with those who are.

Some reading this might protest, “But I’m not a racist. I have a black friend/co-worker/neighbor, etc.” The election of the first Black President led many believe that we had entered a “post-racial society.” In arguments elsewhere about structural racism in the US, my opponents have cited Obama’s election as proof that race issues were now over.  Would that it were so. Trump’s election has revealed American Apartheid as it really is. Howard Zinn and others have brought the receipts to show American history is a procession of mass murder and colonial appropriation, an uncomfortable truth we remain unwilling to hear. And the resurgence of the hard edge of neo-confederate militia rage and racist taunts from Charlottesville to Michigan highlight the dark stain on America’s soul.

America is as divided as it was in the 1850s, in that tense time of conflict before the Civil War. The windfall of territories gained in the wake of the War with Mexico led to arguments about how those territories would be apportioned between slave states and free states. This led to the Compromise of 1850, a package of bills abolishing slavery in Washington DC, admission to the Union of California as a free state, and enhancement of the Fugitive Slave Act. This last required northern magistrates to act as agents and slavecatchers for southern slave-owners. The Compromise also provided for existing territories to be admitted as “slave” or “free” depending on the inhabitants’ electoral will. This led to “Bleeding Kansas,” those battles waged between roving bands of abolitionists and slaveholders, and where abolitionist John Brown made his bones.  A period of widespread domestic terror.

Much has been made of the rural-urban divide, which is actually the 21st-century code for racism. In a recent National Review column, Rich Lowry observed that Trump is

“the foremost symbol of resistance to the overwhelming woke cultural tide that has swept along the media, academia, corporate America, Hollywood, professional sports, the big foundations, and almost everything in between,” including “the 1619 Project.”

Those who live in Trump country, where the KKK still has a relatively strong established presence, care little for what he does as long as it gives them license to hate liberals. The bigger the outrage, the louder the applause. Thus when Trump said, “he could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue...,” he was correct. Non-Trump-cult members who wonder “how can they still back Trump after this scandal or the next” fail to understand the underlying motivating factor of his support. It’s “fuck liberals.” Since according minorities their constitutionally-guaranteed rights would require an acknowledgement of America’s actual history of racism, it is vigorously opposed by change-resistant conservatives determined to preserve the prerogatives of white entitlement.

Attempts to have a logical, rational conversation with Trumpists invariably reveals a person who believes their well-being depends upon avoiding things they’d rather not know. Or who will replace evidence with an alternative set of facts, generally created of whole cloth and breathed into life like a golem through repetition in right-wing media.

Consider QAnon, that hatchery of right-wing fucknuttery. Scratch their “Save the Children�� marketing disguise and find revealed a narrative similar to that in the most influential anti-Jewish pamphlet of all time, “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” This was written by Russian anti-Jewish propagandists around 1902. Central to the mythology was the Blood Libel, which claimed that Jews kidnapped and slaughtered Christian children and drained their blood to mix in the dough for matzos consumed on Jewish holidays.

Consider the current package of accusations:

A secret cabal is taking over the world. They kidnap children, slaughter, and eat them to gain power from their blood. They control high positions in government, banks, international finance, the news media, and the church. They want to disarm the police. They promote homosexuality and pedophilia. They plan to mongrelize the white race so it will lose its essential power.

Thus are “The Protocols” repackaged by QAnon for Americans largely ignorant of history. Some have even suggested that QAnon is a Nazi cult, rebranded. What is appalling is that so many of our neighbors, relatives, and “friends” are so credulous.

As David Pollard has observed,

Trump’s support among white males remains basically unchanged over the past four years. This, not Republicans, is his real base — a clear majority of white males continue to support Trump, and it hasn’t been that long since they were the only people allowed to vote. Whites, and male whites moreso, have voted against every Democratic presidential candidate since the civil rights movement of the 1960s. And let’s be clear — I didn’t say, old white males. Young white males of all voting-age groups remain committed, almost as much as their older counterparts, to support Trump. Their entrance into the voting age cohorts has barely caused a ripple in the plurality of white males supporting Trump. That may surprise you until you consider that a disproportionate number (about half) of young voters are nonwhite (only a quarter of boomers are nonwhite), so looking at the entire youth cohort’s seemingly progressive attitudes obscures the reality that most young whites hew to the same extreme right-wing politics that the majority of old whites subscribe to; there’s just fewer of them.

We’ll leave it for you to consider that it means that a majority of white males of all ages are knowingly prepared to vote again for a blatantly corrupt candidate, a pathological liar, mentally deranged, uninformed, racist, sexist, utterly without principle, and increasingly untethered to reality. One whose “White House Science Office” takes credit for ‘ending’ the pandemic as infections mount to all-time highs.

But after 20,000 lies, who’s left to quibble?

“I love the poorly educated.” Donald J. Trump 

Trump may lose the election, but white American males (and some true-believing females) aren’t going anywhere. They are the product of our systemically racist, sexist, patriarchal culture, born to preserve the prerogatives of white men of property while denying justice to the nonwhite, the native, the immigrant, the female, the “weak.” While they also control the courts, the banks, the legal system, and law enforcement, created in their likeness to support and preserve white male power, they are quick to snap into a well-practiced victim pose whenever challenged.

This past summer, members of the ShutDownDC movement protested at Chad Wolf’s home. They said,

“We know there are no career consequences for these men and women. We know there are no financial consequences for these men and women. We know there are no legal consequences for these men and women. We must make social consequences for these men and women. We must make it uncomfortable for them. We will not be good Germans. We will not be the people who sat by and watched our neighbors commit these atrocities and said nothing because their kids were home.”

The differences between both sides of a culture war are as strong as the conflict between “slave” and “free” in the 1850s, and are likewise framed in moral absolutes. No matter what happens on or after November 3, Trumpism remains with or without Trump. How will we live with its followers?. And whether or not there are “consequences” for their actions, the stink of Trump will never wash away, and what has been seen can’t be unseen. Nor will it be forgotten.

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4thWorldRadyo // Bromancing Russia w/ Indiscreet Concupiscence: Deconstructing the Ideological neo-Fascist Bromance Between Far-Right Extremists and the (Anglophone) Hard-Left

- Summary: FWR host @TheAngryindian continues to explore the not-so-odd ideological relationship(s) between various factions of the far-right and elements of the far-left – that by philosophical and historical rights – should be dead-set against everything the neo-Nazi/White Nationalist/pro-Xenophobic milieu is about as opposed to active support for their neo-fascist madness.

EXTRAS: Harvested news media quips, including audio of violent, anti-Immigration #HateSpeech from far-right Republican propagandist Ann Coulter quoting Voltaire to justify the racist murder of immigrants and is answered in logical style by Tom Russell, ‘Who's Gonna Build Your Wall?’; the usual mix of archived progressive PSA’s an audio version of an underrated documentary asking if German fascist leader Adolf Hitler was a closeted Homosexual. All this and much more on, 4WR. The official internet radio broadcast of the Aboriginal Press News Service Listen / Download: 00:00:00 -- (mp3) / (ogg) - Further Reading:

Tom Russell: 'Who's Gonna Build Your Wall?' : NPR

“The Hidden Hitler” by Lothar Machtan – Salon.com

Trump, fascism and democracy: Here’s what Madeleine Albright can’t or won’t say – Salon.com

IN PICTURES: How German women suffered largest mass rape in history by Soviets - Al Arabiya English

Stormfront Users Say Site Is Collapsing Because Founder's Wife Stopped Paying for It – VICE

Soccer Fans Are Back To Hurling Yellow, Banana-Shaped Objects At Black Players [UPDATE]

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Trump Was Supposed to Talk About Tax Cuts. We Got Rape, Immigrants, and Voter Fraud Instead. – Mother Jones

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By Sarah Posner, March 20, 2017...Illustration by Brian Reedy Back

�� in August 2015, when Donald Trump’s presidential ambitions were widely considered a joke, Russell Moore was worried. A prominent leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, Moore knew that some of the faithful were falling for Trump, a philandering, biblically illiterate candidate from New York City whose lifestyle and views embodied everything the religious right professed to abhor. The month before, a Washington Post poll had found that Trump was already being backed by more white evangelicals than any other Republican candidate.

