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Monday, March 06, 2017
Why we really don't care about Mike Pence's e-mails
Mike Pence is the Vice President of the United States.
We're not fond of him.
He's in the news of late for his e-mails before becoming Vice President.
We think the issue is valid news topic.
We think that government employees -- elected, appointed or hired -- should use government e-mail accounts. This allows communication to be preserved and provides sunlight.
We object to all efforts to use non-government accounts.
But we don't see it as similar to Hillary Clinton's e-mails as Secretary of State.
Hillary was an employee of the federal government.
Pence was Governor of Indiana. We encourage all citizens of Indiana to weigh in.
Whatever they feel is what they feel.
But this isn't a national matter.
Nor did Pence's e-mails have the implications that Clinton's did.
Just last week, WIKILEAKS noted:
Clinton campaign sent access request to U.S. nuclear weapons secrets over email
PDF: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails//fileid/3361/885 …
Email: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3361 …
Hillary Clinton's e-mails had national and international implications.
The decisions she made were risky ones and they effected the globe.
If Pence was your governor, you have every right to be upset and angry.
But Clinton's actions are on a larger scale and have greater implications.
When is it a hate crime?
By Sunday, the nightly news was chattering away about a shooting -- of a Sikh in Washington state. While this event demands coverage, it's curious how this hate crime talk then dropped back several weeks to cover the Kansas shooting of a Sikh.
Curious because last week was all about what hate crime?
Threats against Jews. Bombings.
But interest there appeared to crater on Friday following the arrest of Juan Thompson.
When they couldn't blame an Anglo White or Donald Trump, the media appeared to lose interest.
Strange because they love naval gazing and Juan Thompson worked for both NPR and THE INTERCEPT.
HEAVY covered it here.
It really seems like that story became less important when an arrest made clear that you couldn't make the story about Donald Trump.
(Juan Thompson is part of the so-called 'resistance' to Donald Trump.)
So are his actions less criminal or less hateful since he dislikes Donald Trump?
Apparently, the corporate media thinks so.
Curious because last week was all about what hate crime?
Threats against Jews. Bombings.
But interest there appeared to crater on Friday following the arrest of Juan Thompson.
When they couldn't blame an Anglo White or Donald Trump, the media appeared to lose interest.
Strange because they love naval gazing and Juan Thompson worked for both NPR and THE INTERCEPT.
HEAVY covered it here.
It really seems like that story became less important when an arrest made clear that you couldn't make the story about Donald Trump.
(Juan Thompson is part of the so-called 'resistance' to Donald Trump.)
So are his actions less criminal or less hateful since he dislikes Donald Trump?
Apparently, the corporate media thinks so.
This edition's playlist
1) Nick Jonas' LAST YEAR WAS COMPLICATED.
2) Janet Jackson's UNBREAKABLE.
3) Pretenders' ALONE.
4) Sam Smith's IN THE LONELY HOUR DROWNING SHADOW EDITION.
8) Tori Amos' UNREPENTANT GERALDINES.
9) Carly Simon's ANOTHER PASSENGER.
10) The Beatles' RUBBER SOUL.
Monday, February 27, 2017
Truest statement of the week
The fact is that the corporate media in this country are our enemies.
Media consolidation has left us with a handful of newspapers and
television networks which are all controlled by international
conglomerates. They hoped they would make neo-liberal heroine Hillary
Clinton the next president but Democratic Party failures and her own
weaknesses put Trump in the White House.
The news has been fake long before Donald Trump used those words. The cozy relationship between Bush and the press gave him cover to invade Iraq and kill 1 million people. The correspondents’ dinners and the private briefings create media haves and have nots, and taint the journalism that comes from this collusion. Obama made the private briefing a standard operating practice and kept Democratic pundits in his thrall, not that he had to work hard to win them over.
-- Margaret Kimberley's "Freedom Rider: The Corporate Media Enemy" (BLACK AGENDA REPORT).
The news has been fake long before Donald Trump used those words. The cozy relationship between Bush and the press gave him cover to invade Iraq and kill 1 million people. The correspondents’ dinners and the private briefings create media haves and have nots, and taint the journalism that comes from this collusion. Obama made the private briefing a standard operating practice and kept Democratic pundits in his thrall, not that he had to work hard to win them over.
-- Margaret Kimberley's "Freedom Rider: The Corporate Media Enemy" (BLACK AGENDA REPORT).
Truest statement of the week II
Most recently, the NAACP and the National Urban League endorsed a
rollback of the Obama administration’s rules on net neutrality. Under a
Democratic chairman, the Federal Communications Commission had
reclassified high-speed Internet as a telecommunications service that
should be regulated, like telephone companies. President Trump’s FCC
chairman, Ajit Pai, a former lawyer for Verizon, proposes to roll back
the classification, giving his former employers the right to favor some
Internet content over others. The NAACP and the Urban League, joined by
two Asian American organizations, this month sent a letter calling for
the issue to be decided by the Republican-controlled Congress, thus
sounding a death knell for Internet neutrality.
