Dear Judge Brett Kavanaugh
By Deuteronomy 19:16-19
Saturday, September 29, 2018
Dear Judge Brett Kavanaugh:
Sincerely,
Saturday, September 29, 2018
Friday, September 28, 2018
Dear Fellow Fake Victims
Dear Fellow Fake Victims
By Christine Blasey Ford
Friday, September 28, 2018
Dear Fellow Fake Victims:
Sincerely,
By Christine Blasey Ford
Friday, September 28, 2018
Dear Fellow Fake Victims:
Sincerely,
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Monday, September 24, 2018
Prop Agenda
Prop Agenda
By Connect Hook
September 24, 2018
A torrent gushes from the serpent’s mouth
Wave upon breaking wave
It’s ALL fake news
Swiftly eroding what is left to lose
Democracy’s waterlogged corpse drifts south
A bloated mess all waters to infuse
With putrefaction thus to breed disease
Uncivil war invades our fantasies
The polarized extremes now pay their dues
Propping things up
It’s what they do the best
Business as usual
Pawns all occupied
In scaffolding facades upon the West
And sculpting the friezes of fratricide
But underground
The currents cave away
Media will fail
God brings a brighter day
By Connect Hook
September 24, 2018
A torrent gushes from the serpent’s mouth
Wave upon breaking wave
It’s ALL fake news
Swiftly eroding what is left to lose
Democracy’s waterlogged corpse drifts south
A bloated mess all waters to infuse
With putrefaction thus to breed disease
Uncivil war invades our fantasies
The polarized extremes now pay their dues
Propping things up
It’s what they do the best
Business as usual
Pawns all occupied
In scaffolding facades upon the West
And sculpting the friezes of fratricide
But underground
The currents cave away
Media will fail
God brings a brighter day
Friday, September 21, 2018
Trump: ‘Fake Media Still Crying About Election’
Trump: ‘Fake Media Still Crying About Election’
“They don’t know what the hell happened, but it happened.”
By Steve Watson
Prison Planet.com
September 21, 2018
President Trump slammed the media at a rally Thursday, taunting
his detractors by saying, “they are still crying” about his election
victory.
“You remember when we had that great, great election, almost
two years ago, can you believe?” he asked the crowd in Las Vegas,
noting there were “tears from the fake news media when it was
obvious that we were going to win.”
“You know what? They are still crying. Look at them. They are still
crying” Trump said, pointing directly at the cameras soundtracked
by a chorus of booing directed at the pool of reporters.
“They are still crying and let them cry. They don’t know what
the hell happened, but it happened.” the President added.
Trump continued, saying that reporters are, “torn” because they
are now financially better off due to the ratings they get from
covering his presidency.
Trump pondered that the media might endorse him for re-election
due to the record profits they are enjoying.
“If they don’t, those broadcasting companies, the New York Times,
all of those, they are going bankrupt so fast,” he said.
“I can’t tell you how dishonest and corrupt so much of the media is.
I can’t even explain it, impossible to explain. Nobody would believe
it,” Trump continued.
While saying that some reporters are, “fine people” and,
“professional” the president declared that most are ‘fake’.
“These are people that will take a great story and make it as bad
as possible” he said adding, “They will take an OK story and make
it horrible.”
Elsewhere during the rally, the president endorsed Supreme Court
nominee Brett Kavanaugh in the face of the sexual misconduct
allegations being pushed by the media.
“Brett Kavanaugh, and I’m not saying anything about anybody else,
Brett Kavanaugh is one of the finest human beings you will ever
have the privilege of knowing or meeting” Trump said.
“We’ll let it play out, and I think everything is going to be just fine.
This is a high quality person” Trump added.
Speaking to Fox News anchor Sean Hannity prior to the rally, Trump
urged the Senate to stop delaying Kavanaugh’s confirmation, noting
“I think is a sad situation, he’s an outstanding person. And frankly,
Sean, to see what is going on is just very, very sad. You say, why
didn’t somebody call the FBI 36 years ago?”
“To take a man like this and besmirch — now with that being said,
let her have her say and let’s see how it all works out. But I don’t
think you can delay it any longer, they’ve delayed a week already.”
Trump continued.
