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       American people do not want a MIC supporting creature of Wall
       Street. I am the only 🕊️🗽 option.
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       Date: December 19, 2023, 6:42 pm
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       TRUTHDIG
       DEC 18, 2023 TD INTERVIEW
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       Green Party presidential candidate [glow=blue,2,300]Jill
       Stein[/glow]. (AP Photo/D. Ross Cameron, File)
       [center]‘The Way Things Are Going, 😈 Biden Is Going to
       [glow=red,2,300]🌠 Lose On His Own[/glow]’: An Interview
       With [glow=blue,2,300]Jill Stein[/glow]
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       [center]The [glow=blue,2,300]Green Party candidate[/glow] on
       democracy, climate change, Ukraine, why Democrats need to
       scapegoat left-wing “spoilers” and that night in Moscow the
       media can’t seem to forget.[/center]
       Let’s start with the current political mood and situation. Trump
       is leading his challengers and Biden in the polls. Democrats are
       nervous and looking anxiously to the courts. Meanwhile, a lot of
       usual suspects are issuing the perennial warnings about third
       party candidates. Dick Gephardt, after two decades working as a
       lobbyist, has popped up as the face of a new group, Citizens to
       Save Our Republic, that is buying ads across the country to
       caution voters against the siren songs of third-party campaigns
       — or they will help elect Trump. There are similar rumblings on
       the left, including in quarters that believe Democrats should
       win or lose on their own merits. What do you say to those who
       are otherwise receptive and sympathetic to the Green Party
       platform and critique, but also believe conditions demand a
       united front behind the Democrat, given the unique threat they
       believe a second Trump administration poses to the remaining
       institutions and norms of what passes for American democracy, as
       degraded as they may be?
       JILL STEIN: The way it’s going, Biden is going to lose on his
       own, even without third parties. The fact that we are being
       smeared and targeted reflects the Democrats’ vulnerability and
       failure to address their loss of support. It’s a fallacy that
       Greens and other progressive candidates take votes away from
       Democrats. Largely what we’re doing is bringing people out. In
       2016, we received 1.4 million votes, but seven million
       Democratic votes crossed over for Trump. The bigger problem was
       the 100 million voters who didn’t come out at all. Marginalized
       constituents, youth, the poor. That’s who the Democrats ought to
       be talking to. That’s who’s being left out here. The argument
       that we’re spoiling the election is extremely disingenuous as
       well as anti-democratic.
       TD: It’s also one that could be eliminated by rank-choice
       voting.
       JS: Yes, it could. But what do the Democrats do? They fight-rank
       choice voting tooth and nail.
       TD: Do you agree with the assessment that Trump represents a
       unique threat this time around? Does the lesser-of-two-evils
       argument carry more power than usual in 2024?
       JS: I think the Democrats also pose very serious threats to
       democracy, including throwing competition off the ballot. That’s
       pretty authoritarian right there. They have their own way of
       undermining the integrity of our elections. They hijack their
       own primaries. They don’t even make a pretense. Democrats are
       leading the charge in the attack on free speech, freedom of the
       press, the right to protest. Democratic administrations accuse
       environmental protesters of terrorism and threaten them with
       decades in jail. The Republicans don’t have a stranglehold on
       threats to our democracy. The Democrats are also leading us into
       very dangerous wars that could turn nuclear quickly. I don’t
       think that’s less of a threat to the survival of our democracy.
       TD: We’ll get to those wars in a minute. How do you assess the
       difference between the major parties on, say, climate and
       energy?
       JS: If you look behind the numbers, the high-ground claimed by
       the Democrats is dubious. Biden is proceeding full speed ahead
       with 22 Liquified Natural Gas export facilities. Just one of
       them, in Louisiana, represents something like 20 times more CO2
       than the Willow oil project in the Alaskan Arctic. The amount of
       carbon associated with these plants is off the charts. But those
       numbers are conveniently taken off the books so they don’t count
       in our country’s carbon footprint. If you include them, we have
       made zero progress since 2005. Nature doesn’t care about
       renewable energy if carbon is still being produced. That’s why
       we urgently need a Global Green New Deal.
       TD: You’ve talked about how a Global Green New Deal was the
       centerpiece of your trip to Moscow in December of 2015. Because
       that event still gets invoked in a superficial way, I’m curious
       about the backstory and politics of that trip, and especially
       the Russia Today dinner that your critics love to trot out as
       some kind of “gotcha” moment.
       The whole premise of the “Putin puppet” smear was always
       ludicrous, but they’re still using it, even after the Senate
       Intelligence Committee laid it to rest.
       JS: The visit to Moscow was part of a longer trip that included
       the Climate Summit in Paris, where I met with Jeremy Corbyn,
       China’s deputy lead negotiator on climate, and grassroots
       activists from around the world. Putin had just begun bombing
       Syria at the time, and my message to him was that they were
       following the disastrous U.S. approach to the Middle East. The
       day of the dinner, I delivered a speech at a conference in
       Moscow about the need for U.S.-Russia collaboration on climate
       change, ending the scourge of nuclear weapons and ending the war
       in the Middle East. I was putting out a peace proposal.
       TD: Sounds like standard two-track peace diplomacy.
