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Corporate Fascist Corruption of Christianity
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: January 25, 2016, 9:40 pm
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[center]The Suicide of the Liberal Church [/center]
Posted on Jan 24, 2016
By Chris Hedges
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The chapel of The General Theological Seminary in New York City.
The seminary, founded in 1817, sold much of its property to
developers in recent years. (Julie Jacobson / AP) (graphic at
article link)
Paul Tillich wrote that all institutions, including the church,
are inherently demonic. Reinhold Niebuhr asserted that no
institution could ever achieve the morality of the individual.
Institutions, he warned, to extend their lives when confronted
with collapse, will swiftly betray the stances that ostensibly
define them. Only individual men and women have the strength to
hold fast to virtue when faced with the threat of death.
And decaying institutions, including the church, when consumed
by fear, swiftly push those endowed with this moral courage and
radicalism from their ranks, rendering themselves obsolete.
The wisdom of Tillich and Niebuhr has been borne out in the
precipitous decline of the liberal church and the seminaries and
divinity schools that train religious scholars and clergy. Faced
with shrinking or nonexistent endowments, mounting debts,
dwindling memberships, a lack of employment for their graduates
and growing irrelevancy in a society that has little use for
tepid church piety and the smug arrogance that comes with it,
these institutions have fallen into physical and moral decay.
The number of adults in the mainline Protestant
churches—Presbyterian, Unitarian-Universalist, Lutheran,
Methodist, Episcopalian, Congregationalist—decreased from about
41 million in 2007 to 36 million in 2014, according to the Pew
Research Center. And the average age of the congregant is 52.
The Catholic Church also is being decimated; its decline has
been exacerbated by its decades-long protection of sexual
predators within the priesthood and the Vatican’s relentless
campaign, especially under John Paul II, to force out of the
church priests, nuns and lay leaders who focused their
ministries on the poor and the oppressed. The Catholic Church,
which has lost 3 million members over the last decade, has seen
its hold on the U.S. population fall to 21 percent from 24.
Mainline seminaries and divinity schools have been merging or
closing, and enrollment at such schools has declined by 24
percent in the last decade. Andover-Newton, founded in 1807,
recently shut down. Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg,
Pa., and Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia plan to
merge. Union Theological Seminary, where black liberation,
feminist, womanist and queer theologies have their roots,
appears to be on the verge of selling “air space” to a developer
to construct a luxury 35-to-40-story condominium building on its
campus. General Theological Seminary in New York City, a school
founded in 1817, has sold much of its property to developers,
and it ended tenure for its faculty after the professors went
out on strike to demand the removal of Dean and President Kurt
Dunkle. Dunkle, who epitomizes the infusion of corporatism into
the church, worked for many years as a lawyer doing commercial
litigation before being ordained.
“What doomed General Seminary was not just financial
mismanagement, but unethical leadership,” Rob Stephens, a
third-year student for the ministry at Union and part of a
student movement fighting Union’s building project, said when I
spoke with him by phone. “That is what made the faculty walk
out. The Union administration, board of trustees and all of us
need to learn this lesson and put a halt to the project.
The Union administration has said that Union, by building this
luxury condominium, was being as bold as the original founders.
This is one thing I can agree on. The original founders
envisioned a place for privileged, white men. The original
founders called abolitionism ‘fanaticism.’ The founders’ values
won’t get us through this storm. Union is bigger than the
administration and board. Union should be for all God’s people.
If built, this luxury condominium would be a middle finger to
Harlem. It would be a middle finger to faith-based social
movements.
“This seminary has turned Black Lives Matter into a commodity,”
he went on. “They sell this campus as being allied with Black
Lives Matter and other social justice movements. But if we are
readers of the Bible, we know that saying one thing and doing
another leads to internal combustion. Inconsistency of values
and actions can only lead to failure. As a seminary community,
how can we have more faith in an unstable housing market than in
the Gospel? You can’t reconcile luxury condominiums built by an
anti-union contractor and no affordable housing with the Gospel
of Jesus. This is another example of mainline Christianity
casting their lot with capitalism instead of community. When
will we learn?”
