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The Fascist Events of January 6th, Day Ten

15 Fri Jan 2021

Posted by ztnh in Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Fascism, Anti-Racism, Anti-Totalitarianism

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LUMPENPROLETARIAT—In the summer of 2016, America just wasn’t looking in such hot shape. “From poisoned water and police violence in our cities, to gun massacres and hate-mongering on the presidential campaign trail, evidence that America [was] at war with itself [was] everywhere around us. The question [was] not whether or not [it was] happening, but how to understand the forces at work in order to prevent conditions from getting worse. Henry A. Giroux [offered us] a powerful, far-reaching critique of the economic interests, cultural dimensions, and political dynamics involved in the nation’s shift toward increasingly abusive forms of power. His analysis [helped some] of us […] frame critical questions about what can and should be done to turn things around while we can.”  That is, before the fascists finally succeed in a violent coup and permanently close our open society, as Naomi Wolff warned us back in 2007 with The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot.  Unfortunately, not enough Americans are reading these days.  Our political, historical, and intellectual tools must always be sharpened. And the best way is to read, or listen to, books.  Watch informative videos.  Be true to reality.   Find like-minded people.  Self-educate for correct political action.

“Reflecting on a wide range of social issues, Giroux contrasts Donald Trump’s America with Sandra Bland’s to understand who really benefits from politically fueled intolerance for immigrants, communities of color, Muslims, low-income families, and those who challenge state and corporate power. A passionate advocate for civil rights and the importance of the imagination, Giroux argues that only through widespread social investment in democracy and education can the common good hope to prevail over the increasingly concentrated influence of extreme right-wing politicians and self-serving economic interests.”

That was 2016.  Everyone underestimated just how dangerous Trump can be.  Now, it’s 2021.  America has reached over 24 million COVID-19 infections and almost 400,000 covid-related deaths.  National Geographic reported last April that the American death toll has surpassed the so-called Vietnam War. Many Americans understand Trump failed his nation with his narcissistic abuse and gaslighting, acting like there was no problem until many of us were infected.  It bears repeating, but liberals, who were surprised by the fascist events of January 6th, need to read up on their American History X. Dr. Peter Dale Scott is a good place to start for adults.  Dr. James Loewen or Dr. Howard Zinn are good places to start for kids.  The problem is, we, Americans see what we want to see and hear what we want to hear when it suits us.  Too many of us have veered off into our own little narcissistic bubbles, where we attempt to deny the pain and suffering of everyone around us, so that we can feed on narcissistic supply. 

I suspect the latest literature on narcissistic personality disorder spectra, particularly around “reactive narcissism”, as explained by Dr. James McIntosh on Pacifica Radio this week, will give us many tools to help us explain the psychological dimensions of this mental illness known as “racism”.  We may find these social pathologies may constitute a cluster of disorders, similar to how we have “Cluster-B” personality disordered type people.  We may find common features to mindsets, like “racism”, fascism, and narcissism.

“Reflecting on a wide range of social issues, Giroux [contrasted] Donald Trump’s America with Sandra Bland’s to understand who really benefits from politically-fueled intolerance for immigrants, communities of color, Muslims, low-income families, and those who challenge state and corporate power. A passionate advocate for civil rights and the importance of the imagination, Giroux argues that only through widespread social investment in democracy and education can the common good hope to prevail over the increasingly concentrated influence of extreme right-wing politicians and self-serving economic interests.”

Alas, I’m afraid not enough of us were up to that task, which Dr. Giroux and others laid out for us back in 2016, and even earlier.  It’s clear the solution involves action.  We begin to self-educate for correct political action.  Then, we take action.  Let’s get involved in any way, which feels right to us.  As we grow, mature, and evolve, so can our politics and our civic engagement.

As I’m taking my spare time to study and understand the fascist events of January 6th, I’m returning to the warning signs many of us missed.  It’s never too late to learn to identify red flags, whether in interpersonal relationships or in politics.  Dr. Henry Giroux has been clueing us in to many of those red flags.  Bourgeois politics has simply failed to provide a meaningful response to the neoliberal assaults on human beings around the world.   In retrospect, Dr. Giroux’s book, America At War With Itself, seems prophetic at this particular historical moment.

@LumpenProles

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City Lights Publishers, Aug 22, 2016 – Political Science – 320 pages

Consider downloading the Pacifica Radio app for easy access to some cool free speech radio stations across the nation.  You can also listen live online, or access audio archives at KPFA, WBAI, WPFW, and KPFK.

Friday, January 15, 2021

04:35 PST, WPFW > music (blues)

04:38 PST, WBAI > talk. linguistics, “out-of-Africa theory”, etc.

04:00 – 05:00 PST, KPFA > 04:42 PST, talk/babble (satirical jibberish)

KPFK > Something’s Happening A > […] > The Thom Hartmann Show (rerun) > […] 04:40 PST, [TP] On the fascist events of January 6th.  04:45 PST, “I’m more convinced that this is more sinister than we imagine.”  TH:  ‘I believe within the party that there is some bifurcation. Some were in on it.  Some weren’t.  At least ten weren’t willing to LIHOP.’  I dunno, Tom.  Those ten could be shills for the GOP, just to give liberals like you that flimsy talking point your upholding about a bifurcation. A 50/50 split, even 60/40 might seem like a “bifurcation”.  But just ten Republicans.  No.  04:48 PST, Greg Palast [TP] corroborated report about women’s group plan for rally, keystone cops ‘were told there would be no rally’.  But black folks, in the east coast, especially on WPFW, have been saying the DC mayor was asking for police staffing and back up before Wednesday.  But her requests were put on hold, on review for approval, and were ultimately ignored. Palast seems unaware of this notion that the cops were caught off guard.  The first person I heard push this narrative was an FBI man interviewed on Pacifica Radio this week. Let that sink in.

