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Beyond Brett Kavanaugh's Crimes & Cover Ups
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: September 17, 2019, 3:54 pm
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Thom Hartmann Program
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The sensationalist coverage around Brett Kavanaugh only
scratches the surface of Brett Kavanaugh's crimes and cover ups.
Many of which go all the way back to the George W. Bush
administration.
Can we reopen the investigation into Brett Kavanuagh?
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Re: Creeping Police State
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Date: September 18, 2019, 10:44 am
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> Despite being the taxpayers’ greatest investment — more than
$700 billion a year — the Department of Defense has remained an
organizational black box throughout its history. It’s repelled
generations of official inquiries, the latest being an audit
three decades in the making, mainly by scrambling its accounting
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> “Over and over again, we’ve been told we cannot afford to
guarantee health care as a right, make public colleges
tuition-free, or seriously address any of the needs of the
working class,” Sanders says. “When it comes to the massive
waste, fraud and abuse at the Pentagon, there’s a deafening
silence.”
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TPTB 👹🦖 know Senator Sanders ✨ is a
greater threat to them than ever before.
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URLINGTON — Vermont State Police bomb squad and Burlington
Police responded to a report of a suspicious package at Sen.
Bernie Sanders’ office Thursday.
Sanders’ Church Street office and the building it is in was
evacuated, BPD deputy chief Jon Murad said.
“Out of an abundance of caution we evacuated his offices and the
building as we assess it,” Murad said.
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Burlington Police received a call about the package, which came
in the mail, from Sanders staff at 11:42 a.m.
Murad said at 4:15 p.m. that law enforcement was continuing to
assess the package.
Murad said there were no plans to close Church Street as police
deal with the situation.
Another suspicious package was delivered to Sanders’ St.
Johnsbury office earlier this month, prompting a response from
police, firefighters and state hazmat crews.
St. Johnsbury’s fire chief said an electronics company had sent
the empty box so the senator’s staff could return something.
This story will be updated
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Agelbert NOTE: TPTB know Senator Sanders is a greater threat to
them than ever before. Expect more of this, which will never be
admitted as such publicly, state sponsored intimidation and
terrorism. >:(
I hope they do not succeed in their despicable campaign to
intimidate Sanders.
Back in 2016 TPTB tried ignoring him, then mocking him. That did
not work. Sanders would have won the Democratic nomination and
the presidency in 2016. That's why 😈 Hillary Clinton, a
card carrying representative of TPTB, had to rig the primaries
against Sanders.
2020 Presidential Candidate Sanders, though no media outlet or
"official poll" will admit it, is America's favorite Candidate
for POTUS. So now the jackals are being brought in. >:(
If a 'suspicious package' had been delivered to Moscow Mitch's
offices, this would be all over the news. For Sanders, a
champion of we-the-people and the last hope we have for JUSTICE
in the
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Will Money or People Rule Our Country?
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 3, 2019, 8:50 pm
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Will money or the people Rule our country, Thom answers a call
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Re: Creeping Police State
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 8, 2019, 10:02 pm
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[center]Is 🦀 Donald Trump Radicalizing The
Police?[/center]
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Is Donald Trump radicalizing the police into his very own
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How Does America Handle a 🦀 Lawless President? 😨
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Date: October 9, 2019, 10:34 pm
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President Andrew Jackson defied the Supreme Court and now Trump
is defying Congress, the impeachment inquiry and the will of the
American People.
Could Trump live up to Andrew Jackson's legacy and be our next
Lawless President
How Does America Handle a Lawless President?
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Re: Creeping Police State
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 10, 2019, 11:38 am
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October 10, 2019
The Trump administration is undermining our nation from
immigration to the environment, while his tweets and impeachment
distract us. Add it all up, says our guest, we can see how he
threatens what remains of U.S. democracy.
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MARC STEINER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Marc
Steiner. Good to have you all with us.
The wars around impeachment are escalating. Trump has refused to
allow State Department and other federal employees to testify in
congressional committees. Just today, the headlines blared that
he and his administration will not cooperate because all
Democrats want to do is to overturn the 2016 election. The
public is slowly turning against him. But is our democracy in
danger? While all this is happening, as our guest writes, he is
restructuring our country, instituting Draconian measures
against immigrants, opening our lands and waters to oil
exploration, aggressively trying to end a woman’s right to
choose, and that’s just the beginning, all the while impeachment
is capturing the headlines. And then there are his tweets. The
ravings of a mad man or something more sinister? How do you
resist, build a political movement with impeachment hiding the
fundamental changes Trump and his minions are wreaking on our
nation and our future?