Moore, a boyish-looking pastor from Mississippi, had positioned himself as the face of the “new” religious right: a bigger-hearted, diversity-oriented version that was squarely opposed to Trump’s “us versus them” rhetoric. Speaking to a gathering of religion reporters in a hotel ballroom in Philadelphia, Moore said that his “first priority” was to combat the “demonizing” and “depersonalizing” of immigrants—people, he pointed out, who were “created in the image of God.” Only by refocusing on such true “gospel” values, Moore believed, could evangelicals appeal to young people who had been fleeing the church in droves, and expand its outreach to African Americans and Latinos.

Evangelicals needed to do more than win elections—their larger duty was to win souls. Moore, in short, wanted the Christian right to reclaim the moral high ground—and Trump, in his estimation, was about as low as you could get.

“The church of Jesus Christ ought to be the last people to fall for hucksters and demagogues,” Moore wrote in Onward: Engaging the Culture Without Losing the Gospel, a book he had just published at the time. “

But too often we do.

”As Trump continued gaining ground in the polls, Moore began to realize that the campaign represented nothing short of a battle for the soul of the Christian right. By backing Trump, white evangelicals were playing into the hands of a new, alt-right version of Christianity—a sprawling coalition of white nationalists, old-school Confederates, neo-Nazis, Islamophobes, and social-media propagandists who viewed the religious right, first and foremost, as a vehicle for white supremacy.

The election, Moore warned in a New York Times op-ed last May, “has cast light on the darkness of pent-up nativism and bigotry all over the country.” Those who were criticizing Trump, he added, “have faced threats and intimidation from the ‘alt-right’ of white supremacists and nativists who hide behind avatars on social media.”

Trump, true to form, wasted no time in striking back against Moore. “Truly a terrible representative of Evangelicals and all of the good they stand for,” he tweeted a few days later. “A nasty guy with no heart!”

In the end, conservative Christians backed Trump in record numbers. He won 81 per- cent of the white evangelical vote—a higher share than George W. Bush, John McCain, or Mitt Romney. As a result, the religious right—which for decades has grounded its political appeal in moral “values” such as “life” and “family” and “religious freedom”—has effectively become a subsidiary of the alt-right, yoked to Trump’s white nationalist agenda. Evangelicals have traded Ronald Reagan’s gospel-inspired depiction of America as a “shining city on a hill” for Trump’s dark vision of “American carnage.” And in doing so, they have returned the religious right to its own origins—as a movement founded to maintain the South’s segregationist “way of life.”

“The overwhelming support for Trump heralds the religious right coming full circle to embrace its roots in racism,” says Randall Balmer, a historian of American religion at Dartmouth College. “The breakthrough of the 2016 election lies in the fact that the religious right, in its support for a thrice-married, self-confessed sexual predator, finally dispensed with the fiction that it was concerned about abortion or ‘family values.’

”For more than a generation, the Christian right has sought to portray itself as a movement motivated principally by opposition to abortion and the defense of sexual purity against the forces of secularism. According to its own creation myth, evangelicals rose up and began to organize in opposition to Roe v. Wade, motivated by their duty to protect “the unborn.” Albert Mohler, a prominent Southern Baptist theologian, described Roe as “the catalyst for the moral revolution within evangelicalism”—the moment that spurred the coalition with conservative Catholics that still undergirds the religious right.

In fact, it wasn’t abortion that sparked the creation of the religious right. The movement was actually galvanized in the 1970s and early ’80s, when the IRS revoked the tax-exempt status of Bob Jones University and other conservative Christian schools that refused to admit nonwhites. It was the government’s actions against segregated schools, not the legalization of abortion, that “enraged the Christian community,” Moral Majority co-founder Paul Weyrich has acknowledged.

By openly embracing the racism of the alt-right, Trump effectively played to the religious right’s own roots in white supremacy. Richard Spencer, president of the National Policy Institute and the alt-right’s most visible spokesman, argued during the campaign that GOP voters aren’t really motivated by Christian values, as they profess, but rather by deep racial anxieties. “Trump has shown the hand of the GOP,” Spencer told me in September. “The GOP is a white person’s populist party.”

Until now, the alt-right has presented itself largely as an irreligious movement; Spencer, its outsize figurehead, is an avowed atheist. But with Trump as president, the alt-right sees an opening for its own religious revival. “A new type of Alt Right Christian will become a force in the Religious Right,” Spencer tweeted on the morning after the election, “and we’re going to work with them.”

To alt-right Christians, Trump’s appeal isn’t based on the kind of social-issue litmus tests long favored by the religious right. According to Brad Griffin, a white supremacist activist in Alabama, “the average evangelical, not-too-religious Southerner who’s sort of a populist” was drawn to Trump primarily “because they like the attitude.” Besides, he adds, many on the Christian right don’t necessarily describe themselves as “evangelical” for theological reasons; it’s more “a tribal marker for a lot of these people.”

Before the election, Griffin worried that white evangelicals would find his “Southern nationalist�� views problematic. But Trump’s decisive victory over Russell Moore reassured him. “It seems like evangelicals really didn’t follow Moore’s lead at all,” Griffin says. “All these pastors and whatnot went in there and said Trump’s a racist, a bigot, and a fascist and all this, and their followers didn’t listen to them.”

There is no way of knowing how many Americans consider themselves to be alt-right Christians—the term is so new, even those who agree with Spencer and Griffin probably wouldn’t use it to describe themselves. But there is plenty of evidence that white evangelical voters are more receptive than nonevangelicals to the ideas that drive the alt-right. According to an exit poll of Republican voters in the South Carolina primary, evangelicals were much more likely to support banning Muslims from the United States, creating a database of Muslim citizens, and flying the Confederate flag at the state capitol. Thirty-eight percent of evangelicals told pollsters that they wished the South had won the Civil War—more than twice the number of nonevangelicals who held that view.

That’s why white evangelicals were the key to Trump’s victory—they provided the numbers that the alt-right lacks. Steve Bannon, Trump’s most influential strategist, knows that the nationalist coalition alone isn’t big enough “to ever compete against the progressive left”—which is why he made a point of winning over the religious right. If conservative Catholics and evangelicals “just want to focus on reading the Bible and being good Christians,” Bannon told me last July, “there’s no chance we could ever get this country back on track again.” The alt-right supplied Trump with his agenda; the Christian right supplied him with his votes.

