Finding Bigots They’re not saying “Rudy”. They’re saying “Boooo”. In some places they call that a “Bronx Cheer”. In the Bronx they say the same because “What the f*ck you looking at Motherf*cker?” is a friendly greeting. Now in Philly you don’t know they love you until they start throwing batteries. “Cs” are best. “Ds” …
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May 30 2018
The Italian Establishment’s Economic Illiteracy and Assault on Democracy
Needless to say both supported by the mouthpiece of the Neo Liberal establishment, The New York Times. Our friend Bill Black explains- The New York Times Praises the Italian Establishment’s Economic Illiteracy and Assault on Democracy by William Black, New Economic Perspectives May 29, 2018 I start with the NYT’s second lie, for exposing it …
May 30 2018
Lies My Government Told Me
Puerto Rico’s Uncounted Dead: Study Says Hurricane Maria Toll Far Higher Than Official Count How Puerto Rico’s Death Toll Was Ignored, and Could Have Been Avoided Deadlier than Katrina & 9/11: Hurricane Maria Killed 4,645 in Puerto Rico, 70 Times Official Toll From The New York Times? More weak tea and underestimation. Puerto Rico’s Hurricane …
May 29 2018
Sign Of The Times
Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj. Roseanne Barr, May 29th, 2:45 am Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show. ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey, May 29th 1.45 pm What you have to remember is that your Racist, Bigot, Misogynist …
May 29 2018
“A Tragic Misconception Of Time”
While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would have little time for anything other than …
May 28 2018
If by US you mean me…
Among the most ironic, in the classic sense of highlighting a fatal flaw of which the audience is well aware but that eludes the grasp of the tragic protagonist, statements to emerge from the French Revolution is Louis XIV’s- “L’état, c’est moi” (I am the Nation). It exudes the hubris, the foolish pride and extreme …
May 27 2018
William Tecumseh Sherman
This is what is meant by a “Shermanesque Statement”. You people of the South don’t know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don’t know what …
May 26 2018
Why The World Doesn’t Want U.S. Produce
In 1906 Upton Sinclair published The Jungle, a lightly fictionalized account of labor abuses in the United States. Sinclair, a Socialist, intended the book to highlight the inhuman working conditions that prevailed in Industry. Jack London reviewed it as “The Uncle Tom’s Cabin of wage slavery.” Not every reader was so perceptive and even today …
May 25 2018
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! Moderation in the pursuit of justice and Tolerance in the face of tyranny are no virtues.
So we’ve been talking about the pernicious doctrine of “Centrism“. Here’s a take from our friends David Dayen and Ryan Grim over at The Intercept– Party Leaders Are Not Strategic Geniuses, They Just Really Like Moderates, New Research Finds by David Dayen and Ryan Grim, The Intercept May 23, 2018 The battle between grassroots Democratic …
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