POST 2016 ELECTION
NOVEMBER
2016
November
30, 2016 -
The specter of a growing far-right nationalism anywhere,
but particularly in Central Europe, immediately and
for good and obvious reasons raises fears of an anti-semitism
revival. But at least thus far, the leaders of most of these
nationalistic parties increasingly inspired and fueled
by one anothers success have showcased dangerous
animosity toward Muslims, accompanied by strong policy support
for Israel and a rhetorical repudiation of anti-semitism.
Intercept
Frightened
by Donald Trump? You dont know the half of it - Many
of his staffers are from an opaque corporate misinformation
network. We must understand this if we are to have any hope
of fighting back against them. Guardian Many
of his staffers are from an opaque corporate misinformation
network. We must understand this if we are to have any hope
of fighting back against them
Guardian
Think Trump's scary now? Obama is leaving him with broad
war powers - The president-elect keeps news cycles churning
with his unhinged tweets, but its the current administrations
expanding military license that should scare us. Guardian
The
CIA and the Press: When the Washington Post Ran the CIAs
Propaganda Network -
CounterPunch
November
29, 2016 -
Chris Hedges Strategy for Radical Change at Green Party
of New Jersey Convention - (50min
video.)
November
28, 2016 -
US
veterans are gathering and plan to join the struggle at
Standing Rock. This could develop into something big. Finally,
US soldiers have a chance to fight for the American people.
CounterPunch
We await the crisis. It could be economic.. a terrorist
attack ... widespread devastation by global warming.,,,
nationwide unrest as the death spiral of the American empire
intensifies. The crisis is coming. And when it arrives it
will be seized upon by the corporate state, nominally led
by a clueless real estate developer, to impose martial law
and formalize the end of American democracy.
TruthDig
(Hedges)
With
Rule 41, Little-Known Committee Proposes to Grant New Hacking
Powers to the Government ... The
government hacking into phones and seizing computers remotely?
Its not the plot of a dystopian blockbuster summer
movie. Its a proposal from an obscure committee that
proposes changes to court proceduresand if we do nothing,
it will go into effect in December. EFF
Related: Senators Not Impressed By DOJ's Answers On
Rule 41 Changes TechDirt
Related: Federal Rules of Civil Procedure - Rule
41. Dismissal of Actions. Cornell
Relativism
and Castro - Murray
November
27, 2016 -
Arrests of Journalists at Standing Rock Test the Boundaries
of the First Amendment - "... Denver-based journalist,
was shot in the abdomen last Sunday by a rubber bullet as
he reported from North Dakota on a clash between demonstrators
and police that would end with 26 protesters sent to hospitals
and 300 requiring other medical treatment.
Intercept
MSM
(Main Stream Media) will hit on "fake news", but
rarely, because they promote it. The real issue is much
deeper ...
The
Biggest Political Lie of 2016 -
We are in very dangerous times, of mobs and meaninglessness.
People arent swayed by facts anymore; theyre
indifferent to reality and openly scornful of experts. Slate
Yes,
Id Lie To You - "...It is thus tempting to dismiss
the idea of post-truth political discourse ...
as a modish myth invented by de-haut-en-bas liberals and
sore losers ignorant of how dirty a business politics has
always been. But that would be complacent. There is a strong
case that, in America and elsewhere, there is a shift towards
a politics in which feelings trump facts more freely and
with less resistance ... (now) a deluge of facts and a public
much less given to trust than once it was, some politicians
are getting away with a new depth and pervasiveness of falsehood....
Economist
Washington
Post Disgracefully Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist From
a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group. Intercept
What
Is The Alt-Right And Who Is In It? The Frightening Rise
And Rise Of The White Nationalist Movement. Huffington
November
26, 2016 -
Dakota
Pipeline issue gets almost zero coverage in the main stream
media (MSM). It does get considerable coverage outside the
US. To see full coverage go to Democracy
Now
Wounded
Knee III in the Making?
CounterPunch
Feds
Plan To Shut Down Dakota Access Pipeline Protest Camp ....
Hundreds of protesters have until Dec. 5 to get out or face
prosecution.
Huffington
Sheriffs
Refuse to Send Troops to Standing Rock as Costs and Public
Outrage Mount TruthDig
Indian
Country News
Not My
Tribe
Sacred
Stone Camp
The
most interesting question about 2016 is not why the Brexit
result and Trump happened, but whether historians will regard
both as incidental; whether this will go down as the year
democracy revealed itself unworkable in the age of the internet
in which reality, already engaged in a life-or-death
struggle with inverted commas, finally gave way to alt-reality.
Guardian
November
25, 2016 -
Over the weekend, there were a flurry of stories about how
Donald Trump and his family are already using the presidency
to leverage his overseas businesses as well as his new DC
hotel. Well, now there's more. This time in Argentina TPM
"Perhaps
2016 will be the year we stop telling ourselves that we
live in a democracy." -
The system is rigged for the Presidential election ,,, The
system is rigged at the local government level too ...CELDF
If
You Think the Electoral College is the Only Problem
Well, thats Part of the Problem ... The Counter Revolutionary
Founding Fathers and the Electoral College ...