       JS: Yes. My interest in this [type of diplomacy] began when I
       was a pre-med student in Boston. My adviser brought me to a
       meeting of International Physicians for the Prevention of
       Nuclear War and I was just fascinated by it. I met visiting
       Russian scientists and I thought it was amazing and powerful and
       wonderful. Ordinary people, using their expertise, working to
       overcome the danger and the threat of nuclear war. A little
       later, Physicians for Social Responsibility was awarded the
       Nobel Peace Prize for their work around nuclear arms treaties.
       That model was very much on my mind when I decided to go to
       Russia. Contact between everyday people can help push the
       envelope.
       TD: Together with the doctor and physicist groups, Mr. Rogers
       also went to Moscow during the Cold War. But you were branded a
       little differently.
       The accusation that I was a “Putin puppet” ramified all the way
       up to a Senate Intelligence Committee investigation. It went on
       for years, cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. What the
       Committee came up with was a big “Thank you so much for your
       full cooperation.” They concluded there was nothing untoward or
       inappropriate whatsoever. The whole thing was completely above
       board and transparent from the get-go. We announced what we
       would be doing, how we were paying for it, who we planned to
       meet with. Our objectives were to advocate for a nuclear-weapons
       ban and a Global Green New Deal. The whole premise of the “Putin
       puppet” smear was always ludicrous, but they’re still using it,
       even after the Senate Intelligence Committee laid it to rest.
       TD: Before we leave the subject, what was the chit chat like at
       the table? In pictures, everyone looks a little stiff and
       awkward.
       It was awkward because the only English speaker within earshot
       of me was Willy Wimmer, a Defense Ministry official in the
       German government at the time of German reunification, who later
       became vice president of the Organization for Security and
       Cooperation in Europe. Putin walked in with these three
       strapping muscular guys and sat down for maybe 10 or 15 minutes.
       There was zero contact. There were some really interesting
       people in the room, including Gorbachev, entirely on the peace
       side of the equation. When I saw Michael Flynn, who wasn’t yet
       associated with the Trump campaign, I wondered, “What’s this
       weird military guy doing here?” I gave him my elevator speech
       about peace and the climate, and he did not relate in the least.
       That conversation was over in 60 seconds. It wasn’t my ideal
       meal because I’m a vegetarian and don’t drink, so I just picked
       around the margins. But the entertainment was excellent. The
       Russian military chorus was amazing.
       TD: The Russian military chorus seems a good segue to the
       situation in Ukraine, which at the time of the dinner was still
       simmering. Going back further, the conflict arguably tracks to
       the first round of NATO expansion in 1998, around the time the
       Green Party began getting organized in the U.S.
       JS: Let’s go back farther. In 1991, The New York Times published
       leaks from the Pentagon, possibly intentional, that amounted to
       the first declaration of what’s now known as “full-spectrum
       dominance” — the idea that Washington will not allow any power
       to rise, even reasonably, to command the resources of any
       region, let alone become a global competitor. At that point, it
       was clear that we were going to ensure that Russia did not
       reestablish itself as a regional power. The rest is the logical
       derivative of that. The current conflict in Ukraine is very much
       the outflow of the position we adopted towards Russia at that
       time.
       TD:  How should the U.S. be pushing toward a diplomatic solution
       to the current war, and more generally de-escalating tensions
       with Russia so we can get arms control back on track?
       JS: There is a pretty good prototype in the Minsk Accords, with
       slight variations, that Russia agreed to. Leading up to war,
       Russia was not asking to annex, or even supporting, the eastern
       provinces that wanted to break away from Ukraine. Russia was
       resisting that. It’s just false to say that Russia had all these
       designs. The agreement Russia proposed was basically neutrality
       for Ukraine along an Austria model. It should have been a
       no-brainer. Russia again offered that agreement before it
       invaded, which was criminal and has been a humanitarian
       disaster. But we could have averted it. We could have prevented
       this whole war.
       More recently, there were widely reported negotiations [in
       Istanbul], confirmed by a high-ranking official in the Zelensky
       administration, by Gerhard Schroeder from Germany, and by
       Naftali Bennett of Israel. They have all said that Russia had
       basically signed on to this agreement that included no NATO
       admission for Ukraine and a future negotiation on Crimea. There
       was a really great deal that could have put an end to all of
       this. Instead, we have basically condemned an entire generation
       of Ukrainians to death and disability. It’s shameful that we
       have been purposefully thwarting a negotiation process. We have
       to get out of the way. It’s not just in Ukraine. According to
       the Congressional Research Service, we have intervened
       militarily 250 times in the past 30 years. This is what we do.
       This is who we are. We are acting like a unipolar power in a
       multipolar world and it is impoverishing us as a nation. It is
       also endangering all of us with the growing potential for
       nuclear confrontation on multiple fronts.
       TD: One of these fronts is the Middle East, where as you’ve
       noted, last month we sent an Ohio class nuclear submarine. What
       would a sound U.S. policy be vis a vis Israel and the occupied
       territories?
       JS: We need to use our influence to require everybody inside of
       Palestine as well as Israel to abide by international law. It’s
       not like we have to invent the solution. Barring the law of
       nations, what do we have?
       TD: Have you noticed younger volunteers approaching the party at
       the state level because of Washington’s ironclad support for
       Israel and opposition to global calls for a ceasefire?