The self-identified religious institutions that thrive preach
the perverted “prosperity gospel,” the message that magic Jesus
will make you rich, respected and powerful if you believe in
him. Jesus, they claim, is an American capitalist, bigot and
ardent imperialist.
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>:( These sects selectively lift passages from the Bible to
justify the unjustifiable, including homophobia, war, racism
against Muslims, and the death penalty. Yet there are more
students—2,067—at the evangelical Gordon-Conwell Theological
Seminary alone than at the divinity schools and seminaries of
Yale, Harvard, Union, Vanderbilt and Chicago, whose combined
enrollment is 1,537.
The doctrine these sects preach is Christian heresy. The
Christian faith—as in the 1930s under Germany’s pro-Nazi
Christian church—is being distorted to sanctify nationalism,
unregulated capitalism and militarism. The mainstream church,
which refuses to denounce these heretics as heretics, a decision
made in the name of tolerance, tacitly gives these sects
credibility and squanders the prophetic voice of the church.
Kevin Kruse in his book “One Nation Under God: How Corporate
America Invented Christian America” details how industrialists
in the 1930s and 1940s poured money and resources into an effort
to silence the social witness of the mainstream church, which
was home to many radicals, socialists and proponents of the New
Deal. These corporatists promoted and funded a brand of
Christianity—which is today dominant—that conflates faith with
free enterprise and American exceptionalism. The rich are rich,
this creed goes, not because they are greedy or privileged, not
because they use their power to their own advantage, not because
they oppress the poor and the vulnerable, but because they are
blessed.
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And if we have enough faith, this heretical form of Christianity
claims, God will bless the rest of us
too.
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You don’t need to spend three years at Harvard Divinity School
as I did to figure that out.
Full article:
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Agelbert NOTE:
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> "The mainline churches, by which we mean white denominations,
are responsible for many of our greatest social ills, ..."
>
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AGREED.
And they, like the "greed is good" bastards that corrupted this
country, began their descent into irrelevancy and chaos when
they forgot that respect for all life, not just human life, is a
sine qua non REQUIREMENT for the perpetuation of a tool making,
self aware species.
Although It certainly was part of the Christian Gospel before
the corporate fascists corrupted it, you don't need to read it
in the Holy Scripture to know it is true.
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Re: Corporate Fascist Corruption of Christianity
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: January 31, 2016, 6:05 pm
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[center]Wise Advice from Webster Tarpley
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Tax Wall Street Party Calls on Iowa and New Hampshire to Stop
Fascist Trump at All Costs; Democrats Should Hold Their Noses
and Vote for Bernie Sanders to Keep Primaries and Convention
Open
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Re: Corporate Fascist Corruption of Christianity
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: November 24, 2016, 12:14 pm
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Agelbert REMINDER to those who will be "offended" (because they
are supporters of the President Elect) by the hard truths stated
in the article below:
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TOPICS: Democracy & Government
TAGS: 2016 election, donald trump, hillary clinton, media
criticism
Democracy & Government
[center]Farewell, America
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No matter how the rest of the world looked at us on Nov. 7, they
will now look at us differently.
By Neal Gabler | November 10, 2016
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[center]The sun sets behind the Jefferson Memorial in
Washington. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)[/center]
America died on Nov. 8, 2016, not with a bang or a whimper, but
at its own hand via electoral suicide. We the people chose a man
who has shredded our values, our morals, our compassion, our
tolerance, our decency, our sense of common purpose, our very
identity — all the things that, however tenuously, made a nation
out of a country.
Whatever place we now live in is not the same place it was on
Nov. 7. No matter how the rest of the world looked at us on Nov.