For alt-right Christians, Russell Moore is the embodiment of where the religious right went wrong—by refusing to openly embrace racism. Throughout his youth, Griffin says, he felt alienated by Christians like Moore who were intent on “condemning racism.” He was only drawn back into Christianity when he married the daughter of Gordon Baum, a far-right Lutheran leader who co-founded the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens, described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as “a virulently racist group.” Griffin says he joined the CCC, as well as the white nationalist League of the South, because both groups embody the elements he views as integral to his faith: They are “pro-white, pro-Christian, pro-South.”Moore has become a popular target among alt-right Christians. The white supremacist and popular alt-right radio show host James Edwards, himself a Southern Baptist, regularly disparages Moore on his program, calling him a “cuck-Christian.” In June, after the Southern Baptist Convention banned displays of the Confederate flag, Edwards hosted Nathanael Strickland, proprietor of the Faith and Heritage blog. In a recent post, Strickland had argued that white Southerners “have faced a widespread and determined assault on our heritage, symbols, monuments, graves, and identity by secular and governmental forces,” and likened such supposed attacks to what Hitler claimed in Mein Kampf: that Germans faced “cultural extermination and ethnic cleansing.” Edwards seconded that analysis, declaring the Confederate flag “a Christian flag,” and arguing that to attack it “is to deny the sovereignty, the majesty, and the might of Lord Jesus Christ in his divine role in Southern history, culture, and life.”

Strickland recently told me that alt-right Christians see “racial differences” as “real, biological, and positive,” a view he insists is “merely a reaffirmation of traditional historical Christianity.” He argues that many on the alt-right who consider themselves atheists or pagans only lost their faith in Christianity “due to the antiwhite hatred and Marxist dogma held by the modern church.”

Strickland considers himself a “kinist,” part of the new white supremacist movement that, according to the Anti-Defamation League, “uses the Bible as one of the main texts for its beliefs,” offering a powerful validation to white supremacists for their racism and anti-Semitism. Strickland sees kinism as a successor to Christian Reconstructionism, a theocratic movement dating back to the 1960s that played a key role in the rise of Christian homeschooling. The movement’s primary goal was to implement biblical law—including public stonings—in every facet of American life.

After Trump’s victory, Edwards ferociously attacked the president-elect’s critics, Bible in hand. “The Bible says, ‘There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth,’ and I want there to be that,” he said on his show. “Now is the time for retribution, and I want them to suffer. I want them to feel the righteous anger of a good and decent people. I want Trump to drive them into the sea.” He called on the “degenerates, perverts, and freaks,” and other “criminals who shilled for Hillary” to “make good on your promise to leave the country.” He added: “They can take Russell Moore with them on the way. That’s for sure. Good riddance. Please leave.”

Alt-right Christians like Edwards see their movement as part of a global battle for ethnic nationalism. Days before the election, neo-Nazis assembled at a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to show their support for Trump. Matthew Heimbach, an alt-right Christian leader who founded the Traditionalist Worker Party, told the crowd they were in a worldwide struggle for the preservation of “ethnic, cultural, and religious integrity,” a battle that has been joined by “nationalists around the world that are fighting the same enemy.” That enemy, Heimbach said, is made up of “Jewish oligarchs and the capitalists and the bankers” who “want to enslave the entire world.” He ticked off some of the movement’s international allies: President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, who has overseen a Hitler-inspired campaign of extrajudicial killings, and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has displaced and slaughtered millions of his own citizens. To Heimbach, Assad “is fighting to defend his people against the globalist hydra of Saudi Arabia, of the terrorist state of Israel, and United States interests.”

Heimbach, who made headlines last March for shoving a Black Lives Matter protester at a Trump rally, also draws inspiration from the far-right Russian writer Alexandr Dugin, whose book, The Fourth Political Theory, he considers “suggested reading” for all Traditionalist Worker Party members. Dugin’s writings reinforced Heimbach’s belief, he says, that “we must reject the failed and flawed concepts of democracy, capitalism, equality of ability, and multiculturalism.” To alt-right Christians like Heimbach, democracy itself is a failed and flawed concept.

Some, in fact, believe that Trump does not go far enough in defending the faith. Strickland, for example, views Trump as merely a “civic nationalist,” not a full-blown racial and ethnic nationalist like those on the alt-right. “There are four legs supporting the table of civilization,” he says. “Blood, religion, culture, and language. Civic nationalists only acknowledge the last three of those.” In Strickland’s view, the alt-right must now become Trump’s “loyal opposition,” prodding the president even further to the right. “The alt-right’s job in the coming months and years will be to solidify nationalism’s place in the Republican Party and push the importance of the fourth leg—blood.

”With the religious right now at the service of the alt-right, conservative evangelicals who opposed Trump find themselves at odds with the movement they helped to build. Reverend Rob Schenck was one of the leaders of the religious right’s war on abortion, famously getting arrested in 1992 at a women’s health clinic while carrying “Baby Tia,” a preserved fetus he claimed had been aborted. Through his organization, Faith and Action, Schenck has long provided spiritual counsel to top Washington officials, including Supreme Court justices and members of Congress like Mike Pence. Trump, he says, has no spiritual side whatsoever. “He has no facility in the language of faith,” Schenck told me in November, a week after the election. “At all. It’s not natural to him. It’s not even known to him. It’s alien.”

Two days before we spoke, Trump had announced his selection of Steve Bannon as his chief White House strategist. To Schenck, the religious right’s support for the appointment was another “screaming alarm to American evangelicals that we must do some very deep soul-searching.”

But such soul-searching does not appear to be forthcoming. So far, President Trump has drawn little but praise from religious right leaders. From his first days in office, he moved swiftly to shore up their support. He quickly brought back George W. Bush’s “global gag rule,” signing an executive order that bars federally funded groups not only from providing abortions to pregnant women, but from even discussing abortion as an option. And his nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court thrilled even Russell Moore, who hailed the selection of “a brilliant and articulate defender of Constitutional originalism.” Trump’s strategy makes sense: He’ll keep evangelicals happy and unified by moving some of their key priorities forward—and use their support to push for what is ultimately an alt-right agenda. Schenck fears that “Trump and his gang” have exposed an evangelical culture “that doesn’t know itself.” Sitting in his Capitol Hill townhouse, Schenck picks up his copy of Ethics, by the anti-Nazi theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer, he says, argued that because Jesus was a “man for others,” Christians are called “not to hold the other in contempt, or to be afraid of the other, or contemptuous of the other.” Yet when Schenck visited evangelical churches during the Obama years, he lost count of how many times he was asked, quite earnestly: “Is the president the Antichrist?”

Schenck still holds out hope, as does Moore, that a new generation of evangelicals will ultimately reject what Trump and the alt-right represent. “I do think something is going to emerge out of this catastrophe,” he says. “It’s going to help us to define what is true evangelical religion and what is not.”

But for now, he concedes, the religious right has forfeited its moral standing by aligning itself with the alt-right’s gospel of white supremacy. “Evangelicals are a tool of Donald Trump,” Schenck says. “This could be the undoing of American evangelicalism. We could just become a political operation in the guise of a church.”

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A screenshot of the suspicious text started making the rounds on social networks Wednesday.

""Hi, it' 27; s Patsy here w/Beto for Texas. Our records suggest that you' 27; re a fan,"the text read, supposedly originating from a volunteer for Texas Senate confident Beto O 27; Rourke 27; s project."We remain in search of volunteers to assist transportation "undocumented immigrants to ballot cubicles so that they will have the ability to vote. Would you have the ability to support this grassroots effort?"

The text did stem from a service called Relay, which O 27; Rourke 27; s volunteers utilize to call possible citizens. The message itself-- promoting obvious citizen scams-- wasn 27; t approved by the project."It was sent out by an impostor," O 27; Rourke 27; s interactions director Chris Evans stated in a declaration. The opposing Ted Cruz'project has actually stated they had absolutely nothing to do with it either. Within a day, Relay closed down the account behind the fake solicitation.

The scam was temporary, and, Relay CEO Daniel Souweine guarantees WIRED, is"an overall outlier, "amongst the countless texts that have actually been sent out through the platform this cycle. But, the whole experience exposes a mostly undiscussed and brand-new battlefield in the details war being battled on practically every digital front.