       JS: Oh, absolutely. We are not in touch with what’s going on
       inside the books of the state Green parties — we’re required to
       be separate by law — but our campaign is the ultimate litmus
       test of that. It’s huge.
       TD: Let’s talk about Green party activists at the state and
       local level. I was struck by an interview you did with
       Pacifica’s Ann Garrison, in which you discussed your sense of
       obligation to the decades of work by local Green party
       volunteers to gain and maintain ballot access in dozens of
       states. How is your campaign related to the Green presidential
       campaigns going back to the first in 1996?
       JS: If you sit an election out, people will turn over, and you
       also won’t have the option of automatically qualifying if you
       reach the threshold in that state. You have to use [ballot
       lines] or you lose them.
       TD: Can you talk a little about the work that goes into gaining
       ballot access, and the obstacles that exist to deter third
       parties, many dating to the original Red Scare under Woodrow
       Wilson?
       JS: There are 50 different sets of rules in 50 states and it’s a
       moving minefield. We’re not meant to understand ballot access.
       You can spend huge amounts of money, and then make some simple
       little error, or not even make an error, and be tripped up by
       the design of the system. The reason Green candidates have to go
       to court so often is because they’ll try to catch us on
       technicalities and get us thrown off. Sometimes they succeed,
       because the courts are political. There is all kinds of
       administrative red tape, burdens and rules attached to the
       process to keep you off, arbitrary means of silencing democratic
       competition.
       TD: And in many cases the whole process has to be relearned and
       repeated every four years…
       JS: Unless you have achieved the percent of the vote required by
       the state for appearing on the [next] ballot, yes. It may be as
       low as 1%, or even half a percent, but it can also be
       substantially more. Offhand, I’d say the average is three to 5%.
       If you haven’t reached the threshold, you have to repeat the
       petition process. But you have to begin by collecting way more
       than the requirement. If people use a messy signature, or they
       leave out their middle initial, they will often use this as a
       reason to strike that signature. And the numbers change. In New
       York, Cuomo was pissed and threatened when the Greens did well
       in the gubernatorial race. So unbeknownst to the public, he
       snuck an increased requirement in some budget bill totally
       unrelated to ballots and elections. New York Democrats increased
       the requirement from 30,000 signatures to 45,000 in six weeks.
       This is really hard for volunteers.
       TD: And unlike astro-turf parties like, say, No Labels, the
       Greens rely on volunteers…
       JS: You need very deep pockets if you’re going to pay
       petitioners. The Green Party relies on volunteers who know the
       rules and the requirements for their state. They’re usually very
       good at watchdogging the requirements, and they know the
       [neighborhoods] with high validation rates and cultures of
       demanding democracy, of refusing to be thrown off the ballot.
       Still, this is probably the single most difficult hurdle in
       front of us. We do not currently have ballot access in New York,
       due to the outcome of the last election.
       TD: How many ballot lines met previous state thresholds?
       JS: We’re building up to 20 carryover states — no small feat. We
       have 80% of signatures for the remaining states. It’s highly
       likely that we are going to be on the ballot in just about every
       state.
       TD: Can you talk about the typical Green party canvasser and
       organizer? Would you described them as hard core lifelong
       democracy activists, or issue advocates who’ve been mugged by
       the Democratic party, or —
       JS: They tend to be grounded in social movements and community
       fights. Rent control, stopping evictions or a pipeline,
       protecting a water supply. Greens believe in political struggle,
       and you don’t need a party to fight between elections. Most of
       those of us who’ve moved into the political fight — and I count
       myself as one of those — spent lives fighting for substantive
       change. Health care as a human right. Closing down coal plants.
       Promoting renewable energy and clean air. We tend to be very
       pragmatic and practical. We know how you stop people with
       petitions in a nice and friendly way as they’re coming out of
       the store. What is your stop line? How do you start up a
       conversation?
       People who focus on issues [eventually] realize that you can
       only go so far as an advocate. Political allies have lots of
       ways of leading you around by the nose and then cutting you off.
       When the bill is about to be voted on, a clause is changed that
       throws away five years of hard work. At the end of the day, it
       becomes a political fight. No matter how much you want to avoid
       it, you have to challenge political power. I joined the Green
       Party because we were being betrayed right and left by &#128013;
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       TD: Is there a betrayal that sticks out from your years as an
       activist in your home state of Massachusetts?
       JS: We got money out of politics in Massachusetts. We passed
       Clean Elections, which required public funding of elections, and
       it was betrayed by Democrats on a voice vote. They repealed it
       after it passed a voter referendum two-to-one. That was the last
       straw for me. I decided this has to be a political battle. I was
       recruited to run for office having no idea what I was getting
       into. That’s true for lots of greens.
       In my first campaign, for governor of Massachusetts in 2002, we
       fought our way into a televised debate where I put forward
       health care as a human right, free public higher education,
       demilitarization, green jobs, et cetera. It went over like a
       lead balloon inside the debate studio. But when I walked out of
       the studio, I was mobbed by the press. An instant online viewer
       poll showed I won the night. That was the last time I was
       allowed into a televised debate.