The
answer isnt pretty. It exposes the founding
fathers who wrote the current US Constitution for
the undemocratic, racist, misogynist counter-revolutionaries
that they were. In 1789 when the US Constitution was ratified,
it included provisions that protected the property rights
of slave owners against any claim that their human chattel
had legal and civil rights. CELDF
November
24, 2016 -
Funny... YouTube
You
can tell a lot about potential Cabinet nominees by the terrorist
group they shill for. - Giulaini took money from a Group
that Killed Americans. Does Trump care? Politico
Making
White Supremacy Respectable Again.
LA
Times
Donald
Trump Taps Billionaire School Voucher Advocate To Run Americas
Schools
The president-elect rewarded GOP megadonor Betsy DeVos with
the position of education secretary. Huffington
President-elect
Donald Trumps authoritarian style and personality,
which attracted an overwhelmingly authoritarian following,
is manifesting itself in the selection of his national security
team.
CounterPunch
November
23, 2016 -
Jack London's vision of workers' future looks a lot like
our present ... "The
Iron Heel is a dystopian story of the US crushed under the
boots of super-rich oligarchs, and often feels like a contemporary
documentary" Guardian
The
dramatic protests against an oil pipeline in North Dakota
....... has grown into something much larger, and more contentious.
And that could bode either ill or well for a nation....
LA
Times
Trump to scrap Nasa climate research in crackdown on politicized
science - Nasas
Earth science division is set to be stripped of funding
as the president-elect seeks to shift focus away from home
in favor of deep space exploration
Guardian
Chris
Hedges: Trump Will Crush Dissent With Even Greater Violence
and Savagery
(YouTube video) View
(8 minutes)
Dumocrats
finally grew a pair? .... top Democrats on the House Financial
Services Committee sent a letter to Inspectors General at
federal financial services agencies, the Department of Housing
and Urban Development, and the Department of Justice, calling
on them to root out any potential conflicts of interests
in President-elect Donald Trumps administration. Read
Update - HC calls for recount
Read
Hedge fund managers expect a re turn on their investment
in Trump - The hedge fund guys didnt build this
country, Donald Trump told Face the Nation
in August 2015. These are guys that shift paper around
and they get lucky. Read
November
22, 2016 -
Note:
2 weeks on and we still don't have a final tally of the
votes cast. Reminder: Hillary won the popular vote.
Trumps financial disclosures obscure his foreign business
interests - ... most recent financial disclosure statement
by Trump shows that of the 564 companies on which he reported
holding an executive position, at least 120 of them were
tied to his business dealings abroad. Read
Update on meeting: Read
Donald
Trump Met Privately With Network Executives And Anchors
- The president-elect reportedly scolded the media for its
coverage and discussed access concerns. Read
(Nnte: this event has not been reported on the majority
of main-stream-media (MSM) sites, including CNN. However,
CNN does report on NYT's canceled, then reinstated meeting
here
Will
Republicans rein in a corrupt Trump presidency? Dont
bet on it. ... Trump vowed to drain the swamp
of corruption in Washington. But experts on governmental
ethics are increasingly worried that Trumps presidency,
and his refusal to place his global business empire in a
blind trust...
Read
Trump
in the White House: An Interview With Noam Chomsky ... has
warned that the political climate in the U.S. is ripe for
the rise of an authoritarian figure.
Read
November
21, 2016 -
The
ruthlessly effective rebranding of Europes new far
right - Across the continent, rightwing populist parties
have seized control of the political conversation. How have
they done it? By stealing the language, causes and voters
of the traditional left Read
(May
2016) Fascism: Can It Happen Here?
When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped
in the flag and carrying a cross, goes a saying that
is widely attributed to the first American to win the Nobel
Prize for Literature, Sinclair Lewis.
Read
Something
will crack:... Americans trying to unpick the phenomenon
of Donald Trump have turned to a late left-leaning academic,
who predicted that old industrialized democracies were heading
into a Weimar-like period in which populist movements could
overturn constitutional governments.
Read
(July 2016) In 2004, the eminent political scientist offered
key insights into the nationalist-cosmopolitan divide at
the heart of our society. Read
(April
2010) Noam Chomsky Has Never Seen Anything Like This
Read
Surveillance Self-Defense Against the Trump Administration
- (Trump) ... ego-maniac - and with it control over a vast
and all-too-unaccountable intelligence apparatus; and in
a speech .. three weeks ago, .. promised to sue all of the
women who have come forward with sexual assault accusations
against him. Read
It's
Offical, Truth is dead. Facts are Passed. - The Oxford dictionary
defines post-truth as relating to or denoting
circumstances in which objective facts are less influential
in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal
belief.
Read
November
20, 2016 -
Trump on Israel - May 22 - Trump Wins Over AIPAC Audience
With Strong pro-Israel Stance - 'President
Obama is the worst thing to happen to Israel,' Trump says
to massive applause at AIPAC gathering, vowing to pressure
Palestinians to accept Israel as Jewish state and Jerusalem
as its capital.