Ironically, the text started flowing online simply as magnates from both Facebook and Twitter appeared prior to Congress , setting out their strategies to avoid giants and propagandists from utilizing their platforms to spread out disinformation. They mentioned utilizing expert system and legions of human mediators to root out bad habits, while legislators guaranteed policy to keep the business responsible.

The more barrier to entry you have, the less most likely giants are to leap through them. 27;

Relay CEO Daniel Souweine

Meanwhile, a growing variety of projects and political groups are depending on texting tools that have essentially no guardrails at all. They permit any project volunteer to access a list of telephone number, and send out whatever message they please. Due to the fact that volunteers send out each message separately, and have the flexibility to modify exactly what every one states, these so-called peer-to-peer texts prevent the regulative constraints the Federal Communications Commission puts on robotexts. Throughout the 2016 election, both the Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders projects showed the efficiency of the technique, causing a spike in activity in the added to the midterm elections this fall.

Despite their unexpected development, these young business have actually cannot get ready for the kind of control that has actually pestered other, bigger tech platforms. Rather, they leave it to the projects to completely veterinarian their volunteers, simply as they would a phone-banker or in-person canvasser.

"The more barriers to entry you have, the less most likely giants are to leap through them,"states Souweine, who established Relay after leading Sanders 27; nationwide texting program in 2016.

He learnt about the bogus O 27; Rourke text the method many people did: On Twitter. Relay rapidly closed down the account', however Souweine decreased to share information about the criminal, stating it 27; s approximately the project to examine who the individual was and what does it cost? damage they did. Inning accordance with Evans', "not a big quantity of messages,"were sent out, however the interactions director decreased to offer "a particular number," and didn 27; t react to duplicated ask for remark about whether and how the project keeps track of'volunteers 27; texts.

All it requires to register as a texter for O 27; Rourke is submitting a type on his web page. You then get an e-mail with directions for establishing a Slack and Relay account, and a connect to a website where you can register for a shift. The e-mail includes training YouTube videos, which describe how all of it works. Volunteers log into Relay, where the project concerns them a preloaded script and list of individuals to call. It takes about 30 minutes to click send out on each specific text, and volunteers are totally free to modify the message as they please. About 10 to 15 percent of citizens respond, inning accordance with the video, when they do, the project provides a list of scripted reactions about, for instance, where citizens can protect a backyard indication. After the texts are sent out, projects can inspect exactly what 27; s gone out for any abnormalities. In the case of the O 27; Rourke text, the damage was currently done.

Souweine highlights that exactly what occurred to O 27; Rourke 27; s project is extremely uncommon."There ’ s a little couple of times where this has actually ever ended up being a problem. You #x &put on 27; t develop software application for the edge cases," he states.

Practitioners in the field argue that exactly what took place to O 27; Rourke is the" danger you take when you employ volunteers to spread your message, no matter the medium. "Anyone can pass an odor test, end up being a door-knocker for a project, and state something insane," states Gerrit Lansing, previous chief digital officer for the Republican National Committee who cofounded the peer-to-peer texting business Opn Sesame. A minimum of texts leave a digital path behind, he includes.

True enough, however texters likewise run on a much bigger scale than the typical door-knocker. The O 27; Rourke project 27; s training videos state texters normally get in touch with 500 to 800 prospective citizens in a 30-minute duration. In the time it requires to capture a bothersome message, hundreds or'countless individuals might have been misinformed. And in a tight race like O 27; Rourke 27; s, that matters.

Some platforms have actually established tools to inform their customers to abnormalities after the reality. Left-leaning projects and companies'have actually utilized a tool called Hustle to get and send out 17.5 million political messages this year alone. Hustle utilizes automated sets off that let its staffers understand if, for example, an offered message drives an uncommonly high variety of individuals to opt-out of text entirely."Our customer success supervisors would examine in real-time,"states Roddy Lindsay, CEO of Hustle. Still, even that protect follows the reality.

27; Anyone can pass an odor test, end up being a door-knocker for a project, and state something insane. 27;

Gerrit Lansing, Opn Sesame

These dangers have actually been leading of mind recently for Sangeeth Peruri, CEOof another texting business called VoterCircle. Unlike Hustle, Relay, or Opn Sesame, VoterCircle is a friend-to-friend service, indicating that volunteers initially submit their own contact lists to see which of their pals a provided project may wish to reach. They 27; re totally free to call them by e-mail or text. This tool has actually been utilized to send out numerous countless messages throughout the Virginia gubernatorial elections and the unique election in Alabama, to name a few essential races.

During the Virginia race, Peruri states he hesitated that a few of the neo-Nazis who rallied in Charlottesville simply months prior to may aim to co-opt the Democrats 27; message. VoterCircle set up an approval system on its e-mail service: Any time somebody altered the provided script, the project would have to provide the OKAY prior to it went out. Projects had the alternative to turn this off, VoterCircle made it the default setting, implying most left it in location." We never ever saw any dubious activity, however we were secured,"Peruri states. In a couple of cases, he states, it assisted projects much better comprehend the sort of message their volunteers believed would resonate many.

For now, peer-to-peer texting stays a regulative gray location. While the FCC has rigorous guidelines around texts and robocalls, it hasn 27; t attempted to check this brand-new class of business. The market is wishing to keep it that method. Previously this year, a lobbying group called P2P Alliance, which Opn Sesame is a member, released a petition asking the FCC to clarify that peer-to-peer texting is exempt from guidelines set out in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, which limits automatic dialing and texting.

In the lack of federal standards, it 27; s as much as the business, and the projects themselves, to avoid deceptive messages from being sent out in their name. Fortunate for O 27; Rourke, the message the rogue texter sent out was outrageous sufficient to be quickly dismissed as a giant. Exactly what if a somewhat savvier bad star modified the message in a method the typical citizen could think? And exactly what if they #x &weren 27; t the only ones? Now, it 27; s not at all clear these platforms would be prepared to do much about it. Sure, this text might be an outlier today. In some cases an outlier is actually simply a caution indication.

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Putin Confronts The American Dystopia

We have to hand it to Putin. He is the best that there is. Note the ease with which he mopped up the floor with that idiot Chris Wallace. https://www.rt.com/usa/433447-putin-interview-fox-wallace/

What is wrong with the US media that it cannot produce a second competent journalist as company for Tucker Carlson? Why are America’s remaining good journalists, such as Chris Hedges, now in the alternate media?

All I can say, and Putin probably already knows it, is that there is more going on than presstitutes holding the relationship between Russia and the US hostage to an internal political struggle between the Democratic Party and President Trump. It is not just that the corrupt US media is serving as propagandists for the Democratic Party against President Trump. The presstitutes are serving the interest of the military/security complex, which has ownership interests in the highly concentrated US media, to keep Russia positioned as the enemy that justifies the huge $1,000 billion budget of the military/security complex. Without the “Russian enemy,” what is the justification for such a waste of money when so many real needs go underfunded and unfunded?

In other words, the American media are not only stupid, they are corrupt beyond all measure.

Today at 12:40 Eastern time NPR had a collection of Trump-bashers doing their utmost to prevent the Trump/Putin meeting from leading to a normalizing of relations between the two governments. For example, as every informed person knows, the US intelligence community has most certainly not concluded that Russia interfered in the presidential election. That conclusion was reached by a few hand-picked members of 3 of the 16 intelligence agencies and was expressed not as a proven fact but as “highly likely.” It other words, it was nothing but an orchestrated opinion given by cooperative agents who no doubt expect promotions in return.