       TD: Let’s talk about something in the Green platform that would
       be very difficult to address in a televised debate, even if you
       were given the opportunity. This is Section 5a of the Economic
       Justice and Sustainability section, which recognizes there is “a
       fundamental conflict between economic growth and environmental
       protection.” This is a significant break not only with
       bipartisan consensus, but with most of the U.S. left, which
       shares a paradigm focused on ever-increasing production and
       consumption as measured by gross domestic product, despite
       evidence that growth is an ecological poison pill that can never
       be “greened.” How do you even begin to have this conversation
       with normal people worried about making rent and putting food on
       the table?
       JS: This is a very challenging conversation. The limits of
       growth need to be addressed. It is not a case that we have to
       shut down growth immediately. But I would say that people get
       very attached to material comforts as a way to make up for
       communities and relationships. It’s why fixing our democracy and
       fixing [the planet] have to go forward together. We’re going to
       learn a lot in the next couple of years as the climate really
       hits the fan with drought, food supply, and especially, sea
       level rise. The Thwaites Glacier is losing its shelf, which acts
       as a break on two feet worth of sea level rise. It’s important
       that we be honest about what’s happening, so that we can make
       informed decisions as a society.
       The American people are asking for someone who’s not a creature
       of Wall Street and in the war machine. If you’re looking for
       that, we’re likely to be the only option.
       Most people don’t even know that we are at the precipice of some
       very staggering impacts. The Colorado River is about to shut
       down — whether it’s a year or five years — and that river
       supplies the water for California agriculture, which supplies
       half the fruits and vegetables for the country. And let’s be
       clear, the Democrats are creating a boondoggle for green
       industries that is not going to help the climate problem. You
       can say, well, it lays the groundwork for being able to pull
       back on fossil fuels, and that’s true. But we need to come clean
       and have an honest conversation about what’s actually going on
       right now. The Inflation Reduction Act is a fossil fuels first
       act. It’s a nuclear power act. That’s where we have to begin.
       And from there, things become possible. People do not trust the
       climate movement. They can smell a rat. And I don’t mean the
       grassroots climate movement, the frontline communities. I mean
       Bill Gates, the World Economic Forum, the high rolling,
       politically correct types with Teslas and private jets.
       TD: A lot of people focus on the Green party once every four
       years, only to excoriate it. But the party is active in local
       elections and the work is year-round. What goes on at the local
       and state levels when most people aren’t paying attention?
       JS: We’ve run thousands of candidates at the local level. I
       think we’ve elected 128 officials. There’s a fairly high rate of
       success for local Green candidates. They don’t get covered much,
       but they’re there. Mayors. State legislators. In Massachusetts,
       we have Greens chairing their municipal select boards, their
       library boards. We just elected an Afro-Latinx immigrant to the
       school committee in Holyoke, Massachusetts, which is a very poor
       community. We have local officials working on land-use planning,
       fighting for rent control — the whole spectrum of grassroots
       democracy at the community level. We work to expand these
       efforts [while] constantly fighting on a tilted playing field.
       We face smear campaigns and get locked out of the press. We are
       the guys that their COINTELPRO type programs have not been able
       to eliminate. Most independent third parties in this country
       don’t last 10 years. The Peace and Freedom Party is probably one
       of the most long-lasting, they were established sometime in the
       ’60s —
       TD: Eldridge Cleaver headed their first ticket in ’68, I think.
       JS: Right — and they grew from there into a national presence.
       At one point, they had access to ballots in 15 or 20 states. Now
       they live in one state: California. They’ve been beaten back.
       Around the same time the Greens were established, the brilliant
       labor activist Tony Mazaki, who was also an environmental health
       and occupational justice guy, established the Labor Party. They
       had money and an institutional base, but they folded because
       they could never get past the “spoiler” issue. So, they died.
       We’re all vilified for being spoilers. Even though the actual
       spoilers are the parties themselves who fail to really compete
       and fight for their base, which is why their base is walking
       away. That’s the problem, not progressives running for office.
       But that’s the way the public mythology goes. So, we’re vilified
       constantly in the press or locked out.
       TD: What’s changed between the first Green ticket in 1996 and
       2024?
       JS: What’s different is we’ve got a lot more unhappy campers.
       People are done being thrown under the bus. Half of renters are
       paying 30% or more for housing. In some places like New York
       City, the average rent is 68% of the average income. People are
       swamped in debt. We are in a political rebellion, and Greens are
       perfectly positioned right now to support this rebellion. I have
       found very few people, no matter where they are on the political
       spectrum, who have not had a complete loss of faith in our
       political institutions, in the parties of war and Wall Street.
       We’re in an incredible learning moment right now. For us to
       proceed with a really honest conversation has enormous potential
       to help us come together.
       TD: Last question. Do you have capsule opinions on your fellow
       “spoilers” in 2024?
       JS: I will just say that I greatly sympathize with the plight of
       people fighting within the Democratic Party, but it’s hard to
       have a revolution inside of a counter revolutionary party. For
       those trying to do this outside of the Democratic Party, it’s
       difficult to get on ballots, even if you have money. As for the
       Libertarian Party and No Labels, they take corporate money and
       may be able to buy their way onto ballots, but that’s not who
       the American people are asking for.
       The American people are asking for someone who’s not a creature
       of Wall Street and in the war machine. If you’re looking for
       that, we’re likely to be the only option. What compelled me to
       run was not only to ensure our ballot access would not go to
       waste, but also because it was highly likely the Green candidate
       would be the only pro-worker, anti-war, climate-action option.