7, they will now look at us differently. We are likely to be a
pariah country. And we are lost for it. As I surveyed the ruin
of that country this gray Wednesday morning, I found weary
consolation in W.H. Auden’s poem, September 1, 1939, which
concludes:
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> BY Neal Gabler | November 8, 2016
>
> “Defenseless under the night
> Our world in stupor lies;
> Yet, dotted everywhere,
> Ironic points of light
> Flash out wherever the Just
> Exchange their messages:
> May I, composed like them
> Of Eros and of dust,
> Beleaguered by the same
> Negation and despair,
> Show an affirming flame.”
>
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I hunt for that affirming flame.
This generally has been called the “hate election” because
everyone professed to hate both candidates. It turned out to be
the hate election because, and let’s not mince words, of the
hatefulness of the electorate. In the years to come, we will
brace for the violence, the anger, the racism, the misogyny, the
xenophobia, the nativism, the white sense of grievance that will
undoubtedly be unleashed now that we have destroyed the values
that have bound us.
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> We all knew these hatreds lurked under the thinnest veneer of
civility. That civility finally is gone.
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We all knew these hatreds lurked under the thinnest veneer of
civility. That civility finally is gone. In its absence, we may
realize just how imperative that politesse was. It is the way we
managed to coexist.
If there is a single sentence that characterizes the election,
it is this: “He says the things I’m thinking.” That may be what
is so terrifying. Who knew that so many tens of millions of
white Americans were thinking unconscionable things about their
fellow Americans? Who knew that tens of millions of white men
felt so emasculated by women and challenged by minorities? Who
knew that after years of seeming progress on race and gender,
tens of millions of white Americans lived in seething
resentment, waiting for a demagogue to arrive who would
legitimize their worst selves and channel them into political
power? Perhaps we had been living in a fool’s paradise. Now we
aren’t.
This country has survived a civil war, two world wars, and a
great depression. There are many who say we will survive this,
too. Maybe we will, but we won’t survive unscathed. We know too
much about each other to heal. No more can we pretend that we
are exceptional or good or progressive or united. We are none of
those things. Nor can we pretend that democracy works and that
elections have more or less happy endings. Democracy only
functions when its participants abide by certain conventions,
certain codes of conduct and a respect for the process.
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> No more can we pretend that we are exceptional or good or
progressive or united. We are none of those things.
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The virus that kills democracy is extremism because extremism
disables those codes. Republicans have disrespected the process
for decades. They have regarded any Democratic president as
illegitimate. They have proudly boasted of preventing popularly
elected Democrats from effecting policy and have asserted that
only Republicans have the right to determine the nation’s
course. They have worked tirelessly to make sure that the
government cannot govern and to redefine the purpose of
government as prevention rather than effectuation. In short,
they haven’t believed in democracy for a long time, and the
media never called them out on it.
Democracy can’t cope with extremism. Only violence and time can
defeat it. The first is unacceptable, the second takes too long.
Though Trump is an extremist, I have a feeling that he will be a
very popular president and one likely to be re-elected by a
substantial margin, no matter what he does or fails to do.
That’s because ever since the days of Ronald Reagan, rhetoric
has obviated action, speechifying has superseded governing.
Trump
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someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and his supporters
wouldn’t care. It was a dictator’s ugly vaunt
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but one that
recognized this election never was about policy or economics or
the “right path/wrong path,” or even values. It was about
venting. So long as Trump vented their grievances, his all-white
supporters didn’t care about anything else. He is smart enough
to know that won’t change in the presidency. In fact, it is only
likely to intensify. White America, Trump’s America, just wants
to hear its anger bellowed. This is one time when the Bully
Pulpit will be literal.