Despite this known fact, the NPR propaganda team said that Trump had believed Putin instead of an unanimous US factual intelligence report that proved Russia interfered. The NPR Trump-bashers said that Trump had believed the “thug Putin” and not his own American experts. The NPR Trump-bashers went on to compare Trump’s “siding with Putin” with Trump’s opinion that the Charlottesville violence had contributors from both sides. The NPR Trump-bashers equated Trump’s factual statement about violence from both sides with “siding with the neo-nazis” in Charlottesville.

NPR’s point is that Trump sides with Nazis and Russian thugs and is against Americans.

What Trump said in fact about alleged election interference was that whether there was or was not any election interference, it had no effect as Comey and Rosenstein have admitted, and is certainly not as important as two nuclear powers getting along with one another and avoiding tensions that could result in nuclear war. One would think that even an NPR idiot could understand that.

The Trump-bashing on NPR has gone on all day intermixed with an occasional bashing of Russia for killing Syrian civilians in air attacks on the Washington-supported jihadists that are, as instructed by Washington, trying to hold on to a bit of Syria so that Washington and Israel can restart the war. One wonders at the stupidity of those who give money to NPR so that NPR can lie to them all day long. Like George Orwell foresaw, people are more comfortable with Big Brother’s lies than with the truth.

NPR was once an alternative voice, but it was broken by the George W. Bush regime and has become completely corrupt. NPR still pretends to be “listener-supported,” but in fact is now a commercial station just like every commercial station. NPR tries to disguise this fact by using “with support from” to introduce the paid advertisements from the corporations.

“With support from” is how NPR traditionally acknowledged its philanthropic donors. The real question is: how does NPR hold on to its 501c3 tax-exempt status when it sells commercial advertising? No need for NPR to worry. As long as the presstitute entity serves the ruling elite at the expense of truth, it will retain its illegal tax-exempt status.

It is obvious that the indictments of the 12 Russian intelligence officers immediately prior to the Trump/Putin meeting was intended to harm the meeting and to give the presstitutes more opportunities for more dishonest shots at President Trump. In my day, journalists would have been smart enough and would have had enough integrity to understand that. But Western presstitutes have neither intelligence nor integrity.

How much proof do you want? Here is presstitute Michelle Goldberg writing in the New York Times that “Trump shows the world he’s Putin’s lackey.” The presstitute says she is “staggered by the American president’s slavish and toadying performance.” Apparently Goldberg thinks Trump should have beaten up Putin.

The Washington Post, formerly a newspaper, now a sick joke, alleged that “Trump just colluded with Russia. Openly.”

It is not only the presstitutes. It is the so-called experts, such as Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations, a self-important group, financed by the military/security complex, that presides over American foreign policy. Haass, sticking to the official military/security line, declared erroneously: “International order for 4 centuries has been based on non-interference in the internal affairs of others and respect for sovereignty. Russia has violated this norm by seizing Crimea and by interfering in the 2016 US election. We must deal with Putin’s Russia as the rogue state it is.”

What is Haass talking about? What respect for sovereignty does Washington have? Surely Haass is familiar with the ruling neoconservative doctrine of US world hegemony. Surely Haass knows that the orchestrated troubles with Iraq, Libya, Syria, North Korea, Russia, and China are due to Washington’s resentment of their sovereignty. What is Washington’s unilateralism about if Washington respects the sovereignty of countries? Why does Washington want a unipolar world if Washington respects the sovereignty of other countries? It is precisely Russia’s insistence on a multi-polar world that has Russia in the propaganda crosshairs. If Washington respects sovereignty, why does Washington overthrow countries that have it? When Washington accuses Russia of being a threat to world order, Washington means that Russia is a threat to Washington’s world order. Is Haass demonstrating his idiocy or his corruption?

As the American media has conclusively proven that it has no independence but is a mouthpiece for Democrats and corporate interests, it should be nationalized. The American media is so compromised that nationalization would be an improvement.

The armaments industry should also be nationalized. Not only is it a power greater than the elected government, it also is vastly inefficient. The Russian armaments industry with a tiny fraction of the US military budget produces far superior weapons. As President Eisenhower, a Five-Star General, said, the military-industrial complex is a threat to American democracy. Why are the presstitute scum so worried about non-existent Russian interference when the military/security complex is so powerful that it can actually substitute itself for the elected government?

There was a time when the Republican Party represented the interests of business, and the Democratic Party represented the interests of the working class. That kept America in balance. Today there is no balance. Since the Clinton regime, the rich one percent has been getting vastly richer, and the 99 percent has been getting poorer. The middle class is in serious decline.

The Democrats have abandoned the working class, which Democrats now dismiss as “Trump deplorables,” and support instead the divisiveness and hatreds of Identity Politics. At a time when the American people need unity to stand up to warmongering and greed, there is no unity. Races and genders are taught to hate one another. It is everywhere you look.

Compared to the America I was born into, the America of today is fragile and weak. The only effort at unity is to create unity that Russia is the enemy. It is just like George Orwell’s 1984. In other aspects the current American dystopia is worse than the one Orwell described.

Try to find an American public or private institution that is worthy of respect, that is honorable, that respects truth, that is compassionate and strives for justice. What you find in place of compassion and demand for justice are laws that punish if you criticize the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians or leak information showing the felonies committed by the US government. With all of their institutions corrupted, the American people become corrupted as well. Corruption is what the young are born into. They know no different. What future is that for America?

How can Russia, China, Iran, North Korea reach a compromise with a government that does not know the meaning of the word, a government that requires submission and when submission is not given destruction follows as Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen learned.

Who would be so foolish as to trust an agreement with Washington?

Instead of pursuing an agreement with Trump, who is being set up for removal, Putin should be preparing Russia for war.

War is definitely coming.

America Overrules Trump: No Peace With Russia

The governments of Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea, if their countries are to survive, must give up their deluded hopes of reaching agreements with the United States. No such possibility exists on terms that the countries can accept.

American foreign policy rests on threat and force. It is guided by the neoconservative doctrine of US hegemony, a doctrine that is inconsistent with accepting the sovereignty of other countries. The only way that Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea can reach an agreement with Washington is to become vassals like the UK, all of Europe, Canada, Japan, and Australia.

The Russians—especially the naive Atlanticist Integrationists—should take note of the extreme hostility, indeed, to the point of insanity, directed at the Helsinki meeting across the entirety of the American political, media, and intellectual scene. Putin is incorrect that US-Russian relations are being held hostage to an internal US political struggle between the two parties. The Republicans are just as insane and just as hostile to President Trump’s effort to improve American-Russian relations as the Democrats, as Donald Jeffries reminds us. https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/07/donald-jeffries/the-trump-putin-conference/

The American rightwing is just as opposed as the leftwing. Only a few experts, such as Stephen Cohen and Amb. Jack Matlock, President Reagan’s ambassader to the Soviet Union, have spoken out in support of Trump’s attempt to reduce the dangerous tensions between the nuclear powers. Only a few pundits have explained the actual facts and the stakes.

There is no support for Trump’s agenda of peace with Russia in the US foreign policy arena. The president of the Council on Foreign Relations, Richard Haass, spoke for them all when he declared that “We must deal with Putin’s Russia as the rogue state it is.”

Russia is a “ rogue state” simply because Russia does not accept Washington’s overlordship. Not for any other reason.

There is no support even in Trump’s own government for normalizing relations with Russia unless the neoconservative definition of normal relations is used. By normal relations neoconservatives mean a vassal state relationship with Washington. That, and only that, is “normal.” Russia can have normal relations with America only on the basis of this definition of normal. Sooner or later Putin and Lavrov will have to acknowledge this fact.