       Either we were going to provide that, or it wasn’t going to be
       there. It was just unconscionable to me, to us, not to [provide]
       that at a time when the ship is going down. I know there are a
       lot of people who don’t understand why I’m running. But if you
       understand the life and death importance of fighting back
       against the [glow=maroon,2,300]existential crises[/glow] we
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       Does The West Truly Believe In Moral Superiority? They
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       AGelbert COMMENT:
       It's the [glow=maroon,2,300]Social Darwinism[/glow]!
       The ROOT cause of Oligarchic Tyranny, now Brazenly Accelerating
       the Human "civilization" Extinction Train, is the socially
       destructive ideology of SOCIAL DARWINISM:
       Social Darwinists believe that ethics based principles are
       'limitations pretending to be virtues'. To them, ethics are
       'feel good illusions' that humans invented to pretend our
       species has empathy. To Social Darwinists, empathy is
       irrefutable evidence of inexcusable weakness. To them, all who
       are guided by ethics are deluded fools that should be eliminated
       from the human 'apex predator' gene pool for the "good" of our
       species.
       Enthusiastic converts to Social Darwinism have, to this day,
       used the language of evolution to frame an understanding of the
       growing gulf between the rich and the poor, as well as the many
       differences between cultures all over the world. The explanation
       they arrived at, and continue to use to justify biosphere
       trashing profit over people and planet, regardless of any
       alligator tear filled mendacious claims to the contrary, is that
       businessmen and others who are economically and socially
       successful are so because they are biologically and socially
       “naturally” the fittest. Conversely, they reason that the poor
       are “naturally” weak and unfit and it would be an error to allow
       the weak of the species to continue to breed.
       The ideology of the Social Darwinist is indistinguishable from
       the despicable ideology of NAZI Germany, clearly exemplified in
       their brutally enforced morally bankrupt concentration camp law:
       “Eat your own bread, and if you can, that of your neighbor.” The
       "Apex Predators have a DARWINIAN RESPONSIBILITY to BE as
       PREDATORILY EVOLVED (SEE: Steal everything that is not nailed
       down.) as possible" WORLDVIEW is the socially destructive
       tsunami now engulfing human society.
       What all the entrenched insiders among the parasitic, predatory
       (i.e. Social Darwinist) elites and institutions don't dare admit
       publicly, though they celebrate that privately, is that to
       protect themselves from consequence, making the rest of us
       sacrifice everything else is what they-the-Apex-Predators have a
       DARWINIAN DUTY to DO.
       Frugality and prudence, once accepted by all human cultures as
       sine qua non, has given way to massive excess by TPTB (and too
       many of the, brainwashed by the "education system", non-rich
       populace) and a level of craziness in culture that ethical
       humans never imagined they would experience.
       Our species is on a track to extinction BECAUSE of TPTB's TOTAL
       embrace of the morally bankrupt SOCIAL DARWINIST IDEOLOGY.
       TPTB, blatantly self-serving, corrupt, unaccountable and devoid
       of any sense of good and evil, will be our doom if they are not
       stopped.
       It's NOT "the economy, stupid!" It's the
       [glow=maroon,2,300]Social Darwinism[/glow]
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       />stupid!
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       />&#128330;&#65039; CEASEFIRE IN GAZA NOW!
       #Post#: 1859--------------------------------------------------
       Cornel West on Capitalism, Ukraine, and his Presidential Run |
       The Chris Hedges Report
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: March 12, 2024, 10:43 am
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       [center][glow=blue,2,300]&#128367;&#65039;&#128509;&#129413;&#128330;&#65039;
       Cornel West [/glow]on [glow=red,2,300]Capitalism[/glow],
       Ukraine, and his Presidential Run | &#128367;&#65039; The Chris
       Hedges Report[/center]
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       />953K subscribers 12K 440,936 views  Premiered Jun 16, 2023 
       The
       Real News Network Podcasts
       Dr. Cornel West is running for president. In a wide-ranging
       conversation on The Chris Hedges Report, West lays out a
       political vision centering "the least of these." Rejecting the
       corporate duopoly and its two wings—a neofascist Republican
       party, and the neoliberal Democrats—West calls for a multiracial
       alliance of poor and working people against militarism,
       corporatism, racism, and all other forms of bigotry and
       oppression.
       Editor's Note: Since the time this interview was recorded, Dr.
       Cornel West has announced his intention to seek the Green Party
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       &#129421; Fighting Russia &amp; China to Last American:
       Destroying US From &#128181;&#127913;&#128520;&#127820; Within
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: May 17, 2024, 12:55 pm
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       [center]Fighting Russia & China to Last American: Destroying US
       From &#128181;&#127913;&#128520;&#127820;
       [glow=red,2,300]Within[/glow][/center]
       [center][glow=blue,2,300]Dr. Jill Stein[/glow]
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       />& [glow=blue,2,300]Michael Hudson[/glow]
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       Dialogue Works 134K subscribers May 17, 2024  Interviews
       2024
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       />Presidential Candidate:
       [glow=blue,2,300]&#128367;&#65039;&#128509;&#128330;&#65039; Dr.