The media can’t be let off the hook for enabling an
authoritarian to get to the White House. Long before he
considered a presidential run, he was a media creation — a
regular in the gossip pages, a photo on magazine covers, the
bankrupt (morally and otherwise) mogul who hired and fired on
The Apprentice. When he ran, the media treated him not as a
candidate, but as a celebrity, and so treated him differently
from ordinary pols. The media gave him free publicity, trumpeted
his shenanigans, blasted out his tweets, allowed him to phone in
his interviews, fell into his traps and generally kowtowed until
they suddenly discovered that this joke could actually become
president.
Just as Trump has shredded our values, our nation and our
democracy, he has shredded the media. In this, as in his
politics, he is only the latest avatar of a process that began
long before his candidacy. Just as the sainted Ronald Reagan
created an unbridgeable chasm between rich and poor that the
Republicans would later exploit against Democrats, conservatives
delegitimized mainstream journalism so that they could fill the
vacuum.
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> With Trump’s election, I think that the ideal of an objective,
truthful journalism is dead, never to be revived.
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Retiring conservative talk show host Charlie Sykes complained
that after years of bashing from the right wing, the mainstream
media no longer could perform their function as reporters,
observers, fact dispensers, and even truth tellers, and he said
we needed them. Like Goebbels before them, conservatives
understood that they had to create their own facts, their own
truths, their own reality. They have done so, and in so doing
effectively destroyed the very idea of objectivity. Trump can
lie constantly only because white America has accepted an
Orwellian sense of truth — the truth pulled inside out.
With Trump’s election, I think that the ideal of an objective,
truthful journalism is dead, never to be revived. Like Nixon and
Sarah Palin before him, Trump ran against the media,
boomeranging off the public’s contempt for the press. He ran
against what he regarded as media elitism and bias, and he ran
on the idea that the press disdained working-class white
America. Among the many now-widening divides in the country,
this is a big one, the divide between the media and
working-class whites, because it creates a Wild West of
information – a media ecology in which nothing can be believed
except what you already believe.
With the mainstream media so delegitimized — a delegitimization
for which they bear a good deal of blame, not having had the
courage to take on lies and expose false equivalencies — they
have very little role to play going forward in our politics. I
suspect most of them will surrender to Trumpism — if they were
able to normalize Trump as a candidate, they will no doubt
normalize him as president.
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Cable news may even welcome him as a continuous entertainment
and ratings booster. And in any case, like Reagan, he is
bulletproof. The media cannot touch him, even if they wanted to.
Presumably, there will be some courageous guerillas in the
mainstream press, a kind of Resistance, who will try to
fact-check him. But there will be few of them, and they will be
whistling in the wind. Trump, like all dictators, is his own
truth.
What’s more, Trump already has promised to take his war on the
press into courtrooms and the halls of Congress. He wants to
loosen libel protections, and he has threatened Washington Post
owner Jeff Bezos of Amazon with an antitrust suit. Individual
journalists have reason to fear him as well. He has already
singled out NBC’s Katy Tur, perhaps the best of the television
reporters, so that she needed the Secret Service to escort her
from one of his rallies. Jewish journalists who have criticized
Trump have been subjected to vicious anti-Semitism and
intimidation from the alt-right. For the press, this is likely
to be the new normal in an America in which white supremacists,
neo-Nazi militias, racists, sexists, homophobes and anti-Semites
have been legitimized by a new president who “says what I’m
thinking.” It will be open season.
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This converts the media from reporters to targets, and they have
little recourse. Still, if anyone points the way forward, it may
be New York Times columnist David Brooks. Brooks is no paragon.
He always had seemed to willfully neglect modern Republicanism’s
incipient fascism (now no longer incipient), and he was an
apologist for conservative self-enrichment and bigotry. But this
campaign season, Brooks pretty much dispensed with politics. He
seemed to have arrived at the conclusion that no good could
possibly come of any of this and retreated into spirituality.
What Brooks promoted were values of mutual respect, a bolder
sense of civic engagement, an emphasis on community and
neighborhood, and overall a belief in trickle-up decency rather
than trickle-down economics. He is not hopeful, but he hasn’t
lost all hope.