A lie repeated over and over becomes a fact. That is what has happened to Russiagate. Despite the total absence of any evidence, it is now a fact in America that Putin himself put Trump in the Oval Office. That Trump met with Putin at Helsinki is considered proof that Trump is Putin’s lacky, as the New York Times and many others now assert as self-evident. That Trump stood next to “the murderous thug Putin” and accepted Putin’s word that Russia did not interfere in the election of the US president is regarded as double proof that Trump is in Putin’s pocket and that the Russiagate story is true.

We can see now why neoconservative John Bolton arranged the Helsinki meeting. It set Trump up for political execution by the media and Congress, both controlled by the military/security complex. In the United States there is zero independence, with the exception of Tucker Carlson, in the print and TV media, and zero independence in Congress. These are controlled institutions, and Tucker will not be tolerated much longer.

The lie of Russian interference is now so firmly established that even the Open Letter published in The Nation and signed by luminaries such as Daniel Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, and Gloria Steinem states: “We must reach common ground to safeguard common interests—taking steps to protect the nation’s elections and to prevent war between the world’s two nuclear superpowers.” Even the most lucid Americans have to accept Russiagate as a fact and regard protecting our elections as important as preventing nuclear war.

There is no meaningful support in the Republican or Democratic party for Trump’s agenda of normalizing US/Russian relations. The combination of a lie made into truth and the power of political campaign combinations from the military/security complex suffice to stifle any support for normalizing relations with Russia. Any US Senator or Representative who supports Trump’s effort to remove Russia from the enemy category will find themselves confronted in their re-election with well-financed opponents declaring them to be traitors who supported Trump’s sell-out of America, while their own campaign contributions dry up.

The American people who are not on the military/security payroll or otherwise dependent on this powerful lobby support peace and elected Trump for that reason, only to discover that a president who stands for peace with Russia is branded a traitor.

It has happened many times before. For example, in his history, The First World War, A. J. P. Taylor explained that all efforts to stop the disastrous war that destroyed Europe were blocked by smearing “as a defeatist, a pacifist, probably a traitor, every advocate of peace, or even of moderation.” As Taylor writes, the “top hats” wanted the money, and the “cloth hats” paid for it with their lives.

What we are experiencing is that democracy is weak and dysfunctional when confronted with powerful lobbies capable of controlling explanations. In America the control over explanations is so complete that the vast majority live in The Matrix.

The Russian media has ignored the American outpouring of hatred and insult against Trump for “selling out America” and has portrayed the Helsinki meeting positively as having established a road to better relations. This Russian view ignores that Trump has no support in the US government or in the media to help him to build this road. The Russian media desperately needs to become familiar with the American response to Trump’s Helsinki meeting with Putin. I have collected together a number of these responses in my recent columns, and the link in this column to Donald Jeffries provides a good sample of the Republicans’ rejection of Trump’s effort to repair the US-Russian relationship.

Just as the World War I British, French, German, and Russian governments could not end the slaughter because they had promised victory and would be discredited, once the Russian government encourages the Russian people that better relations with America are in the making, the Russian government will be locked into delivering the better relations, and this will require the Russian government to give up more than it gains. Russian sovereignty will be part of the price for the agreement.

If the Russians, desperate for Western acceptance, hold on to their delusion that Washington’s hegemony is negotiable, it will not only be at their own peril but also at the peril of all of humanity.

Postscript: The rant in the URL below in Salon, which I suspect is a CIA asset, by a non-entity of no merit or achievement is devoid of fact. But it does stand as an accurate representation of the organized, orchestrated assault in the United States on truth and on those individuals committed to truth, such as Jill Stein and Julian Assange. As the goal is to denigrate Trump, it is not possible to believe the portrayal of the unidentified Republican state senator in the Salon account who lost his faith in Trump simply because Trump did not behave provocatively when he met with Putin. Nevertheless, the portrayal, even if fictional, is accurate in the sense that it represents the controlled explanation that is being fed to the American people and the subject peoples of Washington’s empire. https://www.salon.com/2018/07/18/trump-regret-syndrome-is-spreading-among-republicans-after-helsinki-how-far-will-it-go/

The Russian media desperately needs to accurately translate and publish the Salon article in order for the Russian people to comprehend the impossibility of any agreement with the United States that leaves Russia a sovereign nation. The hatred of Russia that is being generated in America is extraordinary. It can only lead to war.

Throughout the Western World truth and facts have lost their authority. The West lives in lies, and this is the West that confronts the world. It is pathetic to watch Lavrov and Putin continue, time and again, to appeal to facts and to truth when these mean nothing in the West.

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Billionaire oligarchs are using their social media platforms to topple governments by spreading misinformation that changes the outcomes of elections. Oligarchs can not be allowed to control our government or any other government.

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Bannon's Exit Leaves Only His Worst Ideas Behind by Robert Borosage

After Steve Bannon departed the White House on August 14, he contacted The Weekly Standard to make a bold proclamation.

“The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over,” the administration’s now-former chief strategist said. “We still have a huge movement, and we will make something of this Trump presidency. But that presidency is over. It’ll be something else.”

Like all propagandists, Bannon has a tendency to exaggerate. But in this case, he does have a point: His departure marks the culmination of Donald Trump’s bait-and-switch presidential campaign.

Trump won, in part, because he portrayed himself as an economic populist who would not seek to police the world. Bannon played a key role in pushing those policies, though they never gained much traction in the Trump White House. His departure now confirms President Trump as an interventionist Wall Street Republican. Worst of all, Trump will clearly retain the toxic racial politics that Bannon 
also championed.

The Party of Davos

The “Party of Davos,” as Bannon calls it, has won the influence battle inside the White House. Trump’s economic team consists primarily of billionaires, former financial-sector honchos, or both: people like Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, director of the National Economic Council Gary Cohn, and others.

Meanwhile, former generals wield nearly unprecedented power in the White House: National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, Defense Secretary James Mattis, and John Kelly, the president’s new chief of staff.

Bannon prided himself as the “keeper of the promises” and tracked Trump’s major campaign pledges on a whiteboard in his office. But it is clear that Bannon wasn’t very successful.

He reportedly pressed Trump to keep his campaign promise to avoid foreign entanglements and focus on the need to rebuild America, but Trump has now recommitted himself to the 16-year-old war in Afghanistan by ordering a troop surge that will begin immediately.

Trump also es­calated the U.S. presence in Syria, redoubled our support of Saudi Arabia’s ugly war against Yemen, has been gearing up for a face-off with Iran, and randomly threatened U.S. military involvement in Venezuela’s internal affairs.

On Trade

On trade, Bannon championed Trump’s campaign posture against the failed trade policies of the past. He insisted, correctly, that our trade deficit with China was a real security threat, and that the issue shouldn’t be dropped in return for Chinese cooperation on North Korea.

But Trump ended up adopting the establishment position and abandoned his charge that China was a currency manipulator. Instead of scrapping NAFTA, Trump has agreed to renegotiate it. His commerce secretary has even suggested that the Trans-Pacific Partnership—which Trump trashed for over a year straight on the campaign trail—might be a template for those negotiations.

Bannon was reportedly skeptical about the bills to repeal the Affordable Care Act that emanated from the Republicans in Congress, arguing that they were “written by the insurance industry.” He wasn’t wrong, but Trump still championed the unpopular legislation, which would have stripped health insurance from millions of people.

On Taxes

On taxes, Bannon voiced support for raising taxes on the rich. The Trump tax plan—such as it is—promises to skew the tax code even more in favor of the very wealthy. And Trump’s budget is simply a blueprint for the kind of austerity that House Speaker Paul Ryan has repeatedly urged: deep cuts in programs for the vulnerable—
everything from student aid to affordable housing—while throwing more money at the Pentagon.