       Jill Stein[/glow] -
       I'm running for president with the Green Party to offer a choice
       for the people outside the failed two-party system. We'll put a
       pro-worker, anti-war, climate action agenda front and center in
       this election and on the ballot in November.
       jillstein2024.com
       &#128367;&#65039;&#128509; Michael Hudson is President of The
       Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a
       Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor
       of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He is
       the author of Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of
       American Empire (Editions 1968, 2003, 2021), ‘and forgive them
       their debts’ (2018), J is for Junk Economics (2017), Killing the
       Host (2015), The Bubble and Beyond (2012), Trade, Development
       and Foreign Debt (1992 & 2009) and of The Myth of Aid (1971),
       amongst many others.
       ISLET engages in research regarding domestic and international
       finance, national income and balance-sheet accounting with
       regard to real estate. We also engage in the economic history of
       the ancient Near East.
       Michael acts as an economic advisor to governments worldwide
       including China, Iceland and Latvia on finance and tax law. He
       gives presentations on various topics at conferences and
       meetings and can be booked here. Listen to some of his many
       radio interviews to hear his hyperspeed analysis of the
       geo-political machinations of global economics. Travel costs and
       a per diem are appreciated.
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       &quot;Rather than trying to tell people how to live, we should
       make it possible for people to be ABLE to live!
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: May 18, 2024, 1:59 pm
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       &#128073; Graphics and emojies by AGelbert. &#128072;
       The American Conservative
       May 17, 2024 By Bradley Devlin
       [center][glow=blue,2,300]Inside Dennis Kucinich’s Political
       Comeback[/glow][/center]
       [center]The firebrand former presidential candidate is back on
       the scene. TAC sat down with him.[/center]
       SNIPPET:
       For &#128367;&#65039;&#128509;&#129413;&#128330;&#65039;
       Kucinich
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       />the modern presidency is proof positive that
       [glow=red,2,300]
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       />institutional forces[/glow] have, for the meantime,
       overwhelmed
       Article II of the Constitution.
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       “The unspoken question: Is there such a thing as a
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       />[glow=red,2,300]deep state[/glow]&#10067;” Kucinich said.
       “Of course!” Kucinich continued. “You see in [glow=red,2,300]the
       Pentagon, in the upper echelons of State, and the various think
       tanks[/glow], they try to assume a position of a
       &#128181;&#127913;
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       />[glow=red,2,300]permanent government[/glow]. Donald Trump’s
       problem was that his lack of experience in government left him
       totally vulnerable to being attacked by these interests without
       even knowing it was happening. There’s a price you pay for not
       actually knowing how Washington works. It takes a while to
       understand how Washington works.”
       Full Truth Filled lengthy article:
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       &#128367;&#65039; MAX Blumenthal: &#128013; Israeli &#128520;
       Meddling in US Politics
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: June 27, 2024, 5:29 pm
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       [center]&#128367;&#65039; MAX Blumenthal: &#128013;
       [glow=red,2,300]Israeli[/glow] &#128520; Meddling in US
       Politics[/center]
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       Judge Napolitano - &#128367;&#65039; Judging &#128509; Freedom
       397K subscribers June 27, 2024
       MAX Blumenthal : Israeli Meddling in US Politics.
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       &#128226; &quot;The solution to ‘the Israel lobby’ is for the US
       to stop funding Israel.&quot;  
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: June 28, 2024, 4:44 pm
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       COUNTERPUNCH
       &#128073; Most graphics and emojies by AGelbert. &#128072;
       JUNE 27, 2024 BY ROB URIE
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       [move]The
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       />‘Israel Lobby’ Works for the
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       />[glow=maroon,2,300]US[/glow]
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       />[glow=red,2,300]Military &#127913;
       Industrial
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       SNIPPETS:
       The fact that neither Joe Biden nor his brain trust has picked
       up a telephone to speak with Vladimir Putin in 2 ½ years of war
       with Russia suggests that Mr. Putin and Russia might be better
       served by negotiating an end to hostilities directly with
       &#129421; Lockheed Martin and &#129421; Northrop Grumman.
       [glow=red,2,300]Biden[/glow] is failing, corrupt, and he
       launched a war of choice against Russia that the &#129421; US is
       losing. He is currently leading a WWII style genocide in Gaza.
       Impressively, being allied with self-described Nazis in Ukraine
       while leading a racist genocide in Gaza represents the political
       program of both  American liberals and the radical Right in
       2024.
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       None of this is intended in an electoral frame.
       [glow=red,2,300]Donald Trump[/glow] has demonstrated himself to
       be a
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       />‘toll booth’ [glow=red,2,300]Zionist[/glow], having agreed to
       support Jerusalem as the capital of Israel after receiving $20
       million in campaign contributions from Israeli-American
       Zionists. Now in line to receive another $100 million
       contribution from [glow=red,2,300]&#128013; Miriam Adelson, wife
       of the late &#128013; Sheldon Adelson[/glow], Mr. Trump recently
       supported a bill to further fund US wars in Ukraine and Israel,
       assuring its passage. There is little difference between the
       major party candidates regarding Israel’s genocide, likely
       because the [glow=maroon,2,300]American MIC[/glow] is laundering
       its Federal subsidies through [glow=red,2,300]Israel[/glow]. ...
       ...