For those of us now languishing in despair, this may be a
prescription for rejuvenation. We have lost the country, but by
refocusing, we may have gained our own little patch of the world
and, more granularly, our own family. For journalists, Brooks
may show how political reporting, which, as I said, is likely to
be irrelevant in the Trump age, might yield to a broader moral
context in which one considers the effect that policy, strategy
and governance have not only on our physical and economic
well-being but also on our spiritual well-being. In a society
that is likely to be fractious and odious, we need a national
conversation on values. The media could help start it.
But the disempowered media may have one more role to fill: They
must bear witness. Many years from now, future generations will
need to know what happened to us and how it happened. They will
need to know how disgruntled white Americans, full of
self-righteous indignation, found a way to take back a country
they felt they were entitled to and which they believed had been
lost. They will need to know about the ugliness and evil that
destroyed us as a nation after great men like Lincoln and
Roosevelt guided us through previous crises and kept our values
intact. They will need to know, and they will need a vigorous,
engaged, moral media to tell them. They will also need us.
We are not living for ourselves anymore in this country. Now we
are living for history.
Neal Gabler is an author of five books and the recipient of two
LA Times Book Prizes, Time magazine's non-fiction book of the
year, USA Today's biography of the year and other awards. He is
also a senior fellow at The Norman Lear Center at the University
of Southern California, and is currently writing a biography of
Sen. Edward Kennedy.
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Agelbert NOTE: Great article, but, unlike the author, many
millions of Americans, like myself, KNEW about this suicidal
trajectory, of which the ubiquitous racism is but one symptom of
America's moral decay.
Neal Gabler is a good man of principle. He is clear on what is
right and what is wrong. However, as the reality of the WAY
things REALLY are in the USA struck him like a kick in the
groin, Neal Gabler's surprise is evidence that he was a victim
of white privileged liberal wishful thinking. None of the
following was a surprise to me and millions of other Americans
of mixed ancestry that know the score.
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> If there is a single sentence that characterizes the election,
it is this: “He says the things I’m thinking.” That may be what
is so terrifying. Who knew that so many tens of millions of
white Americans were thinking unconscionable things about their
fellow Americans? Who knew that tens of millions of white men
felt so emasculated by women and challenged by minorities? Who
knew that after years of seeming progress on race and gender,
tens of millions of white Americans lived in seething
resentment, waiting for a demagogue to arrive who would
legitimize their worst selves and channel them into political
power? Perhaps we had been living in a fool’s paradise. Now we
aren’t.
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I have been warning about it to deaf ears for over a decade.
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Also, unlike Neal Gabler, I dated the final nail in the coffin
of American Democracy much earlier than this election.
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I dated it to when THIS GUY had the nomination for VP stolen
from him so the Truman party hack could do the bidding of the
M.I.C. when Roosevelt died.
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But, you know what? The abysmally stupid and morally corruptive
embrace of greed, xenophobia and racism is the LEAST of our
worries as a people in this perfect storm of Wall Street 'dial a
reality' that so many fools and knaves wish to celebrate.
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> Like Goebbels before them, conservatives understood that they
had to create their own facts, their own truths, their own
reality. They have done so, and in so doing effectively
destroyed the very idea of objectivity. Trump can lie constantly
only because white America has accepted an Orwellian sense of
truth — the truth pulled inside out.
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[move][size=18pt]BUT, THIS is America in the NEAR FUTURE:[/move]
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Re: Corporate Fascist Corruption of Christianity
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: December 2, 2016, 12:52 pm
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> They
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criticism.
>
> They complained that other people were creating and enforcing
speech codes, while at the same time attempting to enforce their
own speech codes.
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[center]Political correctness: how the right invented a phantom
enemy
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SNIPPET 1:
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> In truth, these crusaders against political correctness
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> As Jane Mayer documents in her book, Dark Money: the Hidden
History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical
Right, Bloom and D’Souza were funded by networks of conservative
donors – particularly the Koch, Olin and Scaife families – who
had spent the 1980s building programmes that they hoped would
create a new “counter-intelligentsia”.