To be clear, Bannon was no liberal. With characteristic bombast, he championed the “deconstruction of the administrative state” and was complicit in Trump’s shocking assault on federal regulatory agencies. Nor should we mourn his departure.

Mainstreaming Racism

Bannon’s most dangerous contribution to American politics over the past year was to help mainstream the racist ideas of the alt-right and give them an official spokesperson inside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

This, more than anything else, will be Bannon’s legacy. While his positions on the economy and foreign relations were ignored even before he was fired, the racist and nationalist themes in the Bannon playbook are certain to survive his departure. Trump, after all, is the president who saw “many fine people” among the neo-Nazis marching and chanting in Charlottesville.

Inflaming far-right racism will continue to be a key political strategy for the Trump White House. In what turned out to be an exit interview with The American Prospect’s Robert Kuttner, Bannon described the strategy that he and Trump both embrace.

“The longer [the Democrats] talk about identity politics, I got ’em,” he said. “I want them to talk about racism every day. If the left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats.” Having stripped out a lot of the economic nationalism he ran on, Trump is apparently fine carrying on with just the latter.

The Worst-Case Scenario

This is, in many ways, the worst-case scenario. The Party of Davos has won on foreign and economic policy. The right-wing Republican Congress will dominate domestic and budget policy. Trump will continue to waste lives and resources in endless wars without victory across the greater Middle East. He will continue to rack up massive trade deficits, undermining wages and security at home. And he’ll likely continue to go full Bannon on issues of race and immigration.

With any luck, as New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has noted, the malevolence of the administration will continue to be tempered by its incompetence, and Trump’s evident instability will not result in utter calamities.

He will keep training his fire on Muslims and immigrants, and use race-baiting politics to do real damage when it comes to voter-suppression laws and immigration enforcement. All the while, he will preen about corporate plant openings and make the occasional empty gesture toward an economic populism that would help workers, while signing off on policies that 
undermine them.

Bannon, for his part, will return to the Breitbart website from whence he came, and will presumably continue to peddle nativist and racist slurs as news while attacking many administration officials as globalist sellouts. Though Trump did indeed surrender on economic populism, Bannon helped build this horrifying Frankenstein.

Cross-posted from The Nation

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Neo-Nazi publication The Daily Stormer “banned from the internet”

A neo-Nazi website’s publisher says he he’s “effectively been completely banned from the internet” after mocking the victim of a deadly car attack at a white nationalist rally in Virginia.

Andrew Anglin told The Associated Press in an email Wednesday that he is “figuring out the next step” after four domain registrars refused to service his site, The Daily Stormer, which is named after a Nazi propagandist newspaper, and bills itself as “the world’s most goal-oriented Republican website.”

GoDaddy and Google said earlier that the site violated their terms of service after Anglin mocked victim Heather Heyer and lauding her alleged killer, James Alex Fields Jr., as a “player.”

After briefly reappearing under a Russian domain name, the site was again offline Wednesday afternoon.

Anglin also said by email that San Francisco-based Cloudflare Inc., a company that protects websites from denial of service attacks, had dropped him as a customer.

The publication’s YouTube channel is currently offline, and its Twitter account was also suspended, with a statement from Twitter saying, “The Twitter Rules prohibit violent threats, harassment, hateful conduct, and multiple account abuse, and we will take action on accounts violating those policies.”

A Cloudflare spokeswoman did not immediately confirm that account.

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After Trump’s Remarks, White Nationalists Say He’s Telling Truth About Charlottesville

Republicans, Democrats and business market leaders have called Chief executive Donald Trump's reaction to previous weekend's deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, limited. But white nationalists involved with the rally have sung a new melody, praising the chief executive for what they see as his real truth telling about the occurrence. Trump "views the simple truth is just how I view it," said Eli Mosley, a 25-year-old who advocates for "white privileges" and helped plan the "Unite the proper" rally. "He's seen through this absurd narrative that we gone there to combat." Trump on Wednesday condemned "neo-Nazis and white nationalists," but also recommended that anti- Nazi counter-protesters - who the president termed the "alt-left" - instigated the weekend's violence. "How about the alt-left that came up charging at the, as you say, the alt right," Trump said at Trump Tower in NY. "You'd, you'd a group using one aspect that was bad. And you'd a group on the other hand that was also very violent. And no one wants to state that, but I'll say it right now," Trump added. There have been "very fine people on both edges," Trump said. "It sounds if you ask me like [Trump] has been an objective observer," said Christopher Cantwell, a white nationalist from New Hampshire who went to Saturday's rally. "Someone who is not such as a communist little bit of filth would check out what took place there and say the leftists were the initiators of the pressure." The chaos at Saturday's rally managed to get hard to see who was accountable for each work of violence. But a few fact is clear: At least 35 people were damaged -- and one was wiped out. (Two more people, both point out troopers working the rally, were also wiped out when their helicopter crashed.) James Alex Areas, the person who allegedly drove his car into several counter-protesters, killing the main one and injuring 19 more, was reportedly captivated by Nazis and stood with Vanguard America, a white supremacist group. (The group disavowed any reference to Fields.) Even before Wednesday, Democrats plus some Republicans got criticized Trump's first response to the weekend's situations for blaming "many factors" for the assault. Sen. Cory Gardner (R- Colo.) tweeted: "Mr. Chief executive - we should call evil by its name. We were holding white supremacists which was home terrorism." The president used up on Mon with a second, more thorough public denunciation of "the KKK, Neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate organizations that are repugnant to everything we maintain dear as Americans." But on Thursday day, in a warmed back and forth with reporters, Trump shifted his build yet again, time for the "both edges" rhetoric of his initial declaration. "White supremacy, bigotry & racism have zero place inside our society & no person - especially POTUS - should ever before tolerate it," Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) tweeted following the remarks. "We should be clear. White supremacy is repulsive. This bigotry is counter to all or any this country means. There may be no moral ambiguity," tweeted House Loudspeaker Paul Ryan. Furthermore to negative reactions from lawmakers, several associates of the White House creation council also resigned in protest this week. But prominent users of the so-called "alt- right," a rebranding of white nationalism, jumped to Trump's security. Tim Gionet, who telephone calls himself "Cooked Alaska," and went to the rally, thanked Trump in a single tweet, adding: "President Trump is right!" Richard Spencer, a dominant white nationalist head, said he didn't take Trump's more guarded assertion condemning hate groups critically. It's more "Kumbaya nonsense," he advised reporters on Mon, adding that this sounded "hollow and vapid." After Trump's latest remarks on Wednesday, however, Spencer tweeted,"I'm pleased with [Trump] for speaking the truth." White nationalists that spoke to HuffPost don't declare that Trump helps their views. When asked about the president's denunciation of white supremacist categories, Cantwell said he found it genuine, and also said the mass media is looking to conflate the views of the leader and white nationalists. "I know just what you're endeavoring to do, is tying Donald Trump if you ask me, which explains why you're a little bit of garbage, right, because you understand it's not appropriate, he went of his way to denounce each one of these different categories or whatever," Cantwell said. But "we've overlap, right, you want to save our country," Cantwell added, getting in touch with it a "poor proper decision on his [Trump's] part to denounce white supremacists. I don't believe there's any advantage to it because definitely all the propagandists on the tv set are saying that he didn't get it done fast enough." But critics of Trump's a reaction to the assault in Charlottesville, and his affirmation on Tuesday, were appalled. "If the problem weren't so serious, we're able to overlook his action, his ducking and weaving, his petulant action," Richard Cohen, the chief executive of the Southern Poverty Regulation Center, said in a assertion Tuesday. "But at this time, it's simply bizarre and disheartening." "We can't admit excuses for white supremacy & acts of local terrorism. We should condemn. Period," tweeted Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.).

