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It took nearly two months for my last post on this channel to get a single like. Maintaining small channels with fewer following than my personal channel seems pointless. The next goal before I restart posting here will be to exceed ten thousand following via invites. That's going to take a while. Until then, this channel is in hibernation mode ...
Taking a personal day away from Facebook ... be back soon.
We need to migrate our nation away from polluting fossil fuels towards a Green energy future before the accelerating effects of global warming doom our civilization ~ such will require a Green New Deal and it will be on us, the protest movements of this generation, to see that Greener future realized ...
Unless we protect our water, there is no economy. There are no jobs. There is no life. The choice is very simple — we must protect the water that supports the life of people and the life of our planet.
Solidarity is the key to victory for any civil rights movement ...
It's not easy standing up against a government that doesn't respect your rights. Just ask Native Americans.
The Obama administration engaged in more whistleblower prosecutions than all previous presidencies combined, and it seems that Trump wants to build on that legacy ~ not in a good way ... "They're in for a rude awakening if they believe they can just order these experts to ignore the reality, all of the data, and just claim there is no such thing as climate science or global warming," says Jason Zuckerman, a former legal adviser to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, who worked on the Obama administration's Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee. https://www.propublica.org/special/sealing-loose-lips-charting-obamas-crackdown-on-national-security-leaks
We're talking about overturning the plutocracy, restoring democratic values by making bribery illegal again ... `Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes said he didn't "think that's a serious thing," adding that "we should all worry" if someone were seeking to change the First Amendment. He suggested that came from the Democratic Party, which "had a campaign plank to change the First Amendment, and they were doing it in the guise of campaign finance reform." / Democrats, including Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, vowed to engage in campaign finance reform following the election — a cause that has been bolstered in recent years by the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. The 2010 ruling deemed that corporations and labor unions were people who could flex First Amendment rights in contributing to campaigns, and it led to the advent of so-called super PACs.` http://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bewkes-time-warner-first-amendment-democrats-trump-2016-12
Time Warner CEO: I Have 'Free Speech' Rights To Buy Politicians
If Trump sets aside the free trade deals and establishes a 10% import/export protectionist tariff, then uses that tax revenue to directly subsidize American manufacturing, it will be a boon bigger than anything the democrats have offered in 20 years ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jbepOc4om4
Two Time Obama Voters Explain Why They Voted Trump
Being part of the antiwar left, I'm glad Kyle brought up this point ... https://i.imgflip.com/1f4i3e.jpg
Obama Brags About Doing Endless War To Thunderous Applause
The science is clear, please let Trump see reason.
I do hope you sign and share this worthy petition:
https://www.change.org/p/tell-trump-to-actonclimate
This is just more innuendo that Russia was responsible for the election outcome? I've yet to see any real proof of that beyond the veil of "confidence" and government secrecy ... I'll be waiting, meantime ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D92Gc7f6Lk
`It will be easy to prove to all but the most purblind partisans that Russia had the intent of electing Trump. But it will be much more difficult to prove that Russia did in fact elect Trump. That may never be provable. Unless evidence emerges that Russia specifically altered vote counts, Republicans will always be able to say it was something else and turn it back on Hillary.` http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/10/world-war-iii-democrats-and-america-vs-trump-and-russia.html
I don't usually like to share from this channel due to a negativity bias, but this one's good ... "Democrats – still eager to make sense of their election loss and to find causes for it other than themselves – immediately declared these anonymous claims about what the CIA believes to be true, and, with a somewhat sweet, religious-type faith, treated these anonymous assertions as proof of what they wanted to believe all along: that Vladimir Putin was rooting for Donald Trump to win and Hillary Clinton to lose and used nefarious means to ensure that outcome. That Democrats are now venerating unverified, anonymous CIA leaks as sacred is par for the course for them this year, but it’s also a good indication of how confused and lost U.S. political culture has become in the wake of Trump’s victory."
How Hillary Clinton Stole The Nomination:
MSM: "Russia hacked our election."