We are joined by Sasha Abramsky, who is a Journalist and Author,
Creator of the Abramsky Report, Writer for The Nation, whose
article I read yesterday, in part inspired this conversation. It
was called “As We Focus on Impeachment, Trump Is Restructuring
the Country.” His latest book is Jumping at the Shadows: The
Triumph of Fear and the End of the American Dream. And Sasha,
welcome. Good to have you with us.
SASHA ABRAMSKY: Marc, good to be on the show.
MARC STEINER: Buddy, it’s good to talk to you. So let’s just
begin with the latest we’ve seen with Trump and his headlines
about not cooperating with the investigations and saying his
people won’t have to cooperate because this is a witch hunt. I
remember, I lived through Nixon in 1972, and that impeachment
process, also what happened in Clinton’s impeachment process, or
most of us did if we were around. And there was this absolute
defiance, saying that, “I can do whatever I want to.” I mean,
you write a bit about that, and you’ve tweeted a lot about that.
Let’s start there. I mean, what this portends, what the
potential dangers are we’re facing here.
SASHA ABRAMSKY: Well, the dangers are immense. And it’s a
mistake to think they just started now with the impeachment
hearing. Trump’s been president for nearly three years. And
throughout that three-year period, he’s made it absolutely clear
and his Justice Department has made it absolutely clear that by
their ruling philosophy, the law does not apply to the
president. They say it time and again, that the president cannot
be convicted of crimes, that the president is in many ways above
the law, and that the president can essentially disregard
inconvenient constitutional truths if it suits him, without
consequence. And what you’re seeing is the gradual building of a
legal doctrine which essentially gives the president imperial
powers.
Now, that’s deeply disturbing. It doesn’t matter if the
president is an extremely philosophical, deep thinker, which
Trump most certainly is not, any president, if they claim for
themselves unlimited imperial powers, is going down a path
toward tyranny, dictatorship, imperial governance, whatever you
want to call it. When Trump does it, what he’s essentially doing
is putting in an American context the Nazi Führerprinzip, this
idea that the state and the individual who rules at that moment
in time are absolutely overlapped, that there just is no
difference between the will or the whim of the leader and the
power and the authority of the state. And to me, when I look at
what’s happening around impeachment, when I look at the flagrant
disregard of constitutional process, of congressional authority,
and so on, this is Trump laying out a roadmap to imperial
governance. And what I tweeted yesterday is we’re now at a
crossroads. And as far as I’m concerned, either Trump’s
presidency survives, or constitutional government survives. But
I don’t see how the two of them go hand in hand anymore.
MARC STEINER: I read that tweet before we went on the air, when
I was looking at your Twitter feed. And for just a couple
minutes, let’s wrestle with that for a second. I mean, when you
look at history, we think that it can’t happen here. And when
you look at the history of our own country, the United States,
that we’re broadcasting from, when you look at any kind of
Western democracy, and when you look at any nation on the
planet, it can change. And it does change on a dime. You
mentioned Hitler, 1932, with a small minority of the votes, 32%
of the votes, he became the ruler and the fuhrer. I mean, these
things can happen. And I always look at this like, when I think
about 1877 and Rutherford B. Hayes becoming president of the
United States with a minority of the vote but was able to
destroy Reconstruction and start 90 years of terror against
black people in the South of the United States. And we think
that can’t happen again. Maybe not those exact things, but we
need to stop and think about what history tells us about the
moment we’re facing right now.
SASHA ABRAMSKY: Yeah. I mean, history never repeats itself
exactly. And I’ve been writing a lot for the last three, four
years now about the menace that I think that Trump represents.
And it’s not necessarily because I don’t like him as an
individual, though I think he’s both a buffoon and also a
sadist, but it’s because he pushes policies again and again and
again that are designed to instill fear and designed to instill
terror in ever larger groups of the population, whether it’s
immigrants, whether it’s refugees, whether it’s asylum seekers,
whether it’s women whose rights are being constricted, or gay
Americans whose rights are being constricted. Whenever you look
at Trump’s policies, there’s a bullying, intimidating,
increasingly violent undertone, and in some cases overtone, to
Trump’s methodology.
And he goes before these huge and enthusiastic crowds and gins
up violence against journalists, against political opponents,
against anybody who dares to stand up and critique him. And he
uses the presidential podium, which is the single most highly
visible platform on Earth, to attack individuals, to go after
private citizens, to denigrate people, to humiliate people. And
when you have a governance like that, it seems to me that it
becomes quite easy to ram through attacks on constitutional
governments. But in a very real way, our constitutional system
of checks and balances work when everybody agrees to abide by
the rules. And when one player in that system essentially says,
“Look, I’m walking away from the rules. What are you going to do
about it,” which is what Trump’s been doing, that’s when you
have an absolute threat to the survival of democratic
governance.