05:00 PST – 06:00 PST, KPFK > Something’s Happening B > Democracy Now! News Headlines. […] 05:17 PST, First Look/The Intercept fired Laura Poitras.  WTF?!  Okay, Jeremy Scahill, what now?  The Intercept is looking quite vile now. 05:18 PST, The Tom Hartmann Show (rerun)

05:00 PST, KPFA > […] Prof on the deplatforming of Donald Trump. > 05:33 PST, On MLK history […, 05:43]

05:00 PST, WPFW [DC] & WBAI [NYC] (simulcast) > Democracy Now![…] 05:44 PST, polio vaccine documentary, Around the World, excerpt.

05:00 PST, KPFK > […] Economic Update > 05:44 PST, On the fascist events of January 6th. Tp who is working class?

06:00 PST, The Stephanie Miller Show > […] 06:31 PST, “Corey Bush is my new spirit animal.”  Clip. “I could feel their sphincter snap shut!”  […]  “Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!”  “You know what made my blood boil?  [They side-stepped metal detectors to walk in armed.]  It was Blue Lives Only Matter.”  […] Capitol Police officer killed himself after this. […] [TP]

06:24 PST, Meanwhile, I’m getting a report from my ‘cousin’ commuting on 580 West out of Tracy (CA) toward the SF Bay Area of one of those giant trucks with a giant flag waving in the fast lane on a giant flag pole.  When I see those trucks going by, usually aggressively speeding past everyone in some vulgar display of white privilege and male patriarchy, I feel that sinking feeling, which Meredith Miller describes at Inner Integration when one feels the approach of a narcissistic abuser.

06:00 PST, WPFW > […] 06:35 PST, music (hip hop; ’90s jazzy style) 06:37 PST, interview about climate activism, “scarcity to abundance”, “mobilize to organize”, “What is Afro-Futurism?” Destiny Hodges(sp?).

06:00 PST, WBAI > Brent Michael Phillips, again, “you will clear hundreds of subconscious blocks” “I’m also including my trauma clearing process”, which uses a special encoding based on aural beats, which puts your brain into a theta state.  “It’s amazingly powerful.”  Yo, that’s some far out shit.  I’m gonna call it snake oil, though, if this dude is price-gouging Pacifica Radio listeners.  I never really heard of this guy before I turned on Pacifica Radio to tune in for coverage of the fascist events of January 6th.  We ain’t got time for this bloke right now. If he’s legit, or not, leave your comments below.

06:47 PST, Amy Goodman implicitly cheerleads for vaccine corporations by holding up the polio vaccine.  But the primary mode of polio transmission is a fecal-oral route.  We can see how sanitation and a vaccine could virtually eliminate the polio virus.  But the coronovirus doesn’t need a fecal-oral route.  As far as we know, the existing science and literature is clear that people with symptoms are contagious via saliva, droplets and breathing in confined spaces.  News reports after the 6th reported that Democrat congress members have become infected with the coronovirus after being confined in close quarters with Republican congress members, who refused to wear a mask.  The coronovirus is like the flu virus, in the sense that it is expected to be seasonal and to mutate.  We’ve already seen at least one variant, which may render the first vaccine useless.  If it takes a year or more to develop a vaccine, but the variants are coming faster than the new vaccines can be developed, produced, distributed, and administered, then we can see how this may be an uphill battle to contain the pandemic.  It’s disappointing Amy Goodman didn’t point this out, apparently, in her zeal to counter ant8-vaxxers.  The public discourse gets dumbed down in the process, however.  06:54 PST, Noam Chomsky clip; then back to interview with the son of polio vaccine inventor.  “Who profits from these vaccines, Dr. Salk(sp?)?”, asked Amy Goodman.  “There needs to be a creative cooperation […]”

07:00 PST, KPFA > Biden:  “We can’t not not afford to […] [?] 2020 is the hottest year on record, each year has been hotter than the previous year for the last six years.  Our planet is clearly heating up.  Greta Thunberg appeals to the apathetic bourgeoisie around the world, who reply with a collective yawn.  >  UpFront > host Janine Edder(sp?) > topic: Uganda > guest: Prof. Horace Campbell.  “Idi Amin” “brutal” leader.  Ugandan history is about British colonialism.  South = coffee.  North = ?  British used a divide and conquer strategy, which is like the narcissistic abuser behavior of instigating conflict and then sitting back and feeding on the narcissistic supply.  (Cf. Meredith Miller, Inner Integration)  […]

07:00 PST, WPFW > […] Dr. Gerald Horne […]  07:14 PST, “the money was apparently transferred from western Europe” […] to fund the so-called ‘Insurrection’.  This corroborates what anti-racist watch observers have been saying.  There are social networks being established by northern Europeans.  YouTuber Lasse Burholt is one example, which started popping up on my YouTube feed, after I started monitoring right-wing media.  07:19 PST, “Headlines & Happenings”

07:00 PST, WBAI > […] 07:20 PST, talk, interview about guest’s craft of preparing “comfort food” […] 

07:00 PST, KPFK > SojournerTruth with Margaret Prescod > 07:23 PST, “deep patriarchal” structure.  Jackie Goldberg. [TP]  Are we, Americans, so afraid of the word conspiracy, such that we don’t see the Q-Anon conspirators sitting in Congress?  “I do think that this is a very dangerous time.”  “These death threats […]”

08:00 PST, WPFW > […] 08:40 PST, talk, last 15 min were bullshit bourgeois analysis, name-calling and ad hominem attacks against the demonstrators and rioters.  (See audio note.)  All apologies, but these liberal talking heads sound sedated and politically comatose.  Earlier in the hour, a male caller tried to expand the analysis and explanations for the fascist events of January 6th beyond a simple race narrative.  The caller pointed out the crimes of state, which Obama presided over, evidencing the police state and imperialist nature of the Obama administration.  These bourgeois talking heads dismissed him, then proceeded to spout platitudes. Presumably, they’re partisan Democrats, who can’t take criticism, like lame narcissists.  I’d like to debate these blokes on this pont because it’s a serious one.  We need to be clear on our analysis, as Carl Dix reminds us.