Americans: "Where is the proof?"
MSM: "Anonymous sources within the government conducted their secret investigation and they swear it's true."
The End (of Real Journalism)
Now that's how you do it ... other nations know how to strike, we need to learn ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjHER9L5Cic
This is what protests looked like in South Korea. Click on them. They shut it down. MILLIONS joined in. Forced the impeachment of their President this week.
Trump deserves protests like this. I refuse to call him President.
He's a scoundrel through and through.
Tanis C: `But I thought that these pipelines DON'T BREAK?? Du*****es! What do the naysayers have to say now?`
That's better sarcasm than I'm usually able to manage ... http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/4173960-western-north-dakota-oil-pipeline-shut-down-after-spill
300 leaks, breaks and spills per year ... http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/17/more-300-year-new-analysis-shows-devastating-impact-pipeline-spills
An oil pipeline in North Dakota ruptured, spilling crude oil into a tributary of the Missouri river. Jimmy Dore breaks it down. Get Tickets For Jimmy Dore Li...
Must applaud Bernie Sanders' statement ... https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/12/bernie-sanders-nailed-it-on-identity-politics-and.html
“It goes without saying that as we fight to end all forms of discrimination, as we fight to bring more and more women into the political process, Latinos, African Americans, Native Americans — all of that is enormously important, and count me in as somebody who wants to see that happen. / Right now, we’ve made some progress in getting women into politics — I think we got 20 women in the Senate now. We need 50 women in the Senate. We need more African Americans. / But it’s not good enough to say, “Hey, I’m a Latina, vote for me.” That is not good enough. I have to know whether that Latina is going to stand up with the working class of this country, and is going to take on big money interests. / One of the struggles that we’re going to have right now, we lay on the table of the Democratic Party, is it’s not good enough to me to say, “Okay, well we’ve got X number of African Americans over here, we’ve got Y number of Latinos, we have Z number of women. We are a diverse party, a diverse nation. / But, but here is my point, and this is where there is going to be division within the Democratic Party. It is not good enough for someone to say, “I’m a woman! Vote for me!” No, that’s not good enough. What we need is a woman who has the guts to stand up to Wall Street, to the insurance companies, to the drug companies, to the fossil fuel industry. / In other words, one of the struggles that you’re going to be seeing in the Democratic Party is whether we go beyond identity politics.”
Numerous lefty publications called out Bernie Sanders after misinterpreting a statement he made about identity politics. Katie Halper weighs in on the piece.
I've yet to see an article proving that Russia stole the election for Trump ... all I ever find on the topic is innuendo and state secrecy masquerading as "confidence" ... at least Wikileaks kept things out in the open ...
#WakeUpAmerica #GetReal - enough of the BS about #Russia stealing the election. This is CIA & State Dept propaganda trying to legitimatize their increased hostilities towards Russia.
From Years of Living Dangerously, season 2, episode 4 @ 29:38 ... figure I'll be using this climate change quote meme quite often ...
@ 29:38 `Climate change is especially dangerous because it makes everything else more dangerous. So, it's what the department [of defense] calls in its own strategy documents a threat accelerator. When you have a place where you've got a weak government and a poor economy, and then you add into it a drought, an extreme weather event or a food shortage that's all being affected by climate change, that's when things begin to break down and you see conflict, you see people move, and that's when you have a security challenge.` Sharon Burke, former assistant secretary of defense.
Cattle ranching, drought, deforestation, massive hydroelectric dams and illegal mining threaten the Amazon rain forest, which is losing 2 million acres a yea...
Considering the pattern of his choices for cabinet, this is a real concern ...
Trump’s choices suggest that he intends to move in a sharply conservative direction at many agencies.
One last send-off for an American hero ...
The first American astronaut to orbit Earth, John Glenn passed away yesterday in Ohio. But he leaves an admirable legacy. Want more SciShow in person? We'll ...