And that’s what we saw in Germany in the 1930s, or Mussolini’s
Italy. It’s what we saw in the juntas of Latin America more
recently in the 1970s and 80s. It’s the kind of strong-arm
governance that we see in Russia today, or in Turkey, where a
nationalist demagogue takes power, and they might not
necessarily officially destroy the democratic structures, but
they neutralize them, they bypass them, they appeal to the mob.
They essentially say, “We no longer agree to abide by the rules
of the game.” And to me, that’s [inaudible 00:07:17] thought.
This idea that the world’s most powerful country, but also the
country that, for 80 years, has acted as something of a
stabilizing influence in global affairs, the idea that this
country is going down a rogue route, that it’s got an
unpredictable, unstable, violent president who, in fits of rage
or of pique, can change public policy on a dime, I think that’s
a huge, huge risk to our future that we’re now staring down.
MARC STEINER: And so that brings me to the point of your article
that you published in The Nation yesterday online, that while we
focus on impeachment, Trump is restructuring the country, is
what you wrote. It was the title of your article. So let’s talk
a bit about that. I mean, because it goes to the heart of what
you were just saying and all the things that he is fostering at
the moment and pushing, from the public charge rules, which many
people don’t know about, and other issues like that, how it’s
tied to the Muslim ban. I mean, just talk a bit about what we’re
not seeing as we’re watching the impeachment, and how that fits
in.
SASHA ABRAMSKY: The first couple years of Trump’s government, it
was somewhat comforting to think, “Well, he’s got horrible
views, but he’s surrounded by incompetence and he’s actually not
getting very much done.” The last year or so of the government,
we’ve seen a tremendous amount being done in a very destructive
way. So take immigration, for example. He’s using regulatory
changes to entirely restructure 50 years of immigration policy.
So whether it’s the regulation that now says, “If you’re an
immigrant and you use any form of public assistance, whether
it’s housing or nutritional or health assistance, it will
subject you to deportation,” or his newest rule, which says, “If
you can’t afford private health insurance, you’re not going to
get a visa to come into the country in the first place,” or his
attack on the asylum process, which says that anybody who
transits through Mexico en route north to claim asylum is no
longer eligible for asylum in this country, these aren’t
regulatory tweaks. These are absolutely fundamental
restructurings of the immigration process. And they’re done with
no congressional input. They’re done with no serious legal
input. They’re basically being done by executive fiat.
And you get a sense of the tone of Trump’s politics at the
moment. Two things particularly strike me. First is there was a
report last week that said that in March, Trump got together his
top security and border officials, and he said, one, “Why can’t
we shoot immigrants in the legs to slow them down as they’re
heading North?” Two, “Why can’t we build a wall with entailing
spikes on the top so that these families will be entailed if
they climb the wall?” And three, if that doesn’t work, “Why
can’t we build a moat along the border and fill it with
alligators to attack immigrants?” Now, this isn’t the stuff of
normal politics. This is the fantasy of a Charles Manson
character, or a Vlad the Impaler character. And you see this
backed up by increasingly erratic tweets. Just the other day,
Trump put out this tweet that, in any other time in our history,
would have signaled the end of a presidency. He put out a tweet
that said, “In my great and unmatched wisdom,” that’s a quote,
“In my great and unmatched wisdom, I will totally destroy and
obliterate the economy of Turkey if they do what I don’t want in
Syria.” Imagine that. Imagine the most powerful human being on
quoting the Wizard of Oz.
MARC STEINER: That’s not funny, but yes, right, right.
SASHA ABRAMSKY: Right there, you have the duplicity of our
moment. You have this sort of character who is something of a
hybrid between Charlie Chaplin’s Great Dictator, this sort of
caricature of what a dictator should look like, The Wizard of
Oz, this creature who sort of promises all these grandiose
things but actually has nothing, and then Charles Manson,
somebody who fetishizes violence and sadism, and somehow has
created a cult of personality around him so that a huge number
of other people will glom on to these entirely maniacal visions.
And this man has access to the world’s largest nuclear arsenal.
He could press a button and destroy the lives of billions of
people in an instant. To me, it’s just unfathomable that
somebody of this low caliber should have the power of life and
death over the globe. But that’s the moment we’re in.
MARC STEINER: So that is the moment we’re in. So the question I
have to close this very quickly is, so when you look at what’s
going on with our impeachment process now, and we see all the
people coming out who are coming out against Trump in those
impeachment hearings that have agreed to testify, and the battle
around that, you see what’s happening with the impeachment, but
then you see all this stuff going on under the radar for most
people, and also this real danger that we face that we’re not
paying attention to, that becomes a political question. It
becomes a question of how you organize against it. It becomes a
question about how you organize for the future in a positive
way, because of what we face. And that’s what I, when I was
asking my earlier historical question, what I was alluding to in
terms of the real fundamental dangers that we face, and how you
respond to it.