       With [glow=red,2,300]Zionist[/glow] settlers in the West Bank
       now once again ‘clearing’ Palestinians by seizing their land and
       exiling them, the plan of Israel being revealed is the total
       extermination of the Palestinian people. Here
       [glow=red,2,300]the Wannsee Conference[/glow] has bearing. It
       was the meeting of [glow=red,2,300]top Nazis in 1942 [/glow]to
       plan the systematic extermination (‘final solution’) of European
       Jews as WWII was underway, illustrating that the most hateful
       acts in human history have come in the form of
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       />powerful political actors calmly planning the extermination of
       entire peoples. With [glow=red,2,300]Israel[/glow] now
       exterminating the Palestinian people, history has come full
       circle. The persecuted are now the persecutors. That the
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       />[glow=maroon,2,300]US[/glow] is
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       />funding and arming [glow=maroon,2,300]the effort[/glow] makes
       it
       [glow=maroon,2,300]the ultimate state actor [/glow]in this
       process of
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       />genocide.
       Full article:
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       #Post#: 2146--------------------------------------------------
       &#128681; &quot;But and if that evil servant shall say in his
       heart, My lord delayeth his coming; ...&quot; 
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: July 5, 2024, 1:36 pm
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       Year 1800:
       --- Quote ---
       > "The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all
       history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be
       ruled by a small elite." -- Thomas Jefferson
       --- End Quote ---
       July 19 to July 21, 1944:
       Democratic Party Convention Party Boss thwarts Henry Wallace
       from VP Candidate position in order to position Harry Truman for
       VP by yelling, "FIRE!" at the Convention.
       From April 12, 1945 (Death of FDR when Truman became POTUS) to
       September 10, 2001:
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       />
       [glow=red,2,300]September 11, 2001[/glow] to
       [glow=red,2,300]PRESENT[/glow]:
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       [move]"Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh
       shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you, That he shall make
       him ruler over all his goods. But and if that evil servant shall
       say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; And shall begin
       to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the
       drunken; The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he
       looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, And
       shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the
       hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." --
       Matthew 24:46-51 [/move]
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       [move]"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets,
       and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I
       have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her
       chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house
       is left unto you [glow=red,2,300]desolate[/glow]. For I say unto
       you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed
       is he that cometh in the name of the Lord." --  Matthew
       23:37-39[/move]
       #Post#: 2171--------------------------------------------------
       &#128562;&#128226; Trump Survives Assassination Attempt&#10071; 
   DIR By: AGelbert
       Date: July 13, 2024, 9:11 pm
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       July 13, 2024 by Associated Press
       [center]
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       />Whisked Off Stage After Apparent Gunshots at Rally — Suspect
       and
       attendee are [color=red]dead; Trump "fine"[/center]
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       />Donald Trump appeared to be the target of an assassination
       attempt as he spoke during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on
       Saturday, law enforcement officials said. The former president,
       his ear covered in blood, was quickly pulled away by Secret
       Service agents and his campaign said he was "fine," the AP
       reported.
       The attack, by a shooter who law enforcement officials say was
       then killed by the Secret Service, was the first attempt to
       assassinate a president or presidential candidate since Ronald
       Reagan was shot in 1981. It comes amid a deeply polarized
       political atmosphere, just four months from the presidential
       elections and days before Trump is to be officially named the
       Republican nominee at his party's convention.
       A local prosecutor said the suspected gunman and at least one
       attendee are dead.
       "President Trump thanks law enforcement and first responders for
       their quick action during this heinous act," spokesman Steven
       Cheung said in a statement. "He is fine and is being checked out
       at a local medical facility. More details will follow."
       The Secret Service said in a statement that "the former
       president is safe."
       Two officials spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity to
       discuss the ongoing investigation. They said the shooter was not
       an attendee at the rally and was killed by U.S. Secret Service
       agents.
       The officials said the shooter was engaged by members of the
       U.S. Secret Service counterassault team and killed. The heavily
       armed tactical team travels everywhere with the president and
       major party nominees and is meant to confront any active threats
       while other agents focus on safeguarding and evacuating the
       person at the center of protection.
       It's still not clear yet whether Trump was struck by gunfire or
       was injured as he was pulled to the ground by agents.
       Butler County district attorney Richard Goldinger said in a
       phone interview that the suspected gunman was dead and at least
       one rally attendee was killed.
       Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, was showing off a
       chart of border crossing numbers during his last rally before
       the Republican National Convention opens Monday when the
       apparent shots began.
       It took two minutes from the moment of the first shot for Trump
       to be placed in a waiting SUV.
       As Trump was talking, a popping sound was heard, and the former
       president put his right hand up to his right ear, as people in
       the stands behind him appeared to be shocked.
       As the first pop rang out, Trump said, "Oh," and grabbed his ear
       as two more pops could be heard and he crouched down. More shots
       are heard then.
       Someone could be heard saying near the microphone at Trump's
       lectern, "Get down, get down, get down, get down!" as agents
       tackled the former president. They piled atop him to shield him
       with their bodies, as is their training protocol, as other
       agents took up positions on stage to search for the threat.
       Screams were heard in the crowd of several thousand people. A
       woman is heard screaming louder than the rest. Afterward, voices
       were heard saying "shooter's down" several times, before someone
       asks "are we good to move?" and "are we clear?" Then, someone
       ordered, "Let's move."
       Trump could be heard on the video saying at least twice, "Let me
       get my shoes, let me get my shoes," with another voice heard
       saying, "I've got you sir."