09:00 PST, KPFA > Democracy Now! > […] [TP] 0930, guy just gave good analysis, but his blind spot is white nationalism.  He underestimates how deep racism goes at the core of the American deep state (cf. Dr. Peter Dale Scott) […] [TP] Nina Simone – ” I Wish I Knew How It Feels To Be Free”  Indeed.  Cf. The Idles.

10:00 PST, KPFK > The Michael Slate Show > real talk about the fascist assaults of January 6th. […]  This was a scrappy broadcast, but a very important one.  I have never felt such authenticity from her before.  She represented the non-intellectual working class types in a way.  She brought diversity to the discussion. Growing pains.

11:00 PST, KPFK > Global Village > music (tropical, Brazilian)

11:00 PST, WBAI > Neurodiversity > White-sounding lady talks about her politics around autism spectrum self-advocacy and advocacy.  People of color can benefit from taking her certitude, white privilege (perhaps), language of identity politics, but use it to be more demanding about our requirements for human dignity.  Natalie Tanduway(sp?).  Julia from Autistic Advocacy Network.  Maybe people of color don’t; maybe I’m projecting. Hm.

1100 KPFA VOMENA(?) “Palestinian””ethnic studies” California. CDE rollback of ethnic studies.

11:30 PST, WBAI > EcoLogic.

11:00 PST, WPFW > 11:44 PST, talk. [TW] On the fascist assaults of January 6th.

12:00 PST, KPFA > KPFA News Headlines [TP] Reports say pro-Trump loyalists in DC last week planned to assassinate politicians. > Special Broadcast on the fascist assaults of January 6th. [TW] White-sounding guy began with introduction.  ‘Ali Alexander has gone into hiding.’ Earlier it was reported the guy with horns author Talia was talking about with KPFA’s Mitch Jeserich. Is that guy really a terrorist?  He struck me as an anti-statist hedonist, an individualist. […]  12:20 PST, “The first block is the soft coup block.” [TP]  ‘The second block is the hard coup block.”  […]  “The thin blue line is this idealized space.”  […]  ‘Rudy Giuliani called the wrong people, leaving voicemails to conspire for the 6th.  […]  “the new militias” are not like the Michigan militias, which were pro-Constitution motivated.  These guys are white nationalists.  Let’s not forget about CIA disinformation in right-wing media.  This white-sounding guy is providing excellent analysis, which is quite consistent with our perspective here at Lumpenproletariat.  We need more experts like this guy, also the guy from Southern Poverty Law Center we heard on Pacifica Radio last week.  […]  On Q-Anon:  ‘Following Q-Anon hurts my brain.’  But the anti-semitic Q-Anon narrative has some grains of truth to it with the whole Epstein scandal and Bill Clinton’s exposure and others implicated in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking and blackmailing scandal. […]  12:36 PST, ‘messianic narratives and the end times, like ISIS.  The speaker isn’t saying it, but I’m reminded of K Street and an interview Mitch Jeserich about the house on K Street, where The Family lives.  Netflix made a documentary series based on the same book, I think.  But “The Family” is a cult-like group, who are influential in Washington, D.C. and Congress.  These elites believe that an apocalyptic conflagration between good and evil will take place, which will usher in the return of Christ or something. So, in that narrative ), funding and backing Israel is essential.  So, this may help explain America’s exorbitant expenditures in backing up the illegal occupation of Palestine.  […]  it’s “a death cult”. 12:44 PST, From listening to this analysis, it seems that CIA, et al have mastered manipulating ‘useful idiots’, peaking with 9/11-related terrorism.  And, now, turning their cross hairs towards  their ultimate enemy—Americans. […] 12:49 PST, On the contrast between the benign depictions or “optics” on TV versus the violent reality on the ground. That smacks of a corporate media ‘stand-down’, as it were. […] 12:55 PST, ‘They didn’t just kill the cop. They knocked his ass out, dragged him, then beat him to death.’ Let that sink in, America. These thugs have overdosed on hate speech and have become outright fascists. We need to listen to these experts, who have been monitoring these groups. They are being used and manipulated by the American ruling class to advance an anti-working class, anti-labor, antidemocratic, pro-fascist, pro-capitalist, racist, and narcissistic agenda.

12:00 PST. WPFW > […] 12:11 PST, “The Fantastic Friday Show” with Bobby Rocks(sp?).  12:12 PST, black-sounding American with a rant of righteous indignation. Well said.  12:13 PST, jazzy hip hop instrumental track. […]  12:47 PST, music; later-era Marvin Gaye sounds.

12:00 PST, WBAI > […] 12:15 PST, On the fascist assaults of January 6th. [TW]  “There will be violence.”  No wonder Trump’s wife had announced she was planning to divorce him recently.  Maybe she knew something we didn’t.  Maybe she wanted to avoid culpability in what she saw as a losing strategy. But I’m only speculating.  It’d be interesting to investigate and see where that question leads.

12:00 PST, KPFK > […] 12:50 PST, music (Brazilian).