SASHA ABRAMSKY: Absolutely. Because, look, this isn’t all about
whether or not Trump broke some laws when it comes to the
Ukraine phone call. Much more fundamentally, this is about what
Trump’s doing to the country in terms of environmental policy,
with this catastrophic war on the environment that he’s waging,
his rolling back of climate change initiatives, his rolling back
of fuel efficiency standards. It’s to do with women’s rights and
the stacking of the courts with ever more conservative judges
who, by all accounts, are going to just eviscerate the right to
an abortion, various other very important fundamental rights.
It’s to do with the rollback of regulations around workplace
safety. It’s to do with rollbacks of regulations on banks and
exploitative lending practices with payday lending companies.
And all of these things that, when you have a government stocked
by plutocrats, when you have a cabinet of multimillionaires and
billionaires, when you have a president who doesn’t have an
empathic bone in his body, really, really bad things happen to
the social fabric. You see this attempt, this obsessive attempt
to roll back the Affordable Care Act. Well, if the Trump
administration succeeds and gets the Supreme Court somehow to
declare the entire Affordable Care Act unconstitutional, which
they’re trying to do, tens of millions of Americans are either
going to lose their access to healthcare or have to pay a whole
bunch more to maintain their access. So these things have
consequences.
And even if you got rid of Donald Trump tomorrow, even if Trump
resigned tomorrow, or was somehow forced out of office by a
senatorial revolt, we’d still be dealing with the Trumpian
legacy for decades, because so many policies are being
implemented that put us in a really bad place, a bad place
pragmatically, a bad place morally, a bad place in terms of our
global alliances, or lack of alliances, and a bad place in terms
of the kinds of opportunities that we’re going to have for
subsequent generations. Because if you put in place policies
that favor the rich and hurt everybody else, if you put in place
tax policies that redistribute wealth up the economic ladder, if
you make it even harder for people at the bottom of the economic
ladder to succeed, to gain education, to gain jobs that pay
living wages, if you do all of these things, you’re locking into
place and inegalitarian, hierarchical system of governance, a
method of organizing society, that’s going to be with us for
decades.
So you’re absolutely right that this isn’t just the story about
whether we impeach Trump because of what he said with the
president of Ukraine. This is a conversation about what Trump is
doing to the fabric of our community, what he’s doing to this
country, and what policies he’s unraveling that are going to
take years and years and years to fix. This is going to be a
healing process. If we find that we wake up tomorrow and Trump
is no longer the president, we are going to be recovering and
trying to heal from the Trumpian years, I suspect for many, many
decades. It’s going to be the single greatest challenge of the
next many cycles of American politics.
MARC STEINER: And that’s what our next generation faces, and we
have to stand with them to make sure this is a better place, not
a worse place. And Sasha Abramsky, thank you so much for your
time with us today. I deeply appreciate it. And I look forward
to seeing what you write next and getting you to join us again
soon.
SASHA ABRAMSKY: Be happy to. Thanks again, Marc.
MARC STEINER: Thank you so much. And I’m Marc Steiner here for
The Real News Network. Thank you all for joining us. Please go
to our website, let us know what you think. Take care.
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Money Over Democracy: 😈 Trump Sold Out Our Allies &
The American People!
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Is Donald Trump's Only Principal Money?
It is pretty clear that Donald Trump is not working for the
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Chris Hedges "Fascism in the Age of Trump"
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Journalist, author and war correspondent Chris Hedges spoke at
The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY on November 10,
2017 on fascism and empire in the age of Trump.
www.mediasanctuary.org
Chris Hedges is the best-selling author of War is a Force That
Gives Us Meaning (2003), a finalist for the National Book
Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. A quote from the book was
used as the opening title quotation in the critically-acclaimed
and Academy Award-winning 2009 film, The Hurt Locker. The quote
reads: "The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal
addiction, for war is a drug."
Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on Truthdig, has
written twelve books, including the New York Times bestseller
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012), which he co-authored
with the cartoonist Joe Sacco. Some of his other books include
Unspeakable (2016), Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative to
Revolt (2015), Death of the Liberal Class (2010), Empire of
Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
(2009), I Don’t Believe in Atheists (2008) and the best selling
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
(2008). In 2011, Nation Books published a collection of Hedges’
Truthdig columns called The World As It Is: Dispatches on the
Myth of Human Progress.
Hedges previously spent nearly two decades as a foreign
correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and
the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and
has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public
Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, for which
he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years.
Hedges was part of the team of reporters at The New York Times
awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for the paper’s coverage of
global terrorism. He also received the Amnesty International
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Hedges is a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York
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Are We Turning Into a Police State?
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