He added, “I have been accommodating. I say let her say what she
has to say and let’s see how it all comes out. But they’ve delayed
it a week and they have to get on with it.”
https://www.prisonplanet.com/trump-fake-media-still-crying-
about-election.html
“They don’t know what the hell happened, but it happened.”
By Steve Watson
Prison Planet.com
September 21, 2018
President Trump slammed the media at a rally Thursday, taunting
his detractors by saying, “they are still crying” about his election
victory.
“You remember when we had that great, great election, almost
two years ago, can you believe?” he asked the crowd in Las Vegas,
noting there were “tears from the fake news media when it was
obvious that we were going to win.”
“You know what? They are still crying. Look at them. They are still
crying” Trump said, pointing directly at the cameras soundtracked
by a chorus of booing directed at the pool of reporters.
“They are still crying and let them cry. They don’t know what
the hell happened, but it happened.” the President added.
Trump continued, saying that reporters are, “torn” because they
are now financially better off due to the ratings they get from
covering his presidency.
Trump pondered that the media might endorse him for re-election
due to the record profits they are enjoying.
“If they don’t, those broadcasting companies, the New York Times,
all of those, they are going bankrupt so fast,” he said.
“I can’t tell you how dishonest and corrupt so much of the media is.
I can’t even explain it, impossible to explain. Nobody would believe
it,” Trump continued.
While saying that some reporters are, “fine people” and,
“professional” the president declared that most are ‘fake’.
“These are people that will take a great story and make it as bad
as possible” he said adding, “They will take an OK story and make
it horrible.”
Elsewhere during the rally, the president endorsed Supreme Court
nominee Brett Kavanaugh in the face of the sexual misconduct
allegations being pushed by the media.
“Brett Kavanaugh, and I’m not saying anything about anybody else,
Brett Kavanaugh is one of the finest human beings you will ever
have the privilege of knowing or meeting” Trump said.
“We’ll let it play out, and I think everything is going to be just fine.
This is a high quality person” Trump added.
Speaking to Fox News anchor Sean Hannity prior to the rally, Trump
urged the Senate to stop delaying Kavanaugh’s confirmation, noting
“I think is a sad situation, he’s an outstanding person. And frankly,
Sean, to see what is going on is just very, very sad. You say, why
didn’t somebody call the FBI 36 years ago?”
“To take a man like this and besmirch — now with that being said,
let her have her say and let’s see how it all works out. But I don’t
think you can delay it any longer, they’ve delayed a week already.”
Trump continued.
He added, “I have been accommodating. I say let her say what she
has to say and let’s see how it all comes out. But they’ve delayed
it a week and they have to get on with it.”
https://www.prisonplanet.com/trump-fake-media-still-crying-
about-election.html
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Where Do We Go From Here?
Where Do We Go From Here?
By Em Sos
OpEdNews.com
September 18, 2018
Where Do We Go From Here?
How Much More Death, Destruction and Plunder will be Meted Out
Before We Reach a More Benevolent Stage of 'Civilization'?
How much anti-democratic - coerced change - must we the people
endure before we get to experience actual positive -- uplifting,
across-the-board progress for the entire society?
It's already 100 years ago today, 18th September 1918 that
Eugene V. Debs gave an impassioned speech before the court
which was about to sentence him to 10 years' incarceration
for democratically and legitimately, as was his right, to
speak out -- attempting to address issues concerning the
usurpation of power - infringement of peoples' democratic
rights over their own governance, by the minority moneyed
classes.
And for this, he was facing sentencing, having been charged
with sedition.
What's it going to take for people to be courageous, and outraged
enough, to rise up, in unison, against this oppression by the all-powerful few?
What will be effective against this tyranny, when already long ago,
we lost what was then still a budding democracy, to the few,
through their manipulative and fraudulent application of the ballot
box processes of democracy, which today, is nothing more than an
ongoing quadrennial circus?
The figure of speech "bread and circuses" certainly doesn't ring
hollow; not even after it was first coined by the Roman poet
Juvenal, almost two thousand years ago.
Things may change, but the more they do, the greater is the
undermining and diminishing of the general quality of living
standards for the majority.
And yet, here we are talking of the passage of a mere one
hundred years!
