http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/jeff-sessions-protester-charged-laughing
Below is a post on facebook right now, which sums up exactly why Jeff Sessions is one of the most dangerous men in the world. This is not a thin-skinned, soft-handed rich boy, petulantly texting in wee hours about his hurt feelings. This is a man who is directly prosecuting and jailing citizens of this country for exercising one of our most basic rights: to laugh at our elected officials and disrupt leaders and proceedings that are immoral, unethical, and unconstitutional.
Brock Turner served 3 months in jail for raping a woman.
Desiree Fairooz is facing a year in prison for laughing at a man.
https://www.facebook.com/ninalkffmn/posts/10209896106059092
That we live in a country where someone like Brock Turner is coddled by the Justice System for raping a women, is an even greater insult to this most serious injury.
Please, express your outrage by calling the Justice Department and your representatives, but join PAG2STL in sending Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III a personal note letting him know that whenever he speaks, you are also laughing, and disrupting his proceedings. Assure him that when he- and hopefully the entire administration of 45- is removed from office, you will be laughing very hard.
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
Desiree Farouz: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/04/desiree-fairooz-laughing-jeff-sessions-confirmation-hearing
Youtube video of the hearing:
https://youtu.be/L8qvwMUCzio
PS- I'm looking for something that would make a good card. So far this image:
http://juanitajean.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Granny-Sessions.jpg
EDIT: OH- and this:
https://www.facebook.com/BEeN.The.Cain/posts/305817336506479
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Thursday, May 4, 2017
DON'T WAIT FOR ELECTIONS TO TELL THE HOUSE HOW YOU FEEL
If our government is determined to "Make America Sick Again" be sure to repay the favor. Yes, vote these people out of office, but even if you don't live in their district, call them! What these people did effects every single American.
Let them hear your suffering. To quote Zora Neale Hurston: "If you are silent about your pain, they will kill you and say you enjoyed it."
Also, it is time to go on the offense! We need Universal Health Care. Even the ACA is not enough!
http://pag2stl.blogspot.com/2017/01/its-time-to-go-on-offense.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/04/us/politics/house-vote-republican-health-care-bill.html
No Democrat voted Yes.
Republicans
Let them hear your suffering. To quote Zora Neale Hurston: "If you are silent about your pain, they will kill you and say you enjoyed it."
Also, it is time to go on the offense! We need Universal Health Care. Even the ACA is not enough!
http://pag2stl.blogspot.com/2017/01/its-time-to-go-on-offense.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/04/us/politics/house-vote-republican-health-care-bill.html
No Democrat voted Yes.
Republicans
Yes | No | ||
---|---|---|---|
Total | 217 | 20 | |
AZ-5 | Andy Biggs |
N
|
|
CO-6 | Mike Coffman |
N
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FL-27 | Ileana Ros-Lehtinen |
N
|
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KY-4 | Thomas Massie |
N
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NC-3 | Walter B. Jones |
N
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NJ-2 | Frank A. LoBiondo |
N
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NJ-4 | Christopher H. Smith |
N
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|
NJ-7 | Leonard Lance |
N
|
|
NY-11 | Dan Donovan |
N
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|
NY-24 | John Katko |
N
|
|
OH-10 | Michael R. Turner |
N
|
|
OH-14 | David Joyce |
N
|
|
PA-6 | Ryan A. Costello |
N
|
|
PA-7 | Patrick Meehan |
N
|
|
PA-8 | Brian Fitzpatrick |
N
|
|
PA-15 | Charlie Dent |
N
|
|
TX-23 | Will Hurd |
N
|
|
VA-10 | Barbara Comstock |
N
|
|
WA-3 | Jaime Herrera Beutler |
N
|
|
WA-8 | Dave Reichert |
N
|
|
AK-1 | Don Young |
Y
|
|
AL-1 | Bradley Byrne |
Y
|
|
AL-2 | Martha Roby |
Y
|
|
AL-3 | Mike D. Rogers |
Y
|
|
AL-4 | Robert B. Aderholt |
Y
|
|
AL-5 | Mo Brooks |
Y
|
|
AL-6 | Gary Palmer |
Y
|
|
AR-1 | Rick Crawford |
Y
|
|
AR-2 | French Hill |
Y
|
|
AR-3 | Steve Womack |
Y
|
|
AR-4 | Bruce Westerman |
Y
|
|
AZ-2 | Martha E. McSally |
Y
|
|
AZ-4 | Paul Gosar |
Y
|
|
AZ-6 | David Schweikert |
Y
|
|
AZ-8 | Trent Franks |
Y
|
|
CA-1 | Doug LaMalfa |
Y
|
|
CA-4 | Tom McClintock |
Y
|
|
CA-8 | Paul Cook |
Y
|
|
CA-10 | Jeff Denham |
Y
|
|
CA-21 | David Valadao |
Y
|
|
CA-22 | Devin Nunes |
Y
|
|
CA-23 | Kevin McCarthy |
Y
|
|
CA-25 | Steve Knight |
Y
|
|
CA-39 | Ed Royce |
Y
|
|
CA-42 | Ken Calvert |
Y
|
|
CA-45 | Mimi Walters |
Y
|
|
CA-48 | Dana Rohrabacher |
Y
|
|
CA-49 | Darrell Issa |
Y
|
|
CA-50 | Duncan Hunter |
Y
|
|
CO-3 | Scott Tipton |
Y
|
|
CO-4 | Ken Buck |
Y
|
|
CO-5 | Doug Lamborn |
Y
|
|
FL-1 | Matt Gaetz |
Y
|
|
FL-2 | Neal Dunn |
Y
|
|
FL-3 | Ted Yoho |
Y
|
|
FL-4 | John Rutherford |
Y
|
|
FL-6 | Ron DeSantis |
Y
|
|
FL-8 | Bill Posey |
Y
|
|
FL-11 | Daniel Webster |
Y
|
|
FL-12 | Gus Bilirakis |
Y
|
|
FL-15 | Dennis A. Ross |
Y
|
|
FL-16 | Vern Buchanan |
Y
|
|
FL-17 | Tom Rooney |
Y
|
|
FL-18 | Brian Mast |
Y
|
|
FL-19 | Francis Rooney |
Y
|
|
FL-25 | Mario Diaz-Balart |
Y
|
|
FL-26 | Carlos Curbelo |
Y
|
|
GA-1 | Earl L. “Buddy” Carter |
Y
|
|
GA-3 | Drew Ferguson |
Y
|
|
GA-7 | Rob Woodall |
Y
|
|
GA-8 | Austin Scott |
Y
|
|
GA-9 | Doug Collins |
Y
|
|
GA-10 | Jody B. Hice |
Y
|
|
GA-11 | Barry Loudermilk |
Y
|
|
GA-12 | Rick W. Allen |
Y
|
|
GA-14 | Tom Graves |
Y
|
|
IA-1 | Rod Blum |
Y
|
|
IA-3 | David Young |
Y
|
|
IA-4 | Steve King |
Y
|
|
ID-1 | Raúl R. Labrador |
Y
|
|
ID-2 | Mike Simpson |
Y
|
|
IL-6 | Peter Roskam |
Y
|
|
IL-12 | Mike Bost |
Y
|
|
IL-13 | Rodney Davis |
Y
|
|
IL-14 | Randy Hultgren |
Y
|
|
IL-15 | John Shimkus |
Y
|
|
IL-16 | Adam Kinzinger |
Y
|
|
IL-18 | Darin M. LaHood |
Y
|
|
IN-2 | Jackie Walorski |
Y
|
|
IN-3 | Jim Banks |
Y
|
|
IN-4 | Todd Rokita |
Y
|
|
IN-5 | Susan W. Brooks |
Y
|
|
IN-6 | Luke Messer |
Y
|
|
IN-8 | Larry Bucshon |
Y
|
|
IN-9 | Trey Hollingsworth |
Y
|
|
KS-1 | Roger Marshall |
Y
|
|
KS-2 | Lynn Jenkins |
Y
|
|
KS-3 | Kevin Yoder |
Y
|
|
KS-4 | Ron Estes |
Y
|
|
KY-1 | James Comer |
Y
|
|
KY-2 | Brett Guthrie |
Y
|
|
KY-5 | Harold Rogers |
Y
|
|
KY-6 | Andy Barr |
Y
|
|
LA-1 | Steve Scalise |
Y
|
|
LA-3 | Clay Higgins |
Y
|
|
LA-4 | Mike Johnson |
Y
|
|
LA-5 | Ralph Abraham |
Y
|
|
LA-6 | Garret Graves |
Y
|
|
MD-1 | Andy Harris |
Y
|
|
ME-2 | Bruce Poliquin |
Y
|
|
MI-1 | Jack Bergman |
Y
|
|
MI-2 | Bill Huizenga |
Y
|
|
MI-3 | Justin Amash |
Y
|
|
MI-4 | John Moolenaar |
Y
|
|
MI-6 | Fred Upton |
Y
|
|
MI-7 | Tim Walberg |
Y
|
|
MI-8 | Mike Bishop |
Y
|
|
MI-10 | Paul Mitchell |
Y
|
|
MI-11 | Dave Trott |
Y
|
|
MN-2 | Jason Lewis |
Y
|
|
MN-3 | Erik Paulsen |
Y
|
|
MN-6 | Tom Emmer |
Y
|
|
MO-2 | Ann Wagner |
Y
|
|
MO-3 | Blaine Luetkemeyer |
Y
|
|
MO-4 | Vicky Hartzler |
Y
|
|
MO-6 | Sam Graves |
Y
|
|
MO-7 | Billy Long |
Y
|
|
MO-8 | Jason Smith |
Y
|
|
MS-1 | Trent Kelly |
Y
|
|
MS-3 | Gregg Harper |
Y
|
|
MS-4 | Steven M. Palazzo |
Y
|
|
NC-2 | George Holding |
Y
|
|
NC-5 | Virginia Foxx |
Y
|
|
NC-6 | Mark Walker |
Y
|
|
NC-7 | David Rouzer |
Y
|
|
NC-8 | Richard Hudson |
Y
|
|
NC-9 | Robert Pittenger |
Y
|
|
NC-10 | Patrick T. McHenry |
Y
|
|
NC-11 | Mark Meadows |
Y
|
|
NC-13 | Ted Budd |
Y
|
|
ND-1 | Kevin Cramer |
Y
|
|
NE-1 | Jeff Fortenberry |
Y
|
|
NE-2 | Don Bacon |
Y
|
|
NE-3 | Adrian Smith |
Y
|
|
NJ-3 | Tom MacArthur |
Y
|
|
NJ-11 | Rodney Frelinghuysen |
Y
|
|
NM-2 | Steve Pearce |
Y
|
|
NV-2 | Mark Amodei |
Y
|
|
NY-1 | Lee Zeldin |
Y
|
|
NY-2 | Peter T. King |
Y
|
|
NY-19 | John J. Faso |
Y
|
|
NY-21 | Elise Stefanik |
Y
|
|
NY-22 | Claudia Tenney |
Y
|
|
NY-23 | Tom Reed |
Y
|
|
NY-27 | Chris Collins |
Y
|
|
OH-1 | Steve Chabot |
Y
|
|
OH-2 | Brad Wenstrup |
Y
|
|
OH-4 | Jim Jordan |
Y
|
|
OH-5 | Bob Latta |
Y
|
|
OH-6 | Bill Johnson |
Y
|
|
OH-7 | Bob Gibbs |
Y
|
|
OH-8 | Warren Davidson |
Y
|
|
OH-12 | Pat Tiberi |
Y
|
|
OH-15 | Steve Stivers |
Y
|
|
OH-16 | James B. Renacci |
Y
|
|
OK-1 | Jim Bridenstine |
Y
|
|
OK-2 | Markwayne Mullin |
Y
|
|
OK-3 | Frank D. Lucas |
Y
|
|
OK-4 | Tom Cole |
Y
|
|
OK-5 | Steve Russell |
Y
|
|
OR-2 | Greg Walden |
Y
|
|
PA-3 | Mike Kelly |
Y
|
|
PA-4 | Scott Perry |
Y
|
|
PA-5 | Glenn Thompson |
Y
|
|
PA-9 | Bill Shuster |
Y
|
|
PA-10 | Tom Marino |
Y
|
|
PA-11 | Lou Barletta |
Y
|
|
PA-12 | Keith Rothfus |
Y
|
|
PA-16 | Lloyd K. Smucker |
Y
|
|
PA-18 | Tim Murphy |
Y
|
|
SC-1 | Mark Sanford |
Y
|
|
SC-2 | Joe Wilson |
Y
|
|
SC-3 | Jeff Duncan |
Y
|
|
SC-4 | Trey Gowdy |
Y
|
|
SC-7 | Tom Rice |
Y
|
|
SD-1 | Kristi Noem |
Y
|
|
TN-1 | Phil Roe |
Y
|
|
TN-2 | John J. Duncan Jr. |
Y
|
|
TN-3 | Chuck Fleischmann |
Y
|
|
TN-4 | Scott DesJarlais |
Y
|
|
TN-6 | Diane Black |
Y
|
|
TN-7 | Marsha Blackburn |
Y
|
|
TN-8 | David Kustoff |
Y
|
|
TX-1 | Louie Gohmert |
Y
|
|
TX-2 | Ted Poe |
Y
|
|
TX-3 | Sam Johnson |
Y
|
|
TX-4 | John Ratcliffe |
Y
|
|
TX-5 | Jeb Hensarling |
Y
|
|
TX-6 | Joe L. Barton |
Y
|
|
TX-7 | John Culberson |
Y
|
|
TX-8 | Kevin Brady |
Y
|
|
TX-10 | Michael McCaul |
Y
|
|
TX-11 | K. Michael Conaway |
Y
|
|
TX-12 | Kay Granger |
Y
|
|
TX-13 | Mac Thornberry |
Y
|
|
TX-14 | Randy Weber |
Y
|
|
TX-17 | Bill Flores |
Y
|
|
TX-19 | Jodey Arrington |
Y
|
|
TX-21 | Lamar Smith |
Y
|
|
TX-22 | Pete Olson |
Y
|
|
TX-24 | Kenny Marchant |
Y
|
|
TX-25 | Roger Williams |
Y
|
|
TX-26 | Michael C. Burgess |
Y
|
|
TX-27 | Blake Farenthold |
Y
|
|
TX-31 | John Carter |
Y
|
|
TX-32 | Pete Sessions |
Y
|
|
TX-36 | Brian Babin |
Y
|
|
UT-1 | Rob Bishop |
Y
|
|
UT-2 | Chris Stewart |
Y
|
|
UT-3 | Jason Chaffetz |
Y
|
|
UT-4 | Mia Love |
Y
|
|
VA-1 | Rob Wittman |
Y
|
|
VA-2 | Scott Taylor |
Y
|
|
VA-5 | Tom Garrett |
Y
|
|
VA-6 | Robert W. Goodlatte |
Y
|
|
VA-7 | Dave Brat |
Y
|
|
VA-9 | Morgan Griffith |
Y
|
|
WA-5 | Cathy McMorris Rodgers |
Y
|
|
WI-1 | Paul D. Ryan |
Y
|
|
WI-5 | Jim Sensenbrenner |
Y
|
|
WI-6 | Glenn Grothman |
Y
|
|
WI-7 | Sean P. Duffy |
Y
|
|
WI-8 | Mike Gallagher |
Y
|
|
WV-1 | David B. McKinley |
Y
|
|
WV-2 | Alex X. Mooney |
Y
|
|
WV-3 | Evan H. Jenkins |
Y
|
|
WY-1 | Liz Cheney |
Y
|
|
WA-4 | Dan Newhouse |
Friday, April 28, 2017
YOU OWE IVANKA TRUMP THIRTEEN DOLLARS A YEAR
You and every single man, woman, and child in the USA.
The population of the USA is 318 million.
Not all citizens pay taxes.
The Trump's tax break is equal to $12.57 from every single person in this country. Every single one of us has to pay $12.57
For the Koch's each of us has to pay $135.22
And the Walton's? We pay $166.66 each.
For just these three families that is $314.45. Each.
Now, realistically, about 240 million people pay federal income taxes. Taxpayers, that is $416 more per year. Each. A full time worker making $10 an hour would lose over a week of pay. FOR JUST THREE OBSCENELY WEALTHY FAMILIES.
Of course, a $10 an hour worker ($20,800 per year) won't lose as much as someone that makes $60,000 a year, or $100,000 a year. It will be the middle classes that lose the most.
And those illegal immigrants that never file for their income tax returns won't be here, either. And wages might go down- to remain competitive and get those Ivanka Trump manufacturing jobs we will have to be competitive with that whopping $62 for a 60 hour work week she pays in China.
How is this okay with you #maga #Trump people? Is this what you signed up for?
The population of the USA is 318 million.
Not all citizens pay taxes.
The Trump's tax break is equal to $12.57 from every single person in this country. Every single one of us has to pay $12.57
For the Koch's each of us has to pay $135.22
And the Walton's? We pay $166.66 each.
For just these three families that is $314.45. Each.
Now, realistically, about 240 million people pay federal income taxes. Taxpayers, that is $416 more per year. Each. A full time worker making $10 an hour would lose over a week of pay. FOR JUST THREE OBSCENELY WEALTHY FAMILIES.
Of course, a $10 an hour worker ($20,800 per year) won't lose as much as someone that makes $60,000 a year, or $100,000 a year. It will be the middle classes that lose the most.
And those illegal immigrants that never file for their income tax returns won't be here, either. And wages might go down- to remain competitive and get those Ivanka Trump manufacturing jobs we will have to be competitive with that whopping $62 for a 60 hour work week she pays in China.
How is this okay with you #maga #Trump people? Is this what you signed up for?
Friday, April 14, 2017
WAKE UP USA, PART 2: MAYBE TRUMP DIDN'T ORDER THE BOMB, BUT EITHER WAY, GET READY FOR WW3
EDIT: Trump didn't order the MOAB. As I said, the previously hidden underbelly of the Trump regime coup d'etat is emerging. The Pentagon is free to do what it does best: make war. Again, are you ready for WW3? https://www.yahoo.com/news/officials-no-trumps-approval-massive-bomb-152907219--politics.html
Nothing is "normal" right now, and therefore We The People have to really consider all the angles:
My first instinct when Trump bombed Syria was that he had decided to not re-pay the Russian mob and/or back out of his alliance with Putin. If the former scenario is correct, then Trump is so determined not to pay his debts that he will become President and start wars to escape the leg-breakers. Putin probably is the head of the Russian mob, so the latter scenario is likely correct, too.
Trump doesn't need the Russians anymore. Trump is aligning with China. And China and Russia don't appear to be very cozy. I really haven't looked into this enough, but it feels right and fits what I already know. Yes, the oil deal with Rofsnet is important, but it is much more urgent to the Russians than the US.
Bombing Syria and getting nasty with Russia could also be a giant distraction. This seems to be the most widely held theory right now. Trump probably has assurances that the collusion will be contained to his campaign staff. Even if his entire staff ends up in prison for treason, they won't be able to touch him. (Plus the "prayer-wall" of GOP staffers like McConnell and Ryan surrounding Trump. And the faction of the coup d'etat we keep forgetting about: the DoD contractors, and mercenaries like Erik Prince. More on that in a second.)
http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/04/13/7-allies-just-came-forward-trump-russia-smoking-gun-evidence/ (Note that Australia is on the list. Australia is part of 5 Eyes, which means they were watching the Russians. The U.K. is also a 5 Eyes country. Intelligence either of these countries formally introduces will have to originate with surveillance of the Russians. 5 Eyes- USA, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand - have an agreement to share intelligence and not spy on each other. Estonia and Germany, etc, could introduce intelligence that originated with the US or with Russia.)
I think my initial instinct was right. Trump is breaking up with the Russians. He's gonna show 'em who is boss, and then (try to) make nice again. In the process Trump will hand Syria to the Russians, so they will probably kiss and make up. And a little war is good for all Trump's kleptocrat friends globally, including Putin and himself. Trump is already raking in the dough from his dictatorship, so why not make a little more with a war?
And if Syria worked so well to distract, to threaten, and to make Trump seem "presidential", how much better Afghanistan and the "Mother of all bombs"?
And Afghanistan has rare earth metals. (And poppies, yes. Drugs have always been the real money behind all wars.) Isis and Osama bin Laden are a pretext for dominating this country:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-war-is-worth-waging-afghanistan-s-vast-reserves-of-minerals-and-natural-gas/19769
Here's the thing though, about Afghanistan and the bomb, I don't think Trump gave the okay. Part of the brilliant strategy behind the successful Trump coup d'etat/dictatorship is that the revolution happened (is happening still) and it is almost invisible. See, the revolution isn't the Left. It isn't ragtag hippie freaks. It is the rabid ICE agents, the 'roid rage racist cops, the white nationalists and the churches that want their own police force. And truly sociopathic killers that found a home in the military, or DoD contractors' private security forces, or mercenary groups like Erik Prince's Blackwater.
The war mongers have figured out that they can launch whatever missile they want, tell Trump, and he will ramble on about what he was having for dessert, and name drop the world leader he was with at Mar Lago. (And Sean Spicer can be counted on to create another diversion at the press conference.)
And while there is no accountability to the public in the Trump regime, there wasn't much accountability before Trump came to power. Because Ferguson happened and then nothing happened...except the cops got more military equipment, and grants, and a whole lot of court fees.
When I say "nothing happened" I don't mean from the point of view of We The People. (Ferguson mattered a lot.) I mean to people like Darren Wilson. In fact, Wilson was rewarded! To the current revolution/ coup d'etat/ dictatorship, Ferguson was a sign their would be few repercussion and that real change would be a decade or more away.
McCulloch put on his kangaroo court, and the DOJ came and audited and made suggestions. But there wasn't any real threat to the Darren Wilson's of the world. (Two days ago we have two cops beating up a guy for "being black while jaywalking".) To these murderous racist sociopaths, Wilson's outcome was a permission slip to take it further.
And then this racist, pussy grabbing, grifter born with a gold spoon in his mouth comes along. Trump lied and broke every rule in the book, and yet he was elected! And after 12 expensive, ridiculous weeks he is still running the WH!
And the Tea Baggers, alt-Right, Conservative Evangelicals- as long as Trump keeps passing their stone age laws and legislation- they are going to keep his clown show running. It's effective and distracting. Even if they aren't personally abusing their positions of power- or shooting unarmed black men, or handcuffing five year old children- they are part of the "USA white might is right" revolution. They are part of the coup d'etat.
Because even though the revolutionaries are minority, with numbers smaller than the LGBT community, or African Americans, they figured out that they have all the guns and they have all the money. And the system is so corrupt and overloaded it is comatose. And the "good" people in power don't have much leverage, and aren't willing to play dirty.
So a few things about World War 3. There is no precedent in human history for the times we live in- the population, and in countries like our, the dependence on electricity, technology, and our separation from natural resources.
First of all, there were 1 billion people on the planet during WW1. In world war two the population was a little over 2 billion. In 1968 the world population was half of what it is now. A world war with 7 billion people on the planet, even if it doesn't go nuclear, is going to create a domino effect of serious disasters. The good news is we will all have jobs as gravediggers, or more likely, in crematoriums.
Now let's consider that in developed countries we are dependent on electricity and technology for almost everything we actually need to survive. Grocery stores only have a 3 day supply of food on any given day. Most of our food is trucked from long distances, and requires refrigeration. We can't go to the Mississippi with buckets to get water. We can't call each other or go on the internet if we don't have electricity or if the servers go down for any reason.
And then there is the nature of the war we will be fighting. Soldiers are incidental to a time when drones and missiles can be used to devastate entire urban areas, even whole states and regions. It won't matter how many guns you have, the people pushing the buttons will be so far removed from you it won't matter. There will be no POW's, no acts of mercy. (I think of the Terminator movies, where the machines were programmed to continue the war so far into the future there were no living humans controlling the machines.)
It is worth it to prepare for the World War 3 scenario. Do what you can. Begin stocking up on provisions (canned food, water, batteries, back up generator, candles) and setting up local communication networks that don't need electricity or internet or cell phones (ham radios, local meet-up places like libraries and churches, neighborhood networks). Try to keep your gas tank full.
We need to do more than march and make phone calls and attend meetings to stop this. The coup and its army aren't taking us seriously. They want a violent response. From us, from other countries. Trump's regime can't survive without violence and war. And I don't think violence will work.
We The People need to go on a mass general strike and shut down at least 40% of this countries day to day economic business. Collectively. To remind all the people in power that AREN'T in the Trump regime that We The People are the lifeblood of this country. You can't arrest people that are gathered in homes and churches and community centers calling their representatives.
Yes, some people will lose their jobs and there will still be problems. But if we can't band together and take real risks to stop this Orange Nightmare, we face a much worse problem, and soon.
So keep calling, keep organizing, keep fighting. (And right now, it almost doesn't matter what you fight for or against, only that keep bugging our so-called leaders.) But maybe stock up too, and prepare for world war 3. Because it might already be to late.
Also see: http://pag2stl.blogspot.com/2016/12/usa-please-wake-up.html
Nothing is "normal" right now, and therefore We The People have to really consider all the angles:
My first instinct when Trump bombed Syria was that he had decided to not re-pay the Russian mob and/or back out of his alliance with Putin. If the former scenario is correct, then Trump is so determined not to pay his debts that he will become President and start wars to escape the leg-breakers. Putin probably is the head of the Russian mob, so the latter scenario is likely correct, too.
Trump doesn't need the Russians anymore. Trump is aligning with China. And China and Russia don't appear to be very cozy. I really haven't looked into this enough, but it feels right and fits what I already know. Yes, the oil deal with Rofsnet is important, but it is much more urgent to the Russians than the US.
Bombing Syria and getting nasty with Russia could also be a giant distraction. This seems to be the most widely held theory right now. Trump probably has assurances that the collusion will be contained to his campaign staff. Even if his entire staff ends up in prison for treason, they won't be able to touch him. (Plus the "prayer-wall" of GOP staffers like McConnell and Ryan surrounding Trump. And the faction of the coup d'etat we keep forgetting about: the DoD contractors, and mercenaries like Erik Prince. More on that in a second.)
http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/04/13/7-allies-just-came-forward-trump-russia-smoking-gun-evidence/ (Note that Australia is on the list. Australia is part of 5 Eyes, which means they were watching the Russians. The U.K. is also a 5 Eyes country. Intelligence either of these countries formally introduces will have to originate with surveillance of the Russians. 5 Eyes- USA, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand - have an agreement to share intelligence and not spy on each other. Estonia and Germany, etc, could introduce intelligence that originated with the US or with Russia.)
I think my initial instinct was right. Trump is breaking up with the Russians. He's gonna show 'em who is boss, and then (try to) make nice again. In the process Trump will hand Syria to the Russians, so they will probably kiss and make up. And a little war is good for all Trump's kleptocrat friends globally, including Putin and himself. Trump is already raking in the dough from his dictatorship, so why not make a little more with a war?
And if Syria worked so well to distract, to threaten, and to make Trump seem "presidential", how much better Afghanistan and the "Mother of all bombs"?
And Afghanistan has rare earth metals. (And poppies, yes. Drugs have always been the real money behind all wars.) Isis and Osama bin Laden are a pretext for dominating this country:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-war-is-worth-waging-afghanistan-s-vast-reserves-of-minerals-and-natural-gas/19769
Here's the thing though, about Afghanistan and the bomb, I don't think Trump gave the okay. Part of the brilliant strategy behind the successful Trump coup d'etat/dictatorship is that the revolution happened (is happening still) and it is almost invisible. See, the revolution isn't the Left. It isn't ragtag hippie freaks. It is the rabid ICE agents, the 'roid rage racist cops, the white nationalists and the churches that want their own police force. And truly sociopathic killers that found a home in the military, or DoD contractors' private security forces, or mercenary groups like Erik Prince's Blackwater.
The war mongers have figured out that they can launch whatever missile they want, tell Trump, and he will ramble on about what he was having for dessert, and name drop the world leader he was with at Mar Lago. (And Sean Spicer can be counted on to create another diversion at the press conference.)
And while there is no accountability to the public in the Trump regime, there wasn't much accountability before Trump came to power. Because Ferguson happened and then nothing happened...except the cops got more military equipment, and grants, and a whole lot of court fees.
When I say "nothing happened" I don't mean from the point of view of We The People. (Ferguson mattered a lot.) I mean to people like Darren Wilson. In fact, Wilson was rewarded! To the current revolution/ coup d'etat/ dictatorship, Ferguson was a sign their would be few repercussion and that real change would be a decade or more away.
McCulloch put on his kangaroo court, and the DOJ came and audited and made suggestions. But there wasn't any real threat to the Darren Wilson's of the world. (Two days ago we have two cops beating up a guy for "being black while jaywalking".) To these murderous racist sociopaths, Wilson's outcome was a permission slip to take it further.
And then this racist, pussy grabbing, grifter born with a gold spoon in his mouth comes along. Trump lied and broke every rule in the book, and yet he was elected! And after 12 expensive, ridiculous weeks he is still running the WH!
And the Tea Baggers, alt-Right, Conservative Evangelicals- as long as Trump keeps passing their stone age laws and legislation- they are going to keep his clown show running. It's effective and distracting. Even if they aren't personally abusing their positions of power- or shooting unarmed black men, or handcuffing five year old children- they are part of the "USA white might is right" revolution. They are part of the coup d'etat.
Because even though the revolutionaries are minority, with numbers smaller than the LGBT community, or African Americans, they figured out that they have all the guns and they have all the money. And the system is so corrupt and overloaded it is comatose. And the "good" people in power don't have much leverage, and aren't willing to play dirty.
So a few things about World War 3. There is no precedent in human history for the times we live in- the population, and in countries like our, the dependence on electricity, technology, and our separation from natural resources.
First of all, there were 1 billion people on the planet during WW1. In world war two the population was a little over 2 billion. In 1968 the world population was half of what it is now. A world war with 7 billion people on the planet, even if it doesn't go nuclear, is going to create a domino effect of serious disasters. The good news is we will all have jobs as gravediggers, or more likely, in crematoriums.
Now let's consider that in developed countries we are dependent on electricity and technology for almost everything we actually need to survive. Grocery stores only have a 3 day supply of food on any given day. Most of our food is trucked from long distances, and requires refrigeration. We can't go to the Mississippi with buckets to get water. We can't call each other or go on the internet if we don't have electricity or if the servers go down for any reason.
And then there is the nature of the war we will be fighting. Soldiers are incidental to a time when drones and missiles can be used to devastate entire urban areas, even whole states and regions. It won't matter how many guns you have, the people pushing the buttons will be so far removed from you it won't matter. There will be no POW's, no acts of mercy. (I think of the Terminator movies, where the machines were programmed to continue the war so far into the future there were no living humans controlling the machines.)
It is worth it to prepare for the World War 3 scenario. Do what you can. Begin stocking up on provisions (canned food, water, batteries, back up generator, candles) and setting up local communication networks that don't need electricity or internet or cell phones (ham radios, local meet-up places like libraries and churches, neighborhood networks). Try to keep your gas tank full.
We need to do more than march and make phone calls and attend meetings to stop this. The coup and its army aren't taking us seriously. They want a violent response. From us, from other countries. Trump's regime can't survive without violence and war. And I don't think violence will work.
We The People need to go on a mass general strike and shut down at least 40% of this countries day to day economic business. Collectively. To remind all the people in power that AREN'T in the Trump regime that We The People are the lifeblood of this country. You can't arrest people that are gathered in homes and churches and community centers calling their representatives.
Yes, some people will lose their jobs and there will still be problems. But if we can't band together and take real risks to stop this Orange Nightmare, we face a much worse problem, and soon.
So keep calling, keep organizing, keep fighting. (And right now, it almost doesn't matter what you fight for or against, only that keep bugging our so-called leaders.) But maybe stock up too, and prepare for world war 3. Because it might already be to late.
Also see: http://pag2stl.blogspot.com/2016/12/usa-please-wake-up.html
Monday, February 6, 2017
NATIONAL GENERAL STRIKE FEBRUARY 17 2017
Friday, February 17th, do not go to work. Do not go to school. Avoid buying anything.
http://f17strike.com/
http://www.attn.com/stories/14749/why-organizers-are-calling-general-strike
If you aren't going to march or gather, or picket, or hand out leaflets, or attend a meeting or conference, at least call your elected officials about the strike's main goals, or what your most important issues are, and make some calls to local officials about things in your community.
But please, remove yourself from "business as usual."
Economic boycotts only work on one side of the equation: We The People as consumers.
But we are also the workers, the creators of everything and every service, and the creators of profit, and of government salaries and spending.
If you are willing to fight to death to keep your guns, or protest in the streets for social justice, then please, join a general strike that will restore the balance of power to the people.
Violence is not going to work. We have to halt the wheels of production. Of service. Every single union needs to strike on February 17th. Organized labor is under direct attack. Other than voting, organized labor is the only real power we have.
Those in power need to remember that that all of those billions of dollars of taxes and profits can be broken down into pennies. It is true that individually we represent an insignificant portion of the vast sums of money the government and CEO's and owners get from us, but united we become unmanageable.
65 million (using Hillary Clinton's popular vote as dollars) is six hundred five billion pennies. It's a metaphor, but it is a good example of what I mean about our power combined. When you have to deal with pennies instead of dollars, buying something is a much slower process.
The Resistance to Trump is significant, but it is not working quickly enough. We have not been able to effectively remove a white supremacist as head of the NSC. Steve Bannon is writing Executive Orders that Trump is autographing. Bannon appointed himself.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/opinion/president-bannon.html?_r=0
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/02/report-bannon-had-to-be-reminded-he-wasnt-the-president.html
Steve Bannon and all other Trump Cabinet members and his appointees are not fit for office. This is unacceptable.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/trump-cabinet-tracker/510527/
We need to make this country "ungovernable" in order to take control of our government.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/make_america_ungovernable_20170205
Resistance is not revolution. It is not systemic change. We not only need to resist Trump, we need real change. Fighting this Republican agenda to return to the previous status quo means that we are not advancing to real social and economic justice.
But first we need to flex our muscles. We need a united show of strength. Then we can divide up into factions for real change.
Strike. February 17th.
http://f17strike.com/
http://www.attn.com/stories/14749/why-organizers-are-calling-general-strike
- No Ban, No Wall. The Muslim ban is immoral, the wall is expensive and ineffectual. We will build bridges, not walls.
- Healthcare For All. Healthcare is a human right. Do not repeal the ACA. Improve it or enact Medicare for All.
- No Pipelines. Rescind approval for DAPL and Keystone XL and adopt meaningful policies to protect our environment. It's the only one we've got.
- End the Global Gag Rule. We cannot put the medical care of millions of women around the globe at risk.
- Disclose and Divest. Show us your taxes. Sell your company. Ethics rules exist for a reason and presidents should focus on the country, not their company.
If you aren't going to march or gather, or picket, or hand out leaflets, or attend a meeting or conference, at least call your elected officials about the strike's main goals, or what your most important issues are, and make some calls to local officials about things in your community.
But please, remove yourself from "business as usual."
Economic boycotts only work on one side of the equation: We The People as consumers.
But we are also the workers, the creators of everything and every service, and the creators of profit, and of government salaries and spending.
If you are willing to fight to death to keep your guns, or protest in the streets for social justice, then please, join a general strike that will restore the balance of power to the people.
Violence is not going to work. We have to halt the wheels of production. Of service. Every single union needs to strike on February 17th. Organized labor is under direct attack. Other than voting, organized labor is the only real power we have.
Those in power need to remember that that all of those billions of dollars of taxes and profits can be broken down into pennies. It is true that individually we represent an insignificant portion of the vast sums of money the government and CEO's and owners get from us, but united we become unmanageable.
65 million (using Hillary Clinton's popular vote as dollars) is six hundred five billion pennies. It's a metaphor, but it is a good example of what I mean about our power combined. When you have to deal with pennies instead of dollars, buying something is a much slower process.
The Resistance to Trump is significant, but it is not working quickly enough. We have not been able to effectively remove a white supremacist as head of the NSC. Steve Bannon is writing Executive Orders that Trump is autographing. Bannon appointed himself.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/opinion/president-bannon.html?_r=0
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/02/report-bannon-had-to-be-reminded-he-wasnt-the-president.html
Steve Bannon and all other Trump Cabinet members and his appointees are not fit for office. This is unacceptable.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/trump-cabinet-tracker/510527/
We need to make this country "ungovernable" in order to take control of our government.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/make_america_ungovernable_20170205
Resistance is not revolution. It is not systemic change. We not only need to resist Trump, we need real change. Fighting this Republican agenda to return to the previous status quo means that we are not advancing to real social and economic justice.
But first we need to flex our muscles. We need a united show of strength. Then we can divide up into factions for real change.
Strike. February 17th.
Monday, January 23, 2017
IT'S TIME TO GO ON THE OFFENSE
Thank you UnPresidented Trump, you illegitimate, Russian tool.
You have awakened the Sleeping Giant.
Maybe Bernie Sanders would have awoken us to a bright new day, but your darkness has mobilized people against you. Not since the American Revolution have people been so "up in arms."
But it is a different kind of "arms" this time. It's the arms that cradle the world, "l'origine du monde"- it's the arms of women.
The mainstream media locally and nationally mostly ignored the millions of women around the world that marched, and the 20,000 that marched in downtown St. Louis, but we always knew the revolution would not be televised.
In the State of Missouri we need at least 600,000 people to be registered voters and call their elected officials as much as possible. There are 4.2 million registered voters as of 2012, the most recent numbers available.
https://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/registeredvoters/2012
We need to work to get 2.2 million liberal- or even better, progressive- voters. But mostly we need to call our elected officials. And sign petitions. And call. And write letters. And call. And call and write the media. And call. And stay informed. And call.
The revolution will not be televised. But it will be phoned in. We live in a time where our cell phones are more powerful than guns.
Yes, there will need to be protests, strikes and boycotts. But mostly there needs to be constant calls with DEMANDS from We The People.
It is time to go on the offense. This is really not the time to try to understand the Trump supporters or argue with them. It is not time to try to educate the willfully ignorant and oblivious.
There is an old fable about being in a burning house. Everyone is asleep. You are awake. You do not try to rouse the heaviest sleepers first, or go person by person. You make as much noise as you can and the light sleepers will awaken, and help awaken the others.
The "lightest sleepers" are the people that are paid by tax money and voted into office, followed by appointed officials and government agencies.
There is also little point in arguing amongst ourselves. A lot of women that marched on Saturday won't do much else. A few phone calls, some donations. Some will go to reproductive choice marches and meetings, but not economic, racial or social justice events.
Some people in that burning house are going to be hysterical and run out the door. Some are going to waste their time trying to wake up the heavy sleepers and the drugged- instead of waking up others to help carry out the sleepers that cannot be roused.
Find your kindred, focus on your issues and take them directly to elected officials and public servants. If you keep using your voice to call and make demands, and sharing information, you are the revolution.
And there HAS to be a revolution right now, because the Trump regime and the GOP are trying to burn down the house.
To win, we can't keep fighting them on their ground. We run the risk of making them stronger by focusing our energy on resisting their agenda.
We need to take over the agenda!
Go on the OFFENSE when calling:
STOP talking about the ACA/Obamacare and START demanding Universal Health Care!
Reproductive Rights for all women and FREE birth control!
Right To Work is Wrong! DEMAND $15 an hour minimum wage, unions, worker's rights- including breaks, fair unemployment benefits, and tax abatements and incentives for small, locally owned businesses.
NO registry based on religion. (Wearing a safety pin is also revolutionary.) *
More money to public schools, especially in low income neighborhoods! Free college and trade school tuition!
Automatic voter registration!
Abolish the Electoral College!
No more pipelines! Invest in public transportation and become less petroleum dependent!
St. Louis needs Downwinder Status. Our water is being poisoned by the radioactive landfills at Westlake and Bridgeton. Republic Services has had since 1947 to properly dispose of the uranium! Senators McCaskill and Blunt only need to create a Senate delegation to get Downwinder Status and the millions of dollars allocated to deal with Manhattan Project uranium!
http://pag2stl.blogspot.com/2017/01/st-louis-your-water-is-radioactive.html
St. Louis also needs to deal with the homeless, police reform, racial and social justice.
If these aren't your issues- then call about what is!
Call. Every. Damn. Day.
#whyImarch
* I often think that what we really need is a registry based on white supremacy. If these racists don't want to "mingle" with the rest of us, we should know who they are. We have the right to make sure that they never receive medical care from another race or a "race mixer" like me. Perhaps we should make literature for them using only Roman numerals, instead of Arabic? Make sure that no money from non-white racists or race mixers is spent at their businesses? Perhaps white supremacists need to be segregated? Can we give them their own neighborhood and just let them burn crosses in their own front yards? I am only half joking.
One of my favorite photos from the marches https://www.instagram.com/p/BPkkMf4gtfi/
You have awakened the Sleeping Giant.
Maybe Bernie Sanders would have awoken us to a bright new day, but your darkness has mobilized people against you. Not since the American Revolution have people been so "up in arms."
But it is a different kind of "arms" this time. It's the arms that cradle the world, "l'origine du monde"- it's the arms of women.
The mainstream media locally and nationally mostly ignored the millions of women around the world that marched, and the 20,000 that marched in downtown St. Louis, but we always knew the revolution would not be televised.
In the State of Missouri we need at least 600,000 people to be registered voters and call their elected officials as much as possible. There are 4.2 million registered voters as of 2012, the most recent numbers available.
https://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/registeredvoters/2012
We need to work to get 2.2 million liberal- or even better, progressive- voters. But mostly we need to call our elected officials. And sign petitions. And call. And write letters. And call. And call and write the media. And call. And stay informed. And call.
The revolution will not be televised. But it will be phoned in. We live in a time where our cell phones are more powerful than guns.
Yes, there will need to be protests, strikes and boycotts. But mostly there needs to be constant calls with DEMANDS from We The People.
It is time to go on the offense. This is really not the time to try to understand the Trump supporters or argue with them. It is not time to try to educate the willfully ignorant and oblivious.
There is an old fable about being in a burning house. Everyone is asleep. You are awake. You do not try to rouse the heaviest sleepers first, or go person by person. You make as much noise as you can and the light sleepers will awaken, and help awaken the others.
The "lightest sleepers" are the people that are paid by tax money and voted into office, followed by appointed officials and government agencies.
There is also little point in arguing amongst ourselves. A lot of women that marched on Saturday won't do much else. A few phone calls, some donations. Some will go to reproductive choice marches and meetings, but not economic, racial or social justice events.
Some people in that burning house are going to be hysterical and run out the door. Some are going to waste their time trying to wake up the heavy sleepers and the drugged- instead of waking up others to help carry out the sleepers that cannot be roused.
Find your kindred, focus on your issues and take them directly to elected officials and public servants. If you keep using your voice to call and make demands, and sharing information, you are the revolution.
And there HAS to be a revolution right now, because the Trump regime and the GOP are trying to burn down the house.
To win, we can't keep fighting them on their ground. We run the risk of making them stronger by focusing our energy on resisting their agenda.
We need to take over the agenda!
Go on the OFFENSE when calling:
STOP talking about the ACA/Obamacare and START demanding Universal Health Care!
Reproductive Rights for all women and FREE birth control!
Right To Work is Wrong! DEMAND $15 an hour minimum wage, unions, worker's rights- including breaks, fair unemployment benefits, and tax abatements and incentives for small, locally owned businesses.
NO registry based on religion. (Wearing a safety pin is also revolutionary.) *
More money to public schools, especially in low income neighborhoods! Free college and trade school tuition!
Automatic voter registration!
Abolish the Electoral College!
No more pipelines! Invest in public transportation and become less petroleum dependent!
St. Louis needs Downwinder Status. Our water is being poisoned by the radioactive landfills at Westlake and Bridgeton. Republic Services has had since 1947 to properly dispose of the uranium! Senators McCaskill and Blunt only need to create a Senate delegation to get Downwinder Status and the millions of dollars allocated to deal with Manhattan Project uranium!
http://pag2stl.blogspot.com/2017/01/st-louis-your-water-is-radioactive.html
St. Louis also needs to deal with the homeless, police reform, racial and social justice.
If these aren't your issues- then call about what is!
Call. Every. Damn. Day.
#whyImarch
* I often think that what we really need is a registry based on white supremacy. If these racists don't want to "mingle" with the rest of us, we should know who they are. We have the right to make sure that they never receive medical care from another race or a "race mixer" like me. Perhaps we should make literature for them using only Roman numerals, instead of Arabic? Make sure that no money from non-white racists or race mixers is spent at their businesses? Perhaps white supremacists need to be segregated? Can we give them their own neighborhood and just let them burn crosses in their own front yards? I am only half joking.
One of my favorite photos from the marches https://www.instagram.com/p/BPkkMf4gtfi/
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