@ 2:02 Don't usually see Jimmy Dore so optimistic ... ;-)
Ralph Nader joined Thom Hartmann for a discussion about how elites got the election so wrong. Jimmy Dore breaks it down. Get Tickets For Jimmy Dore Live At F...
Oh great, now it's back to the usual pay to play ...
Longtime watchers of money in politics cannot recall any president in recent history who has filled a Cabinet with so many major donors.
Let's call this the must-watch video of the day ... `By 2025, 1.8 billion people will be living in countries or regions with absolute water scarcity, and two-thirds of the world's population could be living under water-stressed conditions.` http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/scarcity.shtml
An extract from Liberatum’s documentary In this Climate, in which a range of cultural and environmental figures including Noam Chomsky, David Attenborough an...
Have an interesting movie to share with you, from the maker of the real/fake news Youtube channel ... Password: freescreening
Direct link to movie ... https://vimeo.com/181349414
Jesse Bertel – An artist, musician, and stand-up comedian with over 18 years experience in video and film production. He studied Video Production at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. He earned his Bachelors degree in Screenwriting and the Cinema and Television Arts and his Master’s degree in Mas...
That Trump is going to profit from the presidency is out in the open, but that he's going to damage the nation and the planet in the process is what needs to be made known ...
Donald Trump's campaign spent nearly $3 million on his own businesses as the election wrapped up
No, while Hillary was a horrible candidate, fake news did contribute partially to Trump's victory ...
It’s not often that we heap praise on the MSNBC conservative show “Morning Joe,” but we must give credit where credit is due. During a discussion about the recent phenomenon of “fake news,” Scarborough and his panel commented on Clinton’s role in the fake news pandemic, urging the failed candidate t...
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee recently created their own "master list" of fake news outlets ... https://s29.postimg.org/ylylfcsyv/Full_Frontal_w_Samantha_Bee_IDs_fake_news_sites.jpg
I can’t help but notice that the new Washington Post-certified “master list” of “fake news” outlets does not include any of the media…
Whereas the liberal position might be to shut down the coal mines and make sure miners keep their pensions ... as so often the case, I can't understand what republicans are doing ... http://crooksandliars.com/2016/12/budget-resolution-stalls-after-gop-balks
The Republican Party's first victims? Coal miners.
Big money corrupting politics continues to be my topmost concern ... that said, I take it that this was the source of that statistic ... `Out of the 75 landing team members announced by the Trump Transition organization, 70 percent (53 members) have some corporate affiliation. Some are CEOs (Paul Atkins, Willie Gaynor, Tom Leppert, Ray Washburne), some served corporations as lobbying or legal clients (Joel Leftwich, Doug Domenech, Robert Mackichan, Ronald Tenpas), some worked at the Heritage Foundation or other corporate-backed think tanks (Justin Johnson, Jim Carafano, Thomas Pyle, Myron Ebell). See the Appendix below for the full list of landing team members for which corporate affiliation was identified.` https://medium.com/public-citizen/corporate-interests-infest-trump-transition-at-federal-agencies-c42d32cb5ec1
Surprise, surprise…
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`American intelligence agencies have concluded with “high confidence” that Russia acted covertly in the latter stages of the presidential campaign to harm Hillary Clinton’s chances and promote Donald J. Trump, according to senior administration officials.` I'm always looking for detailed information about the how and why regarding that "high confidence", but all I ever find is innuendo and government secrecy ~ this article is no exception ... that said, my sole hope regarding these investigations is that it will improve our election integrity to the point that our democratic elections are no longer ranked dead last in the free world ... http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/us/obama-russia-election-hack.html?_r=0
Will Trump shut down the investigation into Russia?
The most immediate effects of climate change are already droughts causing desertification, wildfires, food and water shortages, terrorism, human mass-migrations, resource wars, and an increase in superstorms and floods ... the Syrian refugee crisis is the tip of the icebergs, as these shifts accelerate, our civilization will struggle to cope ... to what few conservatives reading this, denial can only last for so long until reality repeatedly slaps you across the face ...
Sounds about right.
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