What has stayed the same through millennia is the fraud of
democratic government.
Personally, I'm not that conversant with the extensive biography
of Eugene Debs, the man of a century ago.
Neither do I have full details of the life of former President Ignacio
Lula da Silva of Brazil, recently imprisoned for 12 years for having
dared to successfully challenge (to full terms in office) the global
neo liberal paradigm.
I do know that during his period in office there was a substantial
uplifting of the historically enfeebled majority populace.
It is unremarkable therefore, to compare the treatment meted
out to Lula da Silva and Debs, who preceded him by 100 years.
What is remarkable, is just how close are the parallels in conduct
and modus operandi of the capitalist plunderers, a full century
apart.
In both of these men's cases their integrity was besmirched simply
because they dared to believe in an alternate economic way
forward.
I have no doubt that Lula da Silva today would fully concur with
Debs' own words one hundred years ago -- "Your Honor, I have
stated in this court that I am opposed to the social system in which
we live; that I believe in a fundamental change--but if possible by
peaceable and orderly means".
Sadly, these ideas are just as unthinkable today, to the all-powerful
moneyed totalitarian class, as they were back then.
So, when progress is measured by any other standard, other than
pure greed, the owning classes in general haven't changed an iota.
Philanthropy and greed are but the opposite sides of the same coin.
Robbing the poor does not a generous soul make.
Generosity is more closely related to altruism.
Free thinking, animate, global subject, as competent as the next
humane being, to dialogue on the matter of our species continued
survival on Mother Earth.
https://www.opednews.com/articles/Where-Do-We-Go-from-Here--by-Em-Sos-Abuse-Of-Power_Money-Buys-Power_Philosophy_Power-Consolidation-180918-535.html
By Em Sos
OpEdNews.com
September 18, 2018
Where Do We Go From Here?
How Much More Death, Destruction and Plunder will be Meted Out
Before We Reach a More Benevolent Stage of 'Civilization'?
How much anti-democratic - coerced change - must we the people
endure before we get to experience actual positive -- uplifting,
across-the-board progress for the entire society?
It's already 100 years ago today, 18th September 1918 that
Eugene V. Debs gave an impassioned speech before the court
which was about to sentence him to 10 years' incarceration
for democratically and legitimately, as was his right, to
speak out -- attempting to address issues concerning the
usurpation of power - infringement of peoples' democratic
rights over their own governance, by the minority moneyed
classes.
And for this, he was facing sentencing, having been charged
with sedition.
What's it going to take for people to be courageous, and outraged
enough, to rise up, in unison, against this oppression by the all-powerful few?
What will be effective against this tyranny, when already long ago,
we lost what was then still a budding democracy, to the few,
through their manipulative and fraudulent application of the ballot
box processes of democracy, which today, is nothing more than an
ongoing quadrennial circus?
The figure of speech "bread and circuses" certainly doesn't ring
hollow; not even after it was first coined by the Roman poet
Juvenal, almost two thousand years ago.
Things may change, but the more they do, the greater is the
undermining and diminishing of the general quality of living
standards for the majority.
And yet, here we are talking of the passage of a mere one
hundred years!
What has stayed the same through millennia is the fraud of
democratic government.
Personally, I'm not that conversant with the extensive biography
of Eugene Debs, the man of a century ago.
Neither do I have full details of the life of former President Ignacio
Lula da Silva of Brazil, recently imprisoned for 12 years for having
dared to successfully challenge (to full terms in office) the global
neo liberal paradigm.
I do know that during his period in office there was a substantial
uplifting of the historically enfeebled majority populace.
It is unremarkable therefore, to compare the treatment meted
out to Lula da Silva and Debs, who preceded him by 100 years.
What is remarkable, is just how close are the parallels in conduct
and modus operandi of the capitalist plunderers, a full century
apart.
In both of these men's cases their integrity was besmirched simply
because they dared to believe in an alternate economic way
forward.
I have no doubt that Lula da Silva today would fully concur with
Debs' own words one hundred years ago -- "Your Honor, I have
stated in this court that I am opposed to the social system in which
we live; that I believe in a fundamental change--but if possible by
peaceable and orderly means".