       Trump got to his feet moments later and could be seen reaching
       with his right hand toward his face. There appeared to be blood
       on his face. He then pumped his fist in the air and appeared to
       mouth the word "Fight" twice to his crowd of supporters,
       prompting loud cheers and then chants of "USA. USA. USA."
       The crowd cheered as he got back up and pumped his fist.
       His motorcade left the venue moments later. Video showed Trump
       turning back to the crowd and raising a fist right before he is
       put into a vehicle.
       Police began vacating the fairgrounds shortly after Trump left
       the stage in what local officers described as a crime scene.
       The perils of campaigning took on a new urgency after the
       assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in California in 1968, and
       again in 1972 when Arthur Bremer shot and seriously hurt George
       Wallace, who was running as an independent on a campaign
       platform that has sometimes been compared to Trump's. That led
       to increased protection of candidates, even as the threats
       persisted, notably against Jesse Jackson in 1988 and Barack
       Obama in 2008.
       Presidents, particularly after the assassination of John F.
       Kennedy in 1963, have even greater layers of security. Trump is
       a rarity as both a former president and a current candidate.
       President Biden said in a statement that he had been briefed on
       the shooting and said he was grateful that the former president
       "is safe and doing well. I'm praying for him and his family and
       for all those who were at the rally, as we await further
       information."
       "Jill and I are grateful to the Secret Service for getting him
       to safety," Biden said. "There's no place for this kind of
       violence in America. We must unite as one nation to condemn it."
       After the shooting at Trump's rally, the Biden campaign was
       pausing all messaging to supporters and is working to pull down
       all of its television ads as quickly as possible, the campaign
       said.
       Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., posted a photo on X of
       Trump, his fist raised and his face bloody in front of an
       American flag, with the words: "He'll never stop fighting to
       Save America."
       North Dakota governor Doug Burgum (R), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)
       and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), the three men on Trump's shortlist
       for vice president, all quickly sent out statements expressing
       concern for the former president, with Rubio sharing an image
       taken as Trump was escorted off stage with his fist in the air
       and a streak of blood on his face along with the words "God
       protected President Trump."
       Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, said in a statement
       on X that he had been briefed on the situation and Pennsylvania
       state police were on hand at the rally site.
       "Violence targeted at any political party or political leader is
       absolutely unacceptable. It has no place in Pennsylvania or the
       United States," he said.
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       />Because Trump had turned his head just before the shot,
       something that CANNOT be scripted in advance, this appears to be
       a genuine assassination attempt, not a show to jack his polls
       up. At any rate, Trump's polls are going to jump at least ten
       points now, so he probably is now pretty much GUARANTEED to take
       back the White House with a win in the November (s)election.
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       That said, IF the shooter turns out to be a PALESTINIAN, or even
       a non-jewish (of course) lefty American critic of Israel's
       GENOCIDE in Gaza, I will smell a VERY BIG
       [glow=red,2,300]NETANYAHU[/glow]
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       />[glow=red,2,300]&#128000; RAT[/glow] (i.e.
       [glow=red,2,300]Mossad False Flag
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       />attack[/glow] for the purpose of demonizing Arabs in general,
       and Palestinians in particular.). Now that
       [glow=red,2,300]Netanyahu's pack of cruel murdering NAZI IDF
       bastards[/glow] have been exposed
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       />for their "Hannibal" murderous rampage on July 7, 2023 (that
       killed MOST of the Israelis that died that day, while Israeli
       Government LIARS blamed Hamas FALSELY and REPEATEDLY, for
       MONTHS, for most of the deaths AND sexual violence that NEVER
       HAPPENED!), they need another
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       />BIG LIE to keep most Americans from seeing through their
       Morally
       Bankrupt "policy" of [glow=rmaroon,2,300]methodically
       murdering[/glow] Palestinian men, women AND &#128561; CHILDREN
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       />steal their land.
       The question to be asked is NOT whether or not this
       assassination attempt was that of a "lone nut" or some
       "disgruntled" or "Deranged" person.
       The QUESTION to be asked is [glow=red,2,300]Cui Bono[/glow]?
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       &#128226; SPECIAL: Judge / Johnson / McGovern : Assassination
       Attempt of Donald Trump
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       Date: July 15, 2024, 4:48 pm
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       />SPECIAL: &#128367;&#65039; Judge / &#128367;&#65039; Johnson /
       &#128367;&#65039; McGovern: [glow=red,2,300]Assassination
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       Judge Napolitano - &#128367;&#65039; Judging &#128509; Freedom
       408K subscribers JulyStreamed live 5 hours ago  #TrumpNews
       #DonaldTrump #LarryJohnson
       Join Judge Nap Larry Johnson, & Ray McGovern for an in-depth
       analysis as we examine the attempted assassination of Donald
       Trump.
       Judge interrupts his Italy vacation to bring this discussion to
       the channel.  This is a MUST WATCH
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       />edition of #JudgingFreedom
       Ray McGovern agrees with [color=purple]me
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       mono][glow=red,2,300]Cui Bono[/glow]?
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       > @stevejagger8602 4 hours ago
       > Thank you Judge.
       > I am with Ray McGovern on this - who benefits??
       >
       > @Cochise85 4 hours ago
       > Ray is 100% correct: Qui Bono? The Entire Democratic Party,
       not to mention the MSM and Big Tech
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       July 15, 2024
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