Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Truest statement of the week

Condemning Trump is akin to shooting fish in a barrel. Taking on the black district attorney who victimized Keith Davis requires more intestinal fortitude. Baltimore police violence and corruption are endemic and the cops are notoriously crookedas Black Agenda Report has also reported. But prosecutors work hand in had with the occupying police enemy in Baltimore and around the country.
There is more reason to rise up in righteous indignation over the Keith Davis verdict than Trump’s latest rant. Davis’s plight is that of all black people. Trump represents the white people who tell Cummings and company what to do. Despite all protestations to the contrary they do as they are told and deny minimum wage increases, and provide protection to police, banksters and other malefactors. This week we should not spend much time thinking about Elijah Cummings. It is Keith Davis who should be on our minds.

-- Margaret Kimberley, "Freedom Rider: Trump and Baltimore" (BLACK AGENDA REPORT).








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Truest statement of the week II

Russiagate fanatic Michael Isikoff, co-author of “Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump,” has been producing a series of “Conspiracyland ” podcasts for Yahoo News so as to put an end to any suspicion that Democratic or Clinton operatives murdered Seth Rich, the young Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffer who was shot dead on his way home from work on July 25, 2016, in Washington, D.C. Curious project—Isikoff’s—because the best way to bury inconvenient suspicions, expressions, or even truths is to ignore them, refuse to talk about them, or pretend they don’t exist. Why start a radio drama series, replete with music and special effects, about something you want people to forget?  
Seth Rich had access to the DNC emails. He could have downloaded them to a thumb drive and then given the thumb drive to Wikileaks, or he could have uploaded them to a dropbox, but no one has ever produced any definitive proof that he did. Whether they were downladed or hacked, the emails exposed the DNC conspiracy to steal the nomination from Bernie Sanders. No one, however, has proven that that’s why Clinton lost. “The evidence that WikiLeaks had an impact is circumstantial,” wrote Five Thirty Eight political analyst Harry Enten in December 2016. “Trump, for instance, won among voters who decided who to vote for in October [by] 51 percent to 37 percent, according to national exit polls . That’s Trump’s best time period. He carried voters who decided in the final week, when you might expect Comey’s letter to have had the largest impact, [by] 45 percent to 42 percent. (Although, Trump’s margin among those who decided in the final week was wider in the exit polls in some crucial swing states .) And while Clinton’s lead was dropping in the FiveThirtyEight polls-only forecast before the Comey letter was released, the drop accelerated slightly afterward. Of course, onething didn’t sink Clinton. The evidence suggests WikiLeaks is among the factors that might have contributed to her loss, but we really can’t say much more than that.”
Former NSA Technical Director William Binney conducted several data transmission experiments and thereby proved that the email could not have been sent across the Atlantic at the speed indicated by the time stamps. However, another security state pro suggested that the DNC might have had an unusually speedy Internet connection. However, if that were true, wouldn’t the DNC have long since produced their Internet service bills to prove it?
In any case, it would seem more important that the DNC interfered in the 2016 presidential election. They stole the nomination and most likely the presidency from Bernie Sanders, but that was of course buried in liberal hysterics over Trump’s election. The Democratic National Press (DNP) had to find someone to blame besides the Democratsand their own thieving national committee, so we were subjected to the two-year, $30-million Russiagate investigation that finally ended with the grudging conclusion that there’s no evidence to indict Trump.

-- Ann Garrison, "Russiagate Fanatic Michael Isikoff’s Curious Project" (BLACK AGENDA REPORT).





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A note to our readers

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Tuesday night.


Let's thank all who participated this edition which includes Dallas and the following:




The Third Estate Sunday Review's Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess and Ava,
Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude,
Betty of Thomas Friedman Is a Great Man,
C.I. of The Common Ills and The Third Estate Sunday Review,
Kat of Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills),
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Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz),
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Trina of Trina's Kitchen, Marcia of SICKOFITRDLZ,
Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends,
Isaiah of The World Today Just Nuts,
and Ann of Ann's Mega Dub.


And what did we come up with?



Thank you to everyone.  We were watching the debate as we finished up.  Never again.  But for debate coverage, check out these community posts:

  • SICKOFITRADLZ
    The debate
    34 minutes ago
  • Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills)
    The closing remarks of and on the debate
    50 minutes ago
  • Mikey Likes It!
    Elizabeth and Bernie
    2 hours ago
  • Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude
    are they on drugs?
    2 hours ago
  • Ruth's Report
    Hickenlooper is Nixon reincarnated
    2 hours ago

  • Ann's Mega Dub
    I think the Dems are going to re-elect Trump
    2 hours ago

  • Thomas Friedman is a Great Man
    Is Bullock trying to Mansplain to Elizabeth Warren?
    2 hours ago
  • Trina's Kitchen
    If you're not for Medicare For All drop out of the race
    2 hours ago
  • Like Maria Said Paz
    Lipless Delaney is the village idiot
    2 hours ago 
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    • See you next week.


    Peace,


    -- Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava and C.I.










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    Editorial: Where the attention goes?

    How did DEMOCRACY NOW! miss the reports of Israel bombing Iraq?



    1.  3 hours ago
      Report: Israel Attacks Iranian Military Targets in Iraq


    2.  3 hours ago
      Israel said to hit Iranian sites in Iraq, expanding strikes on missile shipments -


    3.  3 hours ago
      Israel said to hit Iranian sites in Iraq, expanding strikes on missile shipments via


    4.  4 hours ago
      Israel said to hit Iranian sites in Iraq, expanding strikes on missile shipments via
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    5.  4 hours ago
      Israel launched two F-35 attacks on Iranian targets in Iraq in July - report





    Did it happen?

    It may not have.  It could be whispers with no reality behind them.  But it's interesting how little attention this is receiving.

    What is said to have taken place would be an act of war.

    Are we all turning out eyes away because it's Israel?

    Iraq is supposed to be a sovereign country.


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