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Day Nine | The Fascist Events of January 6th

14 Thu Jan 2021

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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.

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[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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Day Eight | Right-Wing Fascist Alliance Lynch Mob Violence

13 Wed Jan 2021

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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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Day Seven | Antidemocratic Right-wing Alliance Violence

12 Tue Jan 2021

Posted by ztnh in Anti-Fascism, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-Racism, Anti-Totalitarianism, Civic Engagement (Activism), COVID-19, Democratic Party (USA), First Amendment (U.S. Constitution), Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press, Government, Memoirs, Police State, Political Science, Presidential Election 2020, Racism (phenotype), Republican Party (USA)

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LUMPENPROLETARIAT—This election is a disaster.  Facebook has now banned the Trump loyalist slogan, “Stop The Steal.”  Presumably, the idea is to protect Biden’s victory.  Instead, the effect will be to rein

force the belief among the loyalists that they’re being cheated.  Censorship never helps.  Censoring the loyalists will only further erode the First Amendment. Next time, Facebook will censor other political slogans.  If we condone censorship against one, we injure all.  The answer to unwise speech is more wise speech, not censorship.

Now is a time for learning about how best to deal with malignant narcissists.

People of color & the poor have harbored & internalized excessive shame, such that it’s rendered us defenseless.

Meanwhile, white supremacists have been shame deficient, sin-verguenzas.

Shame evil.

Messina

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Here’s what people have been saying today about the Events of January 6th and more.  Well, I hope to write about what America has been saying, what I’ve been hearing, what people have been thinking, and adding any relevant personal perspectives.  But I am not a leisure class American; I am a working class American. So, my time is limited, as is my cognitive capacity.  I am not the smartest, or the dumbest. But I always aim to be the hardest worker I can be.  For now, these are my notes, which will serve my future scholarship.  If they help you help America be better, good.  If not, I always appreciate constructive criticism.

Solidarity.

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Free speech radio notebook:

05:00 – 0600 PST, Rising Up >[TW] On the events of January 6th.

05:00 PST, Something’s Hapening >TW 6th Tom Hartmann(rerun).  Free speech. Make your voice heard. Call congress they’ll transfer you to any representative. Call all 3 of your members, 202.224-3121.  0510 thought police. Recall 1996 clinton telecom act led to megamergers. ‘Thaddeus, section 3’ 0520, its also what happened in the ’60s when j edgar hoover decided to take out martin Luther King, said Tom Hartman, former SDSer. TH read the article of impeachment against Trump. 0526, TW, on the standown.  0527, next caller, official statement said the 6th was a ‘First Amendment protest’. Hans Morgenthau book on balance of power tw ryan mcarthy et al are inside, cf military times, army times, et al 0538, tw, ted cruz uses meyers briggs tests on his followers . 0542, r d wolff (jan 7?) Robert reich (11JAN21)

0500 – 0600 WPFW & WBAI (simulcast), 0549 PST, WPFW > DN!

0600, KPFK Stephanie Miller Show, FBI agent Frank, who’s doing the media rounds

0600 wpfw tw iran Venezuela sanctions, alliance of nations under siege by US imperialism

0600 KPFA DN!

06:00 PST, WBAI > 06:13 PST, medical psychiatrist will discuss his observations of Trump. 0627 PST, narcissistic abuser traits ‘70,000 physicians felt Trump was a threat’, warned via NY Times article. Broad categories of behavior, such as grandiosity, problems with reality testing, narcissistic spectra, psychotic, pathological liar.  This article was not intended to be a diagnosis. But, evidently, it was dismissed without further inquiry on those fallacious grounds.

0700 KPFA > 0715, dems need 17 repubs. But dems ain’t never been able to persuade that many dems to do something they didn’t already want to do. BET: phone call transcript, ‘it was AntiFa. I was there’.  07:57 PST, BET talks to guest Felicia Ankofer(sp?) (Public Health Advocates) on various topics, incl. “recall effort” against Gov. Gavin Newsom. 0801, News. Later, more on the 6th.

07:00 PST, WPFW > Crossroads with Roach Brown, 0727, re: Sundiata Acoli, Prison Squire # 39794-066 FCI Cumberland Maryland.  Don’t put anything in your letter to him because  he never receives those.  White envelope, white blank paper (no lines), write in black. Letter will be read by prison officials. ‘If you’re worried about the government, they already know who you are.’  They have a file. But we get to control, barring abuses of power, what goes in that file.  So, you have freedom of speech, just watch what you say because the fascist deep state is looking for any excuse to persecute dissent.

07:00 PST, WBAI > 07:30 PST > Green Street Radio with Doug and Patti Wood. > 07:45 PST, overuse of glyphosate, biodiversity impacts, eg, monarch butterflies. Toxis residues are being found in honey.

07:00 PST, KPFK > Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod > 07:53 PST, Marjorie Cohn(sp?) on the events of January 6th…

08:00 PST, KPFK > Democracy Now!

0800 – 08:30 PST, WPFW > News [TW] citing experts

0800 PST > 0830 > WBAI TW

1044 TW wbai Leonard Lopate Show

1102, wbai > health, covid

11:00 PST, WPFW > 11:10, talk; woman (guest).

1100 > kpfa > 1120, Kris Welch vs Andrew Baicevich.

1100 > wpfw > 1122, talk. Youth program. Black History Month program.  1141, arts program and venue.

Kpfk > talk. Health. Emf

12:00 PST, KPFA [Berkeley, CA] > Against the Grain. “The Political Uses of Shame. https://kpfa.org/episode/against-the-grain-january-12-2021/

13:00 PST, KPFA, The Herbal Highway.  native american critique of the english language

1300 wbai > DN! [TW] 6th > pretty good summary of neoliberalism 13:30, [TW]

13:00 PST, WPFW > Cuban-style music

13:00 PST, KPFK > emotions, mindfulness, gratitude, “Woody”, loss, “He’s in a better place.” Michael.

14:00 – 15:00 PST, WBAI > (rerun) Brent Michael Phillips on health

14:00 – 15:00 PST, WPFW > Live at Five, live music in-studio

14:00 PST, KPFK > Feminist Magazine with Women’s Collective, Operation Period, “western savior complex”, “menstrual equity”, “menstrual freedom”, Scotland case study. They also related feminist topics to the events of January 6th.  Author Jane Ward, PhD (The Tragedy of Heterosexuality) said feminist concepts are now understood as real, eg women being manipulated toward sex, then being “slut-shamed”, if receptive. But when the concepts were seen as valid, men picked them up, but to sell lothario coaching.

14:00 PST, KPFA > the written word

15:00 PST, KPFK > [TW] talk, on the events of January 6th and the state of the nation.  ‘On Dec 26, Trump basically nullified a Civil Rights Act.’

15:00 PST, KPFA > Rising Up with Sonali Kolhatkar. [TW]  On the events of January 6th. 1530, guest Melissa Figueroa (PhD candidate), ‘the fact that accountability for the insurrection attempt is being debated in Congress is the very definition of privilege.’  It’s also an indication of the collusion between Dems and Repubs, the two-party dictatorship.

15:35 PST, WBAI [NYC] > Radio