Read
But
then: Trumps top Pentagon pick said settlements were
creating apartheid - Retired Marine Corps general
James Mattis, seen as front-runner for defense secretary
post, also insisted the US pays a price in Middle East for
its support of Israel. Read
American
activists must move from detached indignation to revolutionary
engagement by using the techniques of social movement creation
to dominate elections. Read
November
19, 2016 -
Donald Trump's election has put establishment.
Politicians in Europe in a state of panic. In Berlin, nobody
knows what the US president-elect intends to do. In Brussels,
fears are growing he will put wind into the sails of the
growing anti-EU populist movement. Trump Spells End of Normality
for Europe Read
The
Election was Stolen Heres How
Starting in 2013 just as the Supreme Court gutted
the Voting Rights Act a coterie of Trump operatives,
under the direction of Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of
State, created a system to purge 1.1 million Americans of
color from the voter rolls of GOPcontrolled states.
Read
Related:
The GOPs secret scheme begins purge of a million minority
voters from voter rolls Read
Related:
March 5, 2015 - From White Sheets to Spreadsheets. Read
The
Art of Speaking Like Donald Trump, in 10 Easy Steps Read
The
"new normal". Pence booed - Read
November
17, 2016 -
Americans who think the 2016 presidential election was far
too reminiscent of the 2000 edition might be on to something.
Whats more, like a busted clock, President-elect Donald
Trump could actually be right twice: that the swamp
of Washington, D.C., needs draining, and that U.S. elections
can be stolen.
Read
.
The
neoliberal era in the United States ended with a neofascist
bang. The political triumph of Donald Trump shattered the
establishments in the Democratic and Republican parties
both wedded to the rule of Big Money and to the reign
of meretricious politicians. Read
Neoliberalism
the ideology at the root of all our problems.....
Imagine if the people of the Soviet Union had never heard
of communism. The ideology that dominates our lives has,
for most of us, no name. Mention it in conversation and
youll be rewarded with a shrug. Even if your listeners
have heard the term before, they will struggle to define
it. Neoliberalism: do you know what it is? Read
November
16, 21016-
Republicans are one state legislature away from acquiring
the legal authority to call a new constitutional convention
under Article V of the Constitution, reports Charles Pierce
at Esquire.
Read
Titanponte:
NSA
Spy Hub in NY Hidden in Plain Sight Read
Right-wing
leaders in the Israeli government have seized on the election
of Donald Trump to push forward assertive new legislation
that would legalize Jewish settlements in the West Bank
built on privately owned Palestinian land. Read
"Netanyahu
was among the first to congratulate Trump by phone. The
US president-elect reciprocated by inviting him for talks
at the first opportunity. And yet Netanyahu
is reported to be anxious about a Trump White House. Why?
Read
November 15, 2016 -
""In short, in neither the US nor the UK is a
viable radical alternative going to be put before the electorate
in the near future. Those who believe either Brexit or Trump
presage a break from neo-liberalism will be sore disappointed.
They represent the continuance of neo-liberalism, but with
popular discontent diverted into added racism."
Read
November
14, 2016: -
On
November 8, the most powerful country in world history,
which will set its stamp on what comes next, had an election.
The outcome placed total control of the government -- executive,
Congress, the Supreme Court -- in the hands of the Republican
Party, which has become the most dangerous organization
in world history.
Read
The
events that led to Donald Trumps election
started in England in 1975. At a meeting a few months after
Margaret Thatcher became leader of the Conservative party,
one of her colleagues, or so the story goes, was explaining
what he saw as the core beliefs of conservatism. Read
November
13, 2016 -
Chomsky
on Trump: 'Almost a death knell for the human species' May
2016 interview
Recommended
reading: Right turn : the decline of the democrats... 1987
by Thomas Ferguson and Joel Rogers. (Amazon
link here)
Then
read this: The
Collapse of Bill Clintons Third Way (2006)
Margaret Weir - Univ.of California, Berkeley
The
United States has been plunged into a state of purgatory
following the election of Donald Trump. In all political
quarters, people are engaged in their own post-mortem analysis
of how this happened and what it means, not only for the
future of this country, but for the world. Read
Or listen
to it here
November
11, 2016 -
It's Worse Than You Think:
Widespread social unrest will ignite when Donald Trumps
base realizes it has been betrayed. I do not know when this
will happen. But that it will happen is certain. Investments
in the stocks of the war industry, internal security and
the prison-industrial complex have skyrocketed since Trump
won the presidency. There is a lot of money to be made from
a militarized police state. Read
Even
before Donald Trump's election victory it was becoming clear
that we are living in an age of disintegration. Nation states
are returning to relationships based on rivalry and friction
when the trend was meant to be in the opposite direction
Read
Americans
have now entered into one of the most sickening and dangerous
periods of the 21st century. Trump is not only a twisted
caricature of every register of economic, political, educational,
and social fundamentalism, he is the apogee of a warrior
culture committed to rolling back civil rights, womens
reproductive rights, and all vestiges of economic justice
and democracy. Read
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