13:00 PST, KPFA > Project Censored Show > Kevin Gastola(sp?) with an update on the 6th, Assange update, and more. [TW]

14:00 PST, KPFA > On the fascist assaults on January 6th, and parsing the loyalist mob groupings. Bundy Family and other standoffs

[These are my raw notes. I will expand and edit, as time constraints allow.  TP = transcript pending volunteer labor. Please help transcribe breaking news and information. It’s urgent that we document the people’s narrative of the events of January 6th.  Please, also monitor corporate media and right-wing media, too.  Solidarity. ]

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The Fascist Events of January 6th, Day Nine

14 Thu Jan 2021

Posted by ztnh in Anti-Fascism, Anti-Racism, Anti-Totalitarianism

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Sooner or later, the chickens always come home to roost.  That’s what we saw on Wednesday, January 6th. Black people were the first observers I noticed pointing this out. Others were surprised.  They don’t remember Malcolm X.  Yet, the U.S. has been interfering with elections around the world. Most of the violent mob on Wednesday were law enforcement or military-trained.  So, the lynch mob violence the world witnessed on the 6th at the Capitol might be interpreted as police harassment and brutality against Congress. Mob violence by a bunch of pro-cop thugs and out-of-uniform cops coalesced on the 6th in a frenzy of misguided, manipulated, and misdirected frustration to subject Congress to the type of police harassment, profiling (persecuting), beating, and killing, which police agencies have been doing to people of color for decades across the nation.  Again, the chickens have come home to roost.

@LumpenProles

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Thursday, January 14, 2021

Welcome to my notebook.  It seems Dems held the line yesterday. Only ex-Dems argued against impeachment. But only ten Republicans voted against fascism yesterday. That speaks to the reactive narcissism of the Republican Party. They are committing political suicide, even willing to risk reducing our government to a quasi banana republic, or a politically unstable country. Clearly, the GOP cares more about preserving white supremacy than democracy. If the GOP is dying, do not resuscitate, it has proven itself illegitimate and antidemocratic. The sad thing is the Democrat Party has also been historically antidemocratic in its collusion with the Republican Party to block alternative political parties from the presidential debates and ballot access in many states across the nation with top-two primary laws and whatnot.

05:00 – 06:00 PST, WPFW [DC] & WBAI [NYC] & (simulcast) > Democracy Now! > News Headlines > Trump weaponizing census against immigrants.

05:00 PST – 06:00 PST, KPFK > Something’s Happening B > Democracy Now! News Headlines. >  05:15 PST, The Tom Hartmann Show (rerun)  Coverage of Impeachment Proceedings. Quigley. Deb Ross (D). Man from Virginia (R).[…] 0550, end of show. 05:54 PST, “All You Fascists Bound to Lose” song

06:00 PST, KPFK [L.A.] > The Stephanie Miller Show > [TP]  On the fascist events of January 6th. Compelling analysis f4om guest guy, who monitors right-wing media and groupings.

06:00 PST, WPFW > […] > On the Margin > [TP] Primary document: Fascinating interview by young man with an elder woman.  06:23 PST, “Jim was the one that built the trains.”  ‘Yes.  And wasn’t he responsible for Mary Frances Berry coming to D.C.”  Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.  Books:  The Making of Black Revolutionaries, first published by McMillan. Sammy Young, Jr was the first to die, shot by a gas station attendant who would not allow him to use the restroom for whites. He was a young hero. Grove Press book on Sammy Young, Jr. […]  James Foreman, his Freedom of Information Files (FOIA) ‘they were following him all his life.’  JF died in 2005.  Library of Congress has organized a lot of Civil Rights era documents. “Jim wanted to be a novelist.”  “But, somehow, [his novel] was lost during the [Civil Rights] movement.”

06:00 PST, WBAI > Equal Rights and Justice with Mimi Rosenberg > […] 06:38 PST, talk. 6th aftermath. Biden politics will replay Obama-style neoliberalism.  06:42 PST, will there be a shift in the Republican Party? […]  On the Q-Anon narratives and their adherents.  ‘Will Trump be able to form, or coalesce, something cohesive out of the disparate racist and fascist groups.  Recall: ‘Hitler lost control of the Brown Shirts. So, he ended up executing them.’  ‘Trump alienated the military, so his power grab failed.’  [Imagine if he’d charmed the military. Oh, the horror.]

06:00 PST, KPFA [Berkeley, CA] > Democracy Now! > […]  06:55 PST, COVID-19 vaccine science update. […]

07:00 PST, KPFA > […] [TP] 07:26 PST, the legalities of why Trump can, and must, be impeached. “They’re on the books.  And he should be charged […]” BET interview [TP] […]  07:57 PST, listener call-ins. ‘The lack of a 3rd party is the problem…’ [Yet, KPFA never supported third-party politics. They never gave Ralph Nader air-time until he was no longer politically viable. Then, they and Pacifica Radio gave him a radio show. Classic.]

07:00 PST, WPFW [DC] & WBAI [NYC] (simulcast) > The Collision with Dave Zirin > 07:28 PST, talk. sports. 07:30 PST, music break (’90s hip hop)

07:00 PST, KPFK > Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod […] 07:35 PST, environmental activism, the Tongas(?)  07:37 PST, music break (“Eyes On the Prize” by Sweet Honey and the Rock. Up next, Haiti.

08:00 – 09:00 PST, KPFK > Democracy Now! > […] [TW] The Bitter Fruits of… Dr. Keeanga Yamatta-Taylor(sp?)

08:00 – 09:00 PST, WBAI > Sojourner Truth > [TP] dr joy de grus(sp?)

08:00 PST, WPFW > 08:15 PST, [TP] resistance to ‘Orientalism’ through arts, tapestry (cf. Edward Said)

08:00 – 09:00 PST, KPFA > UpFront > BET

09:00 PST, WPFW > music: the blues

09:00 PST, WBAI > Gary Null [TP] Interesting info, during fund drive broadcast.

09:00 PST, KPFA > Democracy Now!> 09:23 PST, John Boniface(sp?), 6th.