Sadly, these ideas are just as unthinkable today, to the all-powerful
moneyed totalitarian class, as they were back then.
So, when progress is measured by any other standard, other than
pure greed, the owning classes in general haven't changed an iota.
Philanthropy and greed are but the opposite sides of the same coin.
Robbing the poor does not a generous soul make.
Generosity is more closely related to altruism.
Free thinking, animate, global subject, as competent as the next
humane being, to dialogue on the matter of our species continued
survival on Mother Earth.
https://www.opednews.com/articles/Where-Do-We-Go-from-Here--by-Em-Sos-Abuse-Of-Power_Money-Buys-Power_Philosophy_Power-Consolidation-180918-535.html
Friday, September 14, 2018
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Friday, September 7, 2018
Thursday, September 6, 2018
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Now We Know
Now We Know
'The Resistance' Is The Establishment
By Brendan O'Neil
Lew Rockwell.com
September 5, 2018
So now we know what ‘the resistance’ really is.
It’s the establishment.
It’s the old political order.
It’s that late 20th-century political set, those out-of-touch
managerial elites, who still cannot believe the electorate
rejected them.
That is the take-home message of the bizarre political spectacle
that was the burial of John McCain, where this neocon in life has
been transformed into a resistance leader in death: that while
the anti-Trump movement might doll itself up as rebellious, and
even borrow its name from those who resisted fascism in Europe
in the mid 20th-century, in truth it is primarily about restoring
the apparently cool, expert-driven rule of the old elites over what
is viewed as the chaos of the populist Trump/Brexit era.
The response to McCain’s death has bordered on the surreal.
The strangest aspect has been the self-conscious re-branding
of McCain as a searing rebel.
In death, this key establishment figure in the Republican Party, this
military officer, senator, presidential candidate and enthusiastic
backer of the exercise of US military power overseas, has been re-
imagined as a plucky battler for all that is good against a wicked,
overbearing political machine.
‘John McCain’s funeral was the biggest resistance meeting yet’,
said a headline in the New Yorker, alongside a photo of George
Bush, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, and soldiers from the
US Army, the most powerful military machine on Earth.
This is ‘the resistance’ now: the former holders of extraordinary
power, the invaders of foreign nations, the Washington
establishment.
he New Yorker piece, like so much of the McCain commentary,
praises to the heavens the anti-Trump theme of McCain’s funeral.
McCain famously said Trump couldn’t attend his funeral.
And that in itself was enough to win him the posthumous love of a
liberal commentariat that now views everything through the binary
moral framework of pro-Trump (evil, ill-informed, occasionally
fascistic) and anti-Trump (decent, moral, on a par with the warriors
against Nazism).
Even better, though, was the fact that orators at the funeral,
including McCain’s daughter Meghan and both Bush and Obama,
used the church service to slam Trumpism, without explicitly
mentioning it, and in the process to big-up what came before
Trumpism, which of course was their rule, their politics, their
establishment.
The Washington political and media set might seem bitterly
bipartisan, said the New Yorker writer, but it is also ‘more united’
in one important sense – ‘in its hatred of Donald Trump’.
Hatred of Trump has become the moral glue of the bruised elites
who have been either pushed aside or at least dramatically called
into question by the populist surge taking hold in the West.
And so motored are these people by the shallow moralism of Anti-
Trumpism that they are happy to marshal even a life as complex
and interesting and flawed as McCain’s to the service of hurting
Trump.
A former Al Gore adviser, Carter Eskew, wrote in the Washington
Post: ‘In death, John McCain is about to exact revenge on Donald
Trump.’
Unwittingly revealing the Old Testament streak to the new elite
religion of Hating Trump, Eskew said that as ‘McCain ascends to
heaven on an updraft of praise, Trump’s political hell on Earth
will burn hotter’.
On why it suddenly started to rain when McCain’s coffin was
brought into the Capitol, a CNN journalist said: ‘The angels
were crying.’
What century is this?
The religious allusions, the talk of vengeance against Trump,
the misremembering of McCain’s life so that it becomes a
moral exemplar against the alleged crimes of Trumpism,
exposes the infantile moralism of the so-called resistance.