In typical liar’s double-speak, the letter calls for “a statue locking in net neutrality no matter how the winds blow.” But the winds in Congress are all blowing from the Right, just as they were 2010, when the NAACP and a long list of other Black and minority organizations opposed net neutrality on the dubious grounds that: “Because of the inherent ‘shaming culture’ of the Internet, we do not need draconian enforcement mechanisms or rigid net neutrality rules to protect consumers.” In 2014, the NAACP and an even longer list of minority organizations rationalized that classifying the Internet as a “common carrier,” like a public utility, would limit “the investment and innovation that have benefitted our constituents” – which is precisely the position taken by Verizon, Comcast and other telecom giants that threaten to go on “capitalist strike” -- withholding investment -- every time regulations are proposed.
-- Glen Ford "Black Misleadership Class: High-Speed Sell-Outs" (BLACK AGENDA REPORT).
In typical liar’s double-speak, the letter calls for “a statue locking in net neutrality no matter how the winds blow.” But the winds in Congress are all blowing from the Right, just as they were 2010, when the NAACP and a long list of other Black and minority organizations opposed net neutrality on the dubious grounds that: “Because of the inherent ‘shaming culture’ of the Internet, we do not need draconian enforcement mechanisms or rigid net neutrality rules to protect consumers.” In 2014, the NAACP and an even longer list of minority organizations rationalized that classifying the Internet as a “common carrier,” like a public utility, would limit “the investment and innovation that have benefitted our constituents” – which is precisely the position taken by Verizon, Comcast and other telecom giants that threaten to go on “capitalist strike” -- withholding investment -- every time regulations are proposed.
-- Glen Ford "Black Misleadership Class: High-Speed Sell-Outs" (BLACK AGENDA REPORT).
A note to our readers
Hey --
An early Monday (in fact, it's only 11:35 on the west coast, where we now live). First, we 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),
Mike of Mikey Likes It!,
Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz),
Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix,
Ruth of Ruth's Report,
Wally of The Daily Jot,
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?
Peace.
-- Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava and C.I.
An early Monday (in fact, it's only 11:35 on the west coast, where we now live). First, we 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),
Mike of Mikey Likes It!,
Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz),
Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix,
Ruth of Ruth's Report,
Wally of The Daily Jot,
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?
Margaret Kimberley earns another truest.
As does Glen Ford.
When will this war be over? Does anyone even try to ask that question anymore?
Ava and C.I. take on an awful actress and an overrated one. Yes, Meryl is overrated.
This should have been major news last week but the western media had other things to do, apparently.
We continue the ongoing series.
The Academy Awards . . .
And we fulfill Tamara's request by doing another TESR Kitchen installment.
What we listened to while writing.
An Academy Award repost.
A SOCIALIST WORKER repost.
A press release from Senator Baldwin.
And one from NESRI.
And another Socialist Worker repost.
Peace.
-- Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava and C.I.
Editorial: Never-ending
Only the never-ending Iraq War could have the never-ending Mosul Slog.
The operation to 'liberate' Mosul began 132 days ago and still continues.
In the rush to sell the ongoing war, many western outlets are trying to reset the clock on The Mosul Slog -- CNN, for example, tried to call it 48 hours old last week.
They lied to start the Iraq War, they lie to continue it.
President Donald Trump's not off the mark when he notes the press is the enemy of the American people.
They are not protecting the people.
They have not protected the people in some time.
And in they immediately reversed any gains in bravery that Vietnam and Watergate gave rise to.
This is the press who covered for Barack Obama for eight long years.
He killed civilians with drones and they weren't worried at all.
He continued wars and started new ones and they felt no need to hold him accountable or to report the truth.
Donald Trump strikes the posers as uncouth.
That's his crime for them.
So they rush to hold him 'accountable.'
Their refusal -- and this includes left outlets like MOTHER JONES -- to hold the liars of the Iraq War accountable demonstrates that they're not concerned with accountability.
A president, Barack, who was voted into office to end the Iraq War and managed to leave office eight years later without ever ending the Iraq War, was never held accountable.
The operation to 'liberate' Mosul began 132 days ago and still continues.
last updated map of situation in Mosul
#MosulOps
In the rush to sell the ongoing war, many western outlets are trying to reset the clock on The Mosul Slog -- CNN, for example, tried to call it 48 hours old last week.
They lied to start the Iraq War, they lie to continue it.
President Donald Trump's not off the mark when he notes the press is the enemy of the American people.
They are not protecting the people.
They have not protected the people in some time.
And in they immediately reversed any gains in bravery that Vietnam and Watergate gave rise to.
This is the press who covered for Barack Obama for eight long years.
He killed civilians with drones and they weren't worried at all.
He continued wars and started new ones and they felt no need to hold him accountable or to report the truth.
Donald Trump strikes the posers as uncouth.
That's his crime for them.
So they rush to hold him 'accountable.'
Their refusal -- and this includes left outlets like MOTHER JONES -- to hold the liars of the Iraq War accountable demonstrates that they're not concerned with accountability.
A president, Barack, who was voted into office to end the Iraq War and managed to leave office eight years later without ever ending the Iraq War, was never held accountable.
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