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10:00 PST, WBAI > Black Agenda Radio > […] 10:20 PST, [rerun] black anarchists and pan-african socialism. [See audio note.]  Author [TP], Dr. Marx

10:00 PST, WPFW > 1016 covid info talk > 10:35 PST, [TP] Richard Schweib(sp?) (from Barcelona) on labor topics. RS reported severe lockdown there. “You really can’t leave the municipality [after curfew] without good cause.” […]  11:20 PST, Is it inflammatory to talk about an ‘inside job’ or LIHOP? [Tw] what can we learn from the 9/11 Truth Movement? […] 1141 [TP] 11:46 PST, “white Christian nationalism” is the problem… [TP] cf. ‘work of black women’

1155 bai wpfw news headlines

12:00 – 13:00 PST, KPFA > Behind the News > Jodi Dean [TP] “Ted Cruz is just so utterly vile.” –Jodi Dean on #BehindTheNews with @DougHenwood .  “The question is: What’s  the next thing that’s gonna bring them [the motley assortment of misguided discontents] together.” 1232, quincy Bowdoin author of Globalists(?)

13:00 PST, KPFK > [TP] white-sounding people engaging in liberal, bourgeois politics. With all due respect, I’ve heard this before. This is not for me. And I wouldn’t recommend this naive pollyannish rubbish. This man is regurgitating old Alan Watts hits with less verve. And, even, he will admit that he was merely interpreting eastern philosophy for the west. His female companion cited the problem of the day (re: the 6th) as the “virus, social justice, and politics”. 13:16 PST, this woman has no concept of white supremacy, much less white nationalism or fascism. People need to read Dr. Peter Dale Scott, Dr. Peter Phillips, Dr. Karl Marx, Dr. Michelle Alexander, Fred Hampton, Frantz Fanon. I dunno. Maybe this bourgeois broadcast is good for somebody out there. I just can’t think of who that might be.

Meanwhile, as the U.S. empire convulsed internally on its own toxicity, externally, its moral authority, even decency (and, by extension, its imperial authority) is being challenged abroad. RT has just reported: “China says ‘George Floyd cannot even breathe freely’ as it blasts US over Uighur Muslims forced labor claims”. We gotta wake the folk up. Our nation, or rather our ‘ship of state’ (whatever the hell that means) is belligerent, when it needs to be humble. Maybe it’s time to begin questioning so-called ‘statist’ solutions and start thinking about ‘stateless’ solutions.

13:00 PST, WBAI [NYC] > Democracy Now! > Dr. Keeanga Yamatta(sp?) Taylor [TP]

“Observation No Crime” by Fela Kuti

14:00 PST

Back in October 2020, the AP reported, “Black officers break from unions over Trump endorsements.” Many of us may be excused for not having heard about this. Such dissent flew under the radar for too many of us. Then we have the following headline from NPR, also from October 2020, “How Endorsement Of Trump Could Affect Legitimacy Of Police.” Revealing NPR’s bias, their wordsmith, Martin Kaste, wrote about cops’ bromance with Trump, “Some worry that kind of political alignment may undermine the police’s legitimacy.” No shit? Rather than make me worry, the notion warms my cockles. I imagine I’m not alone. I have never felt anything except racism and hostility from police. Well, that’s not true on an individual basis. I have encountered respectful cops. But it’s true at the institutional level. And that makes me question the decency of cops, who do not dissent from the white supremacist and, increasingly, white nationalist nature of police agency leadership.

The so-called “Blue Wall of Silence” has functioned as subterfuge for white supremacist ideology. We all need to seriously think about defunding the police. Listening to Pacifica Radio very closely this past week, I heard at least one excellent explanation of the concept of defunding the police. Defunding the police doesn’t mean abolish the police. It means prioritizing the social programs, which cops themselves admit are needed to reduce poverty and other incentives for crime. When local funding is allocated, and crime is held up as a problem to be solved, we cannot simply continue to increase police funding as if that will solve crime. It hasn’t so far. There’s no reason to expect it will now. People are incentivized to commit crime, by and large, due to poverty and other social ills, for which solutions exist, but political will is lacking. Socialist and communist politics understands this fact of sociology. Capitalist politics is all about individualism. There is no space for social concerns or socioeconomic, or even simply social, justice in capitalist social relations. Any humanity in capitalist societies was injected from other ideologies, such as spirituality and basic human, neighborly decency.

15:00 PST,

And then Scott Rodd filed this foreboding, or comforting, headline, for CapRadio: “California To Deploy National Guard Ahead Of Expected Demonstrations Leading Up To Inauguration Day.” Yo7 can’t blame the governor. Right-wing and fascist media has been broadcasting all sorts of rabid incitement and plotting everywhere. It seems authorities have been responding somewhat. The FBI has issued warnings that the fascists are planning armed demonstrations and/or occupations in all 50 states.

20:00

[These are my raw notes. I will expand and edit, as time constraints allow.  TP = transcript pending volunteer labor. Please help transcribe breaking news and information. It’s urgent that we document the people’s narrative of the events of January 6th.  Please, also monitor corporate media and right-wing media, too.  Solidarity. ]

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Right-Wing Fascist Alliance Lynch Mob Violence, Day Eight

13 Wed Jan 2021

Posted by ztnh in Anti-Fascism, Anti-Racism, Anti-Totalitarianism, Anti-War, Civic Engagement (Activism), Uncategorized

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LUMPENPROLETARIAT—Let’s stay vigilant, folks.  The events of January 6th may begin to fade from the news cycle, but the forces of fascism are still out there plotting their assaults on democracy.  Bourgeois politics debate in Congress today, whether or not to defend democracy and the rule of law in America.  It seems the brute physical violence of last Wednesday will be translated, today, into legislative violence waged by the Republican Party against democracy.  False moral equivalency will be drawn between anti-racist / anti-fascist protests and outright fascist / racist marauding. And Dems will continue to enable the Republican Party by authoring only one single Article of Impeachment, when dozens could be authored.  And Dems will likely continue their low-energy-level ‘opposition’ to Republican fascism by equivocating and handling the fascists with kid gloves.

