Thursday, December 24, 2020

PROJECT CENSORED

 
 
"Our Mission: Promoting Critical Media Literacy and Democracy

Project Censored educates students and the public about the importance of a truly free press for democratic self-government. We expose and oppose news censorship and we promote independent investigative journalism, media literacy, and critical thinking. Through our website, weekly radio program, annual book, and other programs, we provide this service to the United States, Canada, UK, and the world.

Censorship undermines democracy. An informed public is crucial to democracy in at least two basic ways.  First, without access to relevant news and opinion, people cannot fully participate in government. Second, without media literacy, people cannot evaluate for themselves the quality or significance of the news they receive. Project Censored’s work highlights the important links among a free press, media literacy, and democratic self-government." 
 
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 (Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp)
 
"Lee Camp rounds out 2020 with an interview with the director of Project Censored, Mickey Huff. Project Censored is a critical media organization that looks into the most censored stories every year. Camp and Huff discuss some of the stories included in this year's Project Censored report on corporate corruption, the future of journalism, and more."
 

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

IT'S HARD TO KILL A ROCK

 
 When nature is gone only the rocks will remain.
 
The greatest threat to human civilization is human civilization.

It's time we stopped talking about economic growth.
 
(Dr. Albert A. Bartlett on YouTube)
 
 

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

WEAK T

 TYT STINKS

This site used to link to TYT.

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I removed my link to TYT.

I discovered TYT waaay late, I thought it was another decent alternative media site. After I watched it a few times, I was very disappointed. Cenk turned me off and his staff seemed so naive and stupid I unsubscribed. Ana Kasparian was particularly annoying. She was so uninspiring I could never get through any of her commentary. I thought she was just an idiot, but now I think maybe she's stupid and a shill. 

TYT is a waste of time.

Monday, December 21, 2020

#FORCETHEVOTE

 

Jagoff Comedians unite!

Early on, I was impressed by AOC's passion and eloquence. Now, I'm not impressed by her actions.

AOC has brought up the obstacle of PAYGO as a reason to defer a floor vote on "Medicare for All."

Nancy Pelosi supported PAYGO. How many reasons do you need to stop supporting that old right-wing wind bag? Pelosi has got to go! The amazing thing about Dore's plan, is that it can happen without dumping Pelosi, so it's a win/lose plan, but still great.

M4A saves money. Period. Medical Insurance Companies are just a burdensome paperwork tax. Health insurance executives make millions and millions of dollars serving only as gatekeepers. No health insurance company has ever provided healthcare, they just take some of your money before they let you see a care provider. So called "death panels" occur when money can be made by adding paywalls to medical treatments.

A government bureaucrat processing claims has no incentive to deny legitimate requests for care. A single payer system streamlines the process and removes the profit motives that literally kill people. And M4A is not a "government-run" healthcare system, doctors and hospitals would remain private (if that's what concerns you). It's just an easier and more efficient way to pay the bills. Everyone from your president to your local bagger at the market would share your medical plan. And healthcare plans wouldn't be controlled by your employer, or even be incumbent upon employment at all. Everyone would have coverage. Period.

If PAYGO is invoked, deflect all necessary funds from military spending. In fact, money should stop going to the Military Industrial Complex until they can pass an audit.

AOC Interview Signals She's Unwilling to Fight Pelosi For Medicare 4 All

(The Jimmy Dore Show)

Thursday, December 17, 2020

DUH SIROTA

 
DUH SIROTA

I've spent years not giving a shit about what this asshole thinks.

It's a relief I don't have to start now.

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DEBUNKED Distraction Tactics Against Forcing Medicare 4 All Vote!

 (The Jimmy Dore Show)


INSTASCAM'S MINISTRY OF TRUTH


Glenn Greenwald

Instagram is Using False “Fact-Checking” to Protect Joe Biden’s Crime Record From Criticisms

(greenwald.substack.com)

The Facebook-owned platform’s denunciation of a well-established view of Biden shows the dangers of internet censorship and the fraudulent use of “fact-checking.”

"A long-standing and vehement criticism of Joe Biden is that legislation he championed as a Senator in the 1980s and 1990s, particularly his crime bill of 1994, contributed to the mass incarceration of Americans generally and African-Americans specifically.

Among the many on the left and libertarian right who have voiced this criticism (along with President Trump) is then-Senator Kamala Harris, who said during the 2020 Democratic primary race that Biden’s “crime bill -- that 1994 crime bill -- it did contribute to mass incarceration in our country.” When Hillary Clinton was running for President in 2015, Bill Clinton, who as president signed Biden’s bill into law, told the NAACP: “I signed a bill that made the problem worse. And I want to admit it."

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While that debate over the damage done by Biden’s crime bill has long raged in Democratic Party politics and the criminal justice reform movement, it is now barred from being aired on the Facebook-owned social media giant Instagram, or at least is formally denounced as disinformation. With Joe Biden about to enter the White House — one that will exercise significant influence in determining Silicon Valley’s interests, will be filled with tech executives, and was made possible in large part by Silicon Valley’s largesse poured into the Biden/Harris campaign — Instagram has arrogated unto itself the power to declare these well-established criticisms of Biden and his crime bill to be “False” and having “no basis in fact.”

The Death Cult Abidens


FOREVER WARS

Biden's Scary Foreign Policy Picks: A Blast From War Crimes Past

(The Empire Files - YouTube)

"A breakdown of Biden's new defense cabinet and what it means for war & peace. Who is Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Avril Haines, Lloyd Austin and Linda Thomas-Greenfield?"

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America is addicted to killing people.


Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Force a vote for M4A!


House Progressives Can FORCE a Medicare For All Vote Now -- Here's How!

(The Jimmy Dore Show)

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We don't vote for representatives to ensure they have a lucrative career. We expect them to represent us. I haven't seen much of that in the last half century.

A profit-driven healthcare system designed to make individuals tremendously wealthy, while bankrupting the general public is, dare I say it, nonsensical. Or evil. Evil is another word that works here.

I know Republicans won't do the right thing.

I don't expect Democrats to do the right thing.

I would be thrilled to be proven wrong.