Albert Burneko, assessing some of the madder McCain commentary,
says there is now a ‘condition’ that he calls ‘Resistance Brain’,
where people display an ‘urge to grab and cling on to anything that
seems, even a little bit, like it might be the thing that Finally
Defeats Donald Trump’.
Even if the thing they’re grabbing on to is actually a bad thing.
Like a seemingly endless FBI investigation into the elected
presidency.
Or George W Bush, whose moral rehabilitation on the back
of Anti-Trumpism has been extraordinary.
Or neoconservatism: this was the scourge of liberal activists a
decade ago, yet now its architects are praised because they
subscribe to the religion of Anti-Trumpism.
Being against Trump washes away all sins.
Some on the left have criticised the moral rehabilitation of McCain.
‘Let’s not forget that he wanted war with Iran and lots of other
places too!’, they cry.
Yet the truth is they paved the way for his posthumous re-branding
as one of the great Americans of the late 20th century.
Since 2016 they have talked about Trump as a uniquely wicked
president, a shocking aberration, the closest thing to Hitler since
the 1930s.
Their anti-Trump hyperbole, driven by their own political
disorientation and increasing sense of distance from the
electorate, has allowed any politician who is not Trump to
mend their reputations and gloss over their own destructive
behaviour.
The transformation of Trump into the bête noire of all right-minded
people, a pillar of unrivalled wickedness that we all have a duty to
protest against in our pussy hats and orange wigs, has been a boon
to the wounded pre-Trump political class keen both to whitewash
its own crimes and to prepare for its return to the position of power
it enjoyed before the electorate was corrupted by ‘post-truth’
hysteria.
‘The resistance’ is the fightback of the establishment against
the people.
As it is in Britain, too, where the rich and influential people fuelling
the war on Brexit – the largest act of democracy in British history –
like to refer to themselves as ‘insurgents’.
It is the height of Orwellianism for these acts of elitist reaction
against democratic dissent to dress themselves up as forms of
resistance.
But it is not surprising.
From the get-go, the so-called resistance has been more a pining
for the old establishment, for Hillary’s rule and for the continued
domination of Britain by the EU, than it has been any kind of daring
strike for a new politics.
Look closely at the funereal elitism of McCain’s burial and you will
see one of the saddest and most striking political developments of
our time.
How self-styled radicals preferred to throw their lot in with the old
establishment under the umbrella of ‘the resistance’ rather than
heed ordinary people who were saying:
‘Let’s tear up the old order.’
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/09/no_author/now-we-know-the-resistance-is-the-establishment
'The Resistance' Is The Establishment
By Brendan O'Neil
Lew Rockwell.com
September 5, 2018
So now we know what ‘the resistance’ really is.
It’s the establishment.
It’s the old political order.
It’s that late 20th-century political set, those out-of-touch
managerial elites, who still cannot believe the electorate
rejected them.
That is the take-home message of the bizarre political spectacle
that was the burial of John McCain, where this neocon in life has
been transformed into a resistance leader in death: that while
the anti-Trump movement might doll itself up as rebellious, and
even borrow its name from those who resisted fascism in Europe
in the mid 20th-century, in truth it is primarily about restoring
the apparently cool, expert-driven rule of the old elites over what
is viewed as the chaos of the populist Trump/Brexit era.
The response to McCain’s death has bordered on the surreal.
The strangest aspect has been the self-conscious re-branding
of McCain as a searing rebel.
In death, this key establishment figure in the Republican Party, this
military officer, senator, presidential candidate and enthusiastic
backer of the exercise of US military power overseas, has been re-
imagined as a plucky battler for all that is good against a wicked,
overbearing political machine.
‘John McCain’s funeral was the biggest resistance meeting yet’,
said a headline in the New Yorker, alongside a photo of George
Bush, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, and soldiers from the
US Army, the most powerful military machine on Earth.
This is ‘the resistance’ now: the former holders of extraordinary
power, the invaders of foreign nations, the Washington
establishment.
he New Yorker piece, like so much of the McCain commentary,
praises to the heavens the anti-Trump theme of McCain’s funeral.
McCain famously said Trump couldn’t attend his funeral.