@LumpenProles

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Welcome to my notebook.  These are my raw notes…  Help tell the people’s history. Take back the narrative from the corporate media.  What did you see on January 6th? 

Please share your comments below.  Let’s dialogue; and, in so doing, heal our nation and build up our nation from the bottom up.

Download the Pacifica Radio app for easy access to honest, fact-based, historically-based free speech journalism, news, information, and culture. Let’s share honest free-speech media; but we also must stay vigilant and monitor right-wing media, especially those putting out hate speech.

Let’s hear what people are saying on free speech radio about #45’s ongoing attempts to stay in power. Of course, today is all about impeaching Trump. Almost all of the experts featured on Pacifica Radio have urged for immediate impeachment to disempower the would-be dictator. However, a few legal experts pointed out that the 25th Amendment was largely “performative” here. Also, Dems are counting on Mitch “The Grim Reaper” McConnel.

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

05:00 – 06:00 PST, KPFA > Rising Up with Sonali Kolhatkar.

06:00 – 07:00 PST, KPFA > Special Broadcast: Impeachment Proceedings. “Direct from the US House of Representatives, KPFA brings you the proceedings on a vote to impeach President Donald Trump, with hosts Brian Edwards Tiekert and Mitch Jeserich.”  BET intro. Mitch Jeserich joins in after a few minutes. Background on 25th Amendment. 06:11 PST, Republicans will likely take issue with 25th Amendment being used, as it was originally designed for medical emergencies when a president may be incapacitated, rather than for political reasons. 06:17 PST, AOC feared for her life, she said.  And rightly so, as observers have noted. Had the lynch mob spotted AOC or Pelosi, they would’ve been lynched. Some house members have been infected with COVID-19 after huddling with anti-masker Republicans during the events of January 6th. […] 06:23 PST, live feed of Impeachment Proceedings begins. […] (c. 29:00) Tom Kohl(sp?) (R – OK) Prof. Jonathan Turley cited as being opposed to a “snap impeachment.” ‘Alan Dershowitz, et al think that Trump’s words are not impeachable.’ No? How about his actions? […] Woman argues in favor of impeachment and rails against terrorism. She’s barking up the wrong tree. The threat is fascism, not terrorism.

07:00 > 07:30 PST, WPFW > 07:50 PST, black women’s service sorority history

07:00 – 09:00 PST, KPFA > Special Broadcast: House Impeachment Proceedings. “Direct from the US House of Representatives, KPFA brings you the proceedings on a vote to impeach President Donald Trump, with hosts Brian Edwards Tiekert and Mitch Jeserich.” N.B.:  KPFA did not make this broadcast available as an mp3 download. 

07:00 PST, WBAI > 07:54 PST, Brent Michael Phillips path to wealth/health pitch fund drive

07:00 PST, KPFK, > [TW] Sojourner Truth.

08:00 PST, KPFK > 08:35 PST, [TW] Prof Timothy Snider (Yale Univ) says this was predictable in NY Times cover story article, “The American Abyss”.  08:44 PST, Next, COVID-19 update from L.A.

08:00 PST, KPFA > UpFront > John Nichols [TW] > 08:45 PST, Mitch Jeserich explained the protocol in Congress for debate and voting on impeachment. ‘No Republicans have voted for impeachment yet,’ said Jeserich.

08:00 PST, KPFK > 08:52, “Indigenous communities”

09:00 PST, WPFW > 09:14, “Black Velvet” by Heart

09:00 PST, KPFK [L.A.] > The Tom Hartmann Show > 09:15 PST, A congressman and listener call-ins

09:00 PST, KPFA > Special Broadcast: House Impeachment Proceedings > 09:18, 0931, live coverage of Congress. 0931, live feed. c. 09:35, Pelosi.  0942, Republican X. BS arguments: no hearings; this is a hearing. too soon; we don’t need more time. Dems are counting on McConnell, and after the 20th. McConnell the grim reaper cannot be trusted. — snip —  10:40, Dem. Maxine Waters: ’45 watched it all from TV!’ [Low energy from Dems; Maxine is the 1st voice of real indignation and concern. Even more than Dissilio(sp?), the author of the only impeachment article introduced.

10:00 PST, KPFA > Letters and Politics Special: House Impeachment Proceedings Live. [TW] “

Direct from the US House of Representatives, KPFA brings you the proceedings on a vote to impeach President Donald Trump, with hosts Brian Edwards Tiekert and Mitch Jeserich. Guest: Ruth Conniff is Editor-in-Chief of the Wisconsin Examiner and Editor-at-Large for The Progressive Magazine.”

10:00 PST, WBAI > Leonard Lopat3 At Large.  — snip —  10:52 PST, author of Solving the Climate Problem Is Simple, on climate change. leonardlopate@WBAI.org

10:55 PST, WBAI, News Headlines, “mob attack”. “Several”, “at least five”, including Lynn Chaney. Armed troops surrounded the Capitol Building today, during impeachment hearing. [TW]

11:00 PST, WBAI > health

11:00 PST, KPFA [Berkeley] & KPFK [L.A.] (simulcast) > Special Broadcast: Impeachment Proceedings Live. Host Mitch Jeserich, ongoing live coverage of the U.S. Congress Impeachment Hearing in D.C.  — snip —  11:25 PST, [TW] analysis 11:32, what happens if Trump tries to pardon himself?  Legal scholars are debating this now.  But never, says legal expert woman, has our nation fallen so low that a president is trying to pardon himself.’