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> Trump has also continued to cry PC in response to criticism.
When an interviewer from Politico asked a Trump transition team
member why Trump was appointing so many lobbyists and political
insiders, despite having pledged to “drain the swamp” of them,
the source said that “one of the most refreshing parts of … the
whole Trump style
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> Apparently it would have been politically correct to hold him
to his campaign promises.
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Re: Corporate Fascist Corruption of Christianity
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: December 16, 2016, 1:29 pm
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>
> Joshua Scheer:
> We're definitely going to want to talk about that. We're also
going to talk about Jeffrey Sterling who is another
whistleblower who is still in prison. I believe he is the, at
his time, was the fifth person used in history the Espionage Act
by President Obama. I want to talk about this intelligence
briefing because the president-elect said on Fox News this
Sunday, he's a pretty smart guy. We've discussed it in brief.
>
> I want to let our listeners know what this president
intelligence checklist was. It started with Kennedy in '61. It
was typewritten. It's stamped for president only. It has gone
through, obviously, technological innovation. Obama gets it on
an iPad, and Trump has kind of said, "I'll get it when anything
is new. It'll go through Mike Pence. It'll go through my
generals." He said, this is his quote, "If something should
change from this point, immediately call me. I'm available at
one-minute's notice, but eight years, I don't need that. If
something should change, let us know." Talk about this, because
I'm sure you've been involved in briefing the president and
certainly writing these reports.
>
> John Kiriakou:
> Sure.
>
>
> Joshua Scheer:
> How important are they? Some of the intelligence community,
one David Bass, I'm thinking, worked for the-
>
>
> John Kiriakou:
> Priess.
>
>
> Joshua Scheer:
> Beast, yes, worked for the State Department, worked for Bush
and Clinton as a CIA intelligence officer and talks about how
important it is to be informed, and that you're making these
decisions and you want to know all the information. Talk about
this a little bit, about the president-elect rejecting these
intelligence reports.
>
>
> John Kiriakou:
> Yeah, we've never had a president since Kennedy who just
outrightly rejected his intelligence briefings. Bill Clinton
famously was not briefed by his PDB briefer. PDB is President's
Daily Brief, but what the briefer would do is that he would go
to the White House every morning at 7 a.m. and drop it off, and
Clinton would read it at his leisure. He was only briefed in
person twice during his presidency, but Gore was briefed six
days a week. Clinton read the briefing later in the day, and so
he was informed.
>
> Now, each day's PDB is specifically tailored to the president
and to his interests, and so what Trump is reading right now, or
what Trump would be reading if he were being briefed is really
Obama's briefing. Obama has been steeped in these issues for
eight years. I can see how they might seem a little too
tactical, too detailed for Trump, but that's not just what Trump
said. He didn't say they were too detailed and too tactical. He
said he was a smart guy already and he didn't need to be
briefed. That's a mistake, unless he is going to just wholesale
turnover foreign and intelligence policy to Mike Pence. If Mike
Pence is going to be the de facto president on these issues,
then okay, I guess there is really no reason to brief Trump. If
Trump is going to still have the final word on foreign defense
and intelligence policy, I think this is a big mistake.
>
>
> Joshua Scheer:
> Yeah, go on on that a little bit. Obviously, Mike Pence, this
guy ... Trump is acting as if this is not even a job. This is
something where it's one of the many things he will be doing,
certainly has given Pence a lot of power, which is scary. Jeremy
Scahill has written about this de facto Christian fascist in
power. There has been others who have written about that. What
do you make of this? I mean, you've obviously followed politics
a long time. Certainly, we've talked about this earlier in the
interview, the CIA is probably scared about this, but is to be
expected both on ... Obviously, we all have other people on to
talk about, the EPA.