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Expert: March 20, 2017: Listening today to the broadcast of testimony by FBI Director Comey and National Security Agency Director Admiral Michael Rogers before the House Intelligence Committee (an oxymoron) made it clear that the Democrats, Comey, and Rogers intend conflict with Russia. The Republicans, for the most part, were interested to know how security leaks targeted at Trump Republicans came from meetings at which only the CIA Director, NSA Director, and FBI director were present. Of course, they did not get an answer, which shows how powerless congressional oversight committees are. Comey repeatedly said that he could not tell the committee anything, because it would confirm that a press leak was true. But, he said, speaking generally and of no specific leak, most leaks come from “someone who heard something” and passes it on to the media, which also explains the inaccuracy of some leaks. In other words, don’t blame us. The Democrats were out in force to demonize Russia, Putin, and everyone, especially Trump Republicans, who speaks to a Russian even if the person is still a private citizen, as was Gen. Flynn when he recommended to the Russian ambassador that Russia not respond in kind to President Obama’s expulsion of Russian diplomats over Christmas. The Democrats bestowed yet another demonic title on Putin. In addition to being “the new Hitler,” a “thug,” and a “Mafia don,” today Putin became a “tarantula in the center of the spy web.” The Democrats’ position was that Flynn, by discouraging a Russian tit for tat, had interfered with the Obama regime’s policy of worsening relations between the US and Russia. Some Democrats saw this as treason. Others saw it as proof that Flynn and Trump are in Putin’s pocket, and still others see it as even worse. The Democrats were also very concerned about lobbyists, if they be Republican, working for Russian interests, including Tillerson, the Secretary of State. The fact that every country employs lobbyists and that the lobbyists don’t always register as foreign agents, such as Israel’s lobbyists, or if news reports at the time were correct, neocon Richard Perle who represented Turkey in Washington. Democrats were also after Gen. Flynn for saying that he had not received money from the Russian government. Flynn received a fee for attending the 10th Anniversary celebration of RT in Moscow. Is RT, a news organization, the Russian government? Its budget is supported by the Russian government, but how does this differ from the US government’s support of the budgets of National Public Radio, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Voice of America? Does this mean that everyone who gives an interview to NPR, Radio Liberty, and VOA is an American agent in the pocket of the US president? If you attend a function of one of these organizations, does it make you an “American agent/dupe”? Will there be a list of these people? What the Democrats tried to do today was to criminalize everyone who works for better relations between the US and Russia. To be for peace between the nuclear powers is to be a Russian agent and to be put on a list. The Democrats insisted that Russia was an enemy out to get us, and the Democrats had no difficulty getting Comey and Rogers, both Obama appointees, to agree. Comey and Rogers said that Russia was the main threat to the US, was working against our interests, and intends to harm us. Harming us includes opposing US hegemony and unilateralism. In other words, if the Russian government acts in the interests of Russia, the Russian government is harming the US. From the testimony it clearly emerged that any kind of opposition to anything Washington does is against American interests. Both Comey and Rogers declared, falsely, that Russia had invaded Ukraine and seized Crimea by force. If Comey and Rogers are so poorly informed that they believe this, they are unfit for office. Crimea has been a part of Russia for 300 years. The population is almost entirely Russian. When the Soviet Union collapsed and Washington broke it apart, the Ukraine became independent for the first time in history. Crimea, which had been transferred by Khrushchev in 1954 from the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, was included in the transfer on the condition that Russia had a long term lease on the naval base in Crimea. When Washington’s coup overthrew the democratically elected government in Ukraine, the Russian populations in Crimea, and in the new republics of Luhansk and Donetsk, were attacked and threatened by the neo-nazi elements in eastern Ukraine that had fought for Hitler against the Soviet Union. The populations of these areas voted overwhelmingly to reunite with Russia, from whence they had come. The votes were fair and open. As Crimea is the Russian Navy’s Black Sea base, Crimea was already occupied by Russian forces. For Comey and Rogers to call this an “invasion” displays either ignorance or a lack of integrity. Indeed, the lack of integrity of the FBI, NSA, CIA, and Obama regime is evidenced by the sustained campaign of lies, distortions, and targeted “news leaks,” that is, stories planted on the presstitutes by the intelligence services about Russian interference in the presidential election. It is all about protecting the massive military/security budget and powers. Trump threatened both the budget and the power when he declared that his policy would be to normalize relations with Russia. If relations are normalized, the carefully orchestrated “Russian threat” disappears. The intelligence services are not willing for this to happen. The US intelligence services prefer the risk of nuclear Armageddon to a budget cut. The Democrats are probably not sufficiently intelligent to understand that they are fanning the flames of war between nuclear powers. The Democrats are desperate to find someone on whom to pin their loss of the election. Moreover, by pinning it on a conspiracy between Trump and Putin, they hope to remove Trump from office. Although Pence, who is a Russophobe, is acceptable to the military/security complex, the Democrats have hopes of clearing out Pence as well, as his election resulted from the alleged conspiracy, and reinstalling themselves in the White House. Americans need to understand that the political competition between the Democrats and Republicans is over which party gets to collect the money for being the whore for the One Percent. Traditionally, the party in the White House gets most of the money, so that is where both parties want to be. Michael Morell, a supporter of Hillary Clinton and President Obama’s last CIA director in an acting capacity, who was slated to become CIA director under Hillary, said, “On the question of the Trump campaign conspiring with the Russians, there is smoke, but there is no fire, at all. There’s no little campfire, there’s no little candle, there’s no spark. And there’s a lot of people looking for it.” Morell does believe that it was the Russians who hacked Hillary’s incriminating emails but not in collusion with Trump, although the evidence is that they were a leak from inside the Democratic National Committee by disaffected supporters of Bernie Sanders. Obama’s Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said on Meet the Press on March 5 that he had seen no evidence of a Putin-Trump conspiracy when he left office on January 20. Listening to Comey and Rogers today, if they are not working against President Trump, what would classify as working against Trump? Trump supporters ask why Trump doesn’t fire these two men who are working to block a reduction in the dangerous tensions between Washington and Russia. Are the Democrats, Comey, Rogers, the CIA and their media whores so stupid that they don’t understand what it means when the President of Russia says, “the Americans have destroyed our trust in them?” Trump doesn’t fire Comey and Rogers, because he cannot fire them. If he fires them, the Democrats and presstitutes will explain the firings as proof that Trump is a Russian agent and is covering up his treason by removing those investigating it. Trump is trying to use Twitter to respond to the orchestrated media assault against him and to achieve some organization among his supporters, the working class that elected him. However, Trump cannot even count on the Republican Party. Most Republicans are also dependent on political contributions from the military/security complex, and Republicans know that the intelligence agencies have all the dirt on them. To fight for Trump is to expose themselves. It is undeniable that the CIA controls the media, both in Europe and in the US. Udo Ulfkotte’s book, Gekauftge Journalisten, exposed the CIA’s hold on European journalists when it was published in Germany in 2014. An English language edition, Journalists for Hire: How the CIA Buys the News, is due out in May. In the meantime Joel Whitney’s book, Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World’s Best Writers, suffices to establish that America’s most respected journalists drank the CIA’s Kool-Aid “and thought they were saving freedom” by serving as propagandists. People in the West need to understand that if the news they receive bears on the interests of the US military/security complex, the news is scripted by the CIA. The CIA serves its interests, not the interests of the American people or the interests of peace. http://clubof.info/