1134, wbai pst [TW] Randy. Marty. Assange trial. [TW]

1137, wpfw, “baltimore”, “art”

12:00 PST, WBAI, Black Agenda Radio with Glen Ford and. 1. On the events of January 6th. 2. On black anarchists. 12:25 PST, What’s trans anarchism? 

12:00 PST, WPFW > 12:29 PST, “give voice to what people are feeling in constructive ways.”  ‘This is a wake up call for a lot of people for a lot of different reasons.’

12:00 PST, KPFA & KPFK (simulcast) > Special Broadcast: House Impeachment Proceedings Live “Direct from the US House of Representatives, KPFA brings you the proceedings on a vote to impeach President Donald Trump, with hosts Brian Edwards Tiekert and Mitch Jeserich.” > 12:32, “opposition to th3 gaslighting” [Yes, Lizzy lady!] — snip — 13:11 PST, Karen Greenberg(sp?) on legal responses to the Events of January 6th. Predictably, bourgeois politics is overreacting, calling for domestic terrorism laws, which are code for anti-1st amendment attitudes.  In other words, American liberals’ misguided, or naive, analysis, which views the 6th as a simple political problem stemming from a single malignant politician. Even if humanely, judiciously, and with a view toward containing the misled white supremacists and white nationalists, Greenberg(sp?), et al would have us focus on the individual as the source of the problem, rather than a broader, more complex or systemic explanation of the problem.  Not only did she lack a critical ‘race’/ethnic theory.  She had no ‘race’/ethnic theory.  The system of white supremacy doesn’t even enter her discussion. And, therefore, such bourgeois, liberal types always have a blind-spot, which causes them to underestimate the determination of white supremacists and white nationalists. We saw how that blind spot caught them off guard on the 6th. White liberals said they were surprised. This is not America, said White America.  This is America, said black people.  This has always been America, said people of color.

Meanwhile, as the Q-Anon narrative falls apart, its adherents are starting to defect. Kyle Kulinski explained on Secular Talk how Alex Jones may only be distancing himself for legal liability reasons. But InfoWars host Alex Jones has renounced Q-Anon.

13:00 PST, KPFA [Berkeley, CA] > Special Broadcast: Impeachment Proceedings Live. N.B.: KPFA has not made this broadcast available as an mp3 download. So, listen now, ‘cos we wouldn’t put it past admin to delete soon.  KPFA archive summary: 

House Impeachment Proceedings LiveDirect from the US House of Representatives, KPFA brings you the proceedings on a vote to impeach President Donald Trump, with hosts Brian Edwards-Tiekert and Mitch Jeserich.

Guests:

Karen Greenberg is the Director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University School of Law. She is the author of several books and the host of Vital Interests Podcast dedicated to issues of governance, law and policy.

Brenda Wineapple is the author of several books including The impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation.

Alan Hirsch Chair of Justice and Law Studies at Williams College and author of the book Impeaching the President: Past, Present and Future.

14:00 PST, KPFA > Voices of the Middle East. On the Kurdish people’s struggle for self-determination. [TW]

14:00 PST, KPFK > 14:16 PST, Lawyer’s Guild Show. “There were no marshalls.”  14:19 PST, speaker suggested there was no permit.  This contradicts what another expert said earlier this week on Pacifica Radio, who said that the wife of a Republican politician got a permit. That same Republican woman also reported that she said it would be a woman’s group, who would be demonstrating. So, Capitol Police were expecting a woman’s group, not arm3d men. Granted, that analyst was FBI.

14:00 PST, WBAI > 14:50 PST, local politics (NYC); Brad Lander.

15:00 PST, KPFK [L.A.] > Covid, Race, & Democracy with Ann Garrison. Audio of protesters on the ground at January 6th, actually rings true. But they’re misguided placing their working class hopes on #45. 15:10 PST, Dr. Gerald Horn [TW].  15:38 PST, [TW] “the seditious conspirators are still there. They are still in power.”  […]  And clearly the speech […] was an incitement to insurrection.”  […]  “So, this is very serious.”  […]  “This was a coup de tat.” ‘The liberal, or bourgeois media is not owning up to this. They’re not admitting it. Also, it is clear that there was a stand-down order. And the Dems are completely feckless.’ […]  ‘It was a coup de tat in plain sight.’  […]  The Democrats have lulled us into a false sense of security.’ 15:43 PST, “We need people taking to the streets now!” ‘We haven’t seen the end of this.’  We have Cruz, Holly, and 137 members…  ‘He now controls the 6,000 national guard out in DC’  — snip —  Musical break: Steel Pulse – “Ku Klux Klan

15:00 > KPFK > Covid, Race, & Democracy. 15:46 PST, Ann Garrison > Heather Gray(sp?) on H. Rapp Brown, political prisoner.

15:00 PST, WPFW > 15:59 PST, “My Umi Said” by Mos Def

15:00 PST, KPFA > Rising Up with Sonali Kolhatkar > On the 6th

16:00 PST, WPFW > The Uncle Devin Show > “family-friendly global beats” plus topical talk with an emphasis on underrepresented perspectives.

16:00 PST, WBAI > [TW] topical discussion on the events of January 6th. “the insurrection”  “the attempted coup”  [What else did America expect when MAGA hats, Trump flags, and “thin blue line” flags everywhere bolstered by years of incessant hate speech and draconian treatment of immigrants and ethnic minorities.]  Right-wing social media, Parlor(sp?). […] 16:17 PST, On the presidential use and abuse of Twitter for official government purposes; the consequences of socially conditioning the public to get used to having to literally becoming a “follower” of Trump on Twitter just to stay informed. […]  16:48 PST, on ‘tracking and monitoring right-wing extremist groups’.