>
> We're talking about scared agencies. The EPA right now is ...
The Department of Energy, I'm sorry, is hiding people's names
who have worked on climate science. They're not codifying the
data they have gathered over a number of years to try to say
that US States like California saying they're going on alone on
immigration, on climate change. I mean, this is a really
tumultuous time for everybody. I mean, we talked about it a
little bit earlier, but I can't imagine that this is ... I mean,
this must be the most experience you've ever seen, right?
>
>
> John Kiriakou:
> Yeah, I've never seen anything like this, and I've been close
to several presidents from my CIA time. Even my wife was a
senior CIA officer and has been even closer in some cases to
presidents than have, and he's never seen anything like this
either. I had dinner with a great friend of mine on Saturday
night. He was my first boss at the CIA, and he goes back to the
Carter administration, and he was of the opinion that this is
utterly unprecedented. What makes is so dangerous is that this
is not a weak president giving a strong president the authority
to handle intelligence policy. This is a strongman who has
surrounded himself with generals who is giving a weak vice
president the authority to lead intelligence policy.
>
> He said, "It's a disaster waiting to happen," and he feared
that the only time the American people are going to understand
what a terrible mistake this is, is when we're the victims of a
terrorist attack on American soil, and people are going to want
to know why the president wasn't up on this, why the president
didn't order countermeasures, why the president dropped the
ball. I fear that's the direction we're going in.
>
>
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[center]Wilkerson: Trump's New National Security Advisor
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Col. Lawrence Wilkerson says General H.R. McMaster might be more
restrained about military action, but will support massive
budget increase to military and the imperial mission.
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Agelbert NOTE: I disagree with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson's belief
(and hope) that Trump doesn't actually want to use the military;
he does. As Trump's popularity declines, he will most likely try
to distract the people from his domestic fascist mayhem with
more war.
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[center]Empire Files: Chris Hedges & Abby Martin
-[color=maroon][b]Trump, Fascism & the
Christian
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Published on Feb 27, 2017
For the first time in modern history, a fringe wing of Christian
extremists have obtained the highest seats of power in the US
government—from Mike Pence to Betsy DeVos.
This new development is coupled with the emergence of the Alt
Right, the Trump movement, and the rise of fascist movements
abroad.
Renowned journalist and author Chris Hedges has embedded himself
in what he calls “Christianized Fascism” and warns that this is
the biggest danger we face under Trump.
[size=12pt][b]Agelbert NOTE: The Apostate Christian Church in
the USA is "Christian" in name only. If Pruitt and the other
crooks and liars on the Trump Team (along with Trump himself)
are Christians, Hitler was a saint. These Trump cretins give
Christianity a black eye!
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> 2 Timothy Chapter 3 King James Version (KJV)
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> 1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall
come.
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> 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous,
boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents,
unthankful, unholy,
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> 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers,
incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
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> 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than
lovers of God;
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> 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof:
[I]from such turn away.[/I]
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> George Frederick Baer (September 26, 1842 – April 26, 1914)
was an American lawyer who was the President of the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad and spokesman for the owners during the
Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902.
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[move]"These men don't suffer. Why, hell, half of them don't
even speak English!" George Frederick Baer[/move]
Published on May 4, 2017
[center]A bill to rob Americans of health care is barbaric and
intolerable[/center]
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The Shame and Cruelty of the GOP | The Resistance with Keith
Olbermann | GQ
Agelbert NOTE: Keith hopes George Frederick Baer is in a certain
place, which he hopes exists.
Well, I know it exists. Below, please find, a picture of Mr.
Baer in his present abode:
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[center]SCOTUS is Throwing Us into Jefferson's Nightmare
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June 27, 2017
Thom sits down with guest Reverend Barry W. Lynn (Executive
Director - Americans United for Separation of Church and State)
to talk about the recent Supreme Court decisions that reflect
the increasing politicization of religious organizations.
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