And that in itself was enough to win him the posthumous love of a
liberal commentariat that now views everything through the binary
moral framework of pro-Trump (evil, ill-informed, occasionally
fascistic) and anti-Trump (decent, moral, on a par with the warriors
against Nazism).
Even better, though, was the fact that orators at the funeral,
including McCain’s daughter Meghan and both Bush and Obama,
used the church service to slam Trumpism, without explicitly
mentioning it, and in the process to big-up what came before
Trumpism, which of course was their rule, their politics, their
establishment.
The Washington political and media set might seem bitterly
bipartisan, said the New Yorker writer, but it is also ‘more united’
in one important sense – ‘in its hatred of Donald Trump’.
Hatred of Trump has become the moral glue of the bruised elites
who have been either pushed aside or at least dramatically called
into question by the populist surge taking hold in the West.
And so motored are these people by the shallow moralism of Anti-
Trumpism that they are happy to marshal even a life as complex
and interesting and flawed as McCain’s to the service of hurting
Trump.
A former Al Gore adviser, Carter Eskew, wrote in the Washington
Post: ‘In death, John McCain is about to exact revenge on Donald
Trump.’
Unwittingly revealing the Old Testament streak to the new elite
religion of Hating Trump, Eskew said that as ‘McCain ascends to
heaven on an updraft of praise, Trump’s political hell on Earth
will burn hotter’.
On why it suddenly started to rain when McCain’s coffin was
brought into the Capitol, a CNN journalist said: ‘The angels
were crying.’
What century is this?
The religious allusions, the talk of vengeance against Trump,
the misremembering of McCain’s life so that it becomes a
moral exemplar against the alleged crimes of Trumpism,
exposes the infantile moralism of the so-called resistance.
Albert Burneko, assessing some of the madder McCain commentary,
says there is now a ‘condition’ that he calls ‘Resistance Brain’,
where people display an ‘urge to grab and cling on to anything that
seems, even a little bit, like it might be the thing that Finally
Defeats Donald Trump’.
Even if the thing they’re grabbing on to is actually a bad thing.
Like a seemingly endless FBI investigation into the elected
presidency.
Or George W Bush, whose moral rehabilitation on the back
of Anti-Trumpism has been extraordinary.
Or neoconservatism: this was the scourge of liberal activists a
decade ago, yet now its architects are praised because they
subscribe to the religion of Anti-Trumpism.
Being against Trump washes away all sins.
Some on the left have criticised the moral rehabilitation of McCain.
‘Let’s not forget that he wanted war with Iran and lots of other
places too!’, they cry.
Yet the truth is they paved the way for his posthumous re-branding
as one of the great Americans of the late 20th century.
Since 2016 they have talked about Trump as a uniquely wicked
president, a shocking aberration, the closest thing to Hitler since
the 1930s.
Their anti-Trump hyperbole, driven by their own political
disorientation and increasing sense of distance from the
electorate, has allowed any politician who is not Trump to
mend their reputations and gloss over their own destructive
behaviour.
The transformation of Trump into the bête noire of all right-minded
people, a pillar of unrivalled wickedness that we all have a duty to
protest against in our pussy hats and orange wigs, has been a boon
to the wounded pre-Trump political class keen both to whitewash
its own crimes and to prepare for its return to the position of power
it enjoyed before the electorate was corrupted by ‘post-truth’
hysteria.
‘The resistance’ is the fightback of the establishment against
the people.
As it is in Britain, too, where the rich and influential people fuelling
the war on Brexit – the largest act of democracy in British history –
like to refer to themselves as ‘insurgents’.
It is the height of Orwellianism for these acts of elitist reaction
against democratic dissent to dress themselves up as forms of
resistance.
But it is not surprising.
From the get-go, the so-called resistance has been more a pining
for the old establishment, for Hillary’s rule and for the continued
domination of Britain by the EU, than it has been any kind of daring
strike for a new politics.
Look closely at the funereal elitism of McCain’s burial and you will
see one of the saddest and most striking political developments of
our time.
How self-styled radicals preferred to throw their lot in with the old
establishment under the umbrella of ‘the resistance’ rather than
heed ordinary people who were saying:
‘Let’s tear up the old order.’
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/09/no_author/now-we-know-the-resistance-is-the-establishment
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