16:00 PST, KPFK > Rising Up with Sonali Kolhatkar > on the 6th > 16:24 PST, Republicans are saying, Well, I’d love to vote to impeach Trump; but I’m afraid of the death threats from his ‘base’.  The Republicans don’t want Trump anymore, but they want to keep his voters. So, they’re trying to figure out how to get to that position.  Now, mind you, that’s basically a desire to get a bunch of voters, who support the same toxic, racist, chauvinist, and fascist ideologies, which Trump pursues.  So, it’s not saying much about the Republican Party that they want to rid themselves of Trump, but not of his ideologies. Guest was Derek Jeter (?), of The Nation.  16:30 PST, next topic… […]  16:43 PST, SK: ‘9/11 is the closest thing to this we can recall. Do we really need more domestic terror laws?  [No.]  Guest:  First, we need to investigate and address all the unanswered questions before we start moving to criminalize and punish dissent.  Well, that’s exactly what the Impeachment debate sounded like, fr both Dems and Repubs.  Alan Nairn pointed this out early on.  Warnings against cancel culture also warn against feeding into anti-First Amendment traps.

16:00 PST, KPFA [Berkeley, CA] > Hard Knock Radio > 16:33 PST, Host Anita Johnson talks to guest (a ranting “political science professor”, Dr. Taylor) on the phone about the events of January 6th; impeachment. “The only value that the 25th Amendment could have had is […]”.  16:36 PST, AJ: “Is this political theater?”  Prof:  ‘The 25th Amendment was a tactic to run out the clock.’ [TW]  ‘Black Congressional Caucus was trying to impeach 45 from day one. But white liberals looked at them, as if they were being black and radical, or hyperbolic. The prof said they were dismissed. Well, but then why didn’t the Black Congressional Caucus come to the people, rally their base, if they weren’t getting bipartisan support?  I don’t buy that, Prof.  He sounds like a Dem apologist there. […]  “Bernie bro racism.”  […]  AJ:  Why has Pence been so silent.  Dr. Taylor:  ‘I think he was rattled.’

17:00 PST, WPFW > 17:23 PST, R&B/Soul music

17:00 PST, WBAI > Explorations with Dr. Michio Kaku > 17:24 PST, on illegally copying other people’s genome to copy other people’s facial features. What about a black market for movie star faces?  What about mental abilities?

17:00 PST, KPFK > Background Briefing with Ian Masters > [TW] On the events of January 6th.  On the complicity of congress and reports of reconnaissance assistance to loyalists by congress members. 17:28 PST, on impeachment, and what about the trials of the arrestees? Meanwhile, there will be 400,000 dead Americans due to COVID-19. What will Biden do?

17:00 PST, KPFA > Flashpoints “Today on the Show: 24 million Yemenis at catastrophic humanitarian risk following new U.S. terrorist designations of Ansar Allah, according to The International Rescue Committee. Also Donald Trump impeached for the second time in thirteen months. We’ll speak to Harvey Wasserman Who just published the piece, “Hey MAGA Marchers: Where Was Trump As You Died?” And we will also open the phones to get your thoughts on the days historic events.” > 17:32 PST, ‘This is another argument for DC statehood.’ [TW]  Greg Palast reporting ‘Ali Alexander is now in hiding. And authorities seem to want to know what he knows about congress complicity. If that mob would’ve happened on AOC or Pelosi, that mob would’ve killed them.  No question. Trump must go to prison. You can see the pictures of the gallows… Harvey Wasserman.

18:00 PST, KPFA & KPFK (simulcast) > Pacifica Evening News. [TW]  Trump impeachment. Weaponizing the U.S. Census. Death penalty.  18:10 PST, ’10 Republicans joined Dems in voting for impeachment.’ — snip —  18:43 PST, ‘rent relief is helpful, but not enough. Corporate landlords have been bragging how much richer they’ve gotten since the pandemic. ‘ AB71 and the houselessness problem.  $23.4B for California economy and construction jobs, for projects to benefit houseless people 18:52 PST, Prop 22 & AB5. Labor protection for ‘gig’ workers. 18:55 PST, Google joins Alphabet Union. But it’s affiliated with the CWA, which sold out the UnPaid Workers Organization (UPSO) at KPFA.

18:00 PST, WPFW > 18:05 PST, “Here I Go Again” by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

18:00 PST, WBAI > talk, lady explains why she joined “DSA” and became an activist…

19:00 – 20:00 PST, KPFA > Bay Native Circle. Bill Means, latest on Leonard Peltier, and the 6th. “white privilege”.  19:05 PST, listening to Bill Means, it occurs to me that the events of January 6th were an example of police harassment and brutality of Congress. snip —  19:22 PST, Lenny Foster with the latest on Leonard Peltier.

19:00 PST, WPFW > 19:10 PST, jazz

19:00 PST, WBAI > 19:11 PST, “Street Life” by Rose Royce

19:00 PST, KPFK > Covid, Race, & Democracy. 19:14 PST, Ann Garrison. Max Blumenthal.

20:00 PST, KPFK > news/noticias (español), anchor Fernando Velazquez.  — snip —  20:12 PST, good point: despite the antisemitic narrative being peddled via ‘Q-Anon’, US has a special alliance with Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine. Oh, the irony. 20:20 PST, Iran officials blasted the US. Look, they said, the U.S. was trying to push us around. And now they have fallen so low. 20:25 PST, China.

20:00 PST, KPFA > Dead to the World. Grateful Dead music.

20:00 PST, WPFW > music

20:00 PST, WBAI > music

20:30 PST, KPFK > culture & politics (español)

[These are my raw notes, which will be edited, revised, and expanded as time constraints allow.]

Thank you for reading Lumpenproletariat. Solidarity.

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[13 JAN 2021]

[Last modified on 13 JAN 2021 at 20:44 PST]

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