Also learned something today I wasn't aware of -
2020-10-31
I wish this wasn't true.
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/10/31/election-2020-media-silence-on-assange-aids-trump/
But it's impossible to ignore -
All of these revelations should have been fuel for the anti-Trump media. Instead the extradition proceedings have been met with virtual silence. It seems there are two major areas where the mainstream press doesn’t push back on Trump: war, and Assange.
For four years, the news cycle has been flooded with empty allegations of Trump-Russia collusion and alleged Russian hacking. Yet, when there is a real opportunity to air a tangible and deeply significant criticism of Trump, the media falls silent.
What does this tell us? That the media’s loyalty to the intelligence community and endless war transcends its hatred towards Trump? Or that the corporate press can’t stand to admit (or even recognize) that the singular journalist they blamed for Trump’s presidency is now the most targeted by that same president?
2020-10-30
I wonder how much of this has Scamazon's involvement?
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/27/sawa-o27.html
The recall campaign against Sawant is an attempt to intimidate and suppress social opposition to police violence, racism and social inequality, which has been intensified by the criminally negligent response of the Trump administration, with the complicity of Democratic governors and mayors, to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020-10-29
All this talk of election 'coup' is this the new Russiagate?
So something I'm seeing in a lot of left- and progressive sites I frequent is this talk of a coup. Given the rather nefarious connection between the Democratic brand, the CIA, and various progressive outlets, I often wonder if this is just another talking point being handed to them to justify the reason for Biden losing, should Trump be declared the winner?
I've said before that it doesn't really matter whether Biden or Trump wins ... it's going to be more of the same for the 1% and the rest of us will have to deal with the pending collapse.
That being said,
we know from history that various elements of the establishment
typically line up along these two brands - Democrat and Republican. They
too tend to fight among themselves all the time. But I am seeing this coup talk popping in a lot of places, and I'm starting to wonder ... this to me sounds a lot like Russiagate all over again. All being done to avoid discussing (again) how a progressive was cheated in the Democratic Brand primary (again) by projecting the very same behavior on their other Brand opponent? Certainly they were able to fund-raise magnificently for four years, why not use a new meme for the next four years to avoid talking about the real reasons why they lost?
2020-10-28
New word of the day - Externalities.
Sad thing is, we all know what this is, even if we have never heard of the word. Another set of terms to describe it as global capitalism's business as usual -
In economics, “externalities” are usually defined indifferently as the effects of a commercial or industrial process on a third party that are not costed into that process.
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/10/27/taking-money-with-one-hand-fooling-us-with-the-other/
No Redemption for Genocide.
https://mondoweiss.net/2026/10/no-redemption-for-genocide-pym-on-the-road-ahead/ Much to still do.
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This time it'll be a little longer than normal. We'll see how well things go. After all, it does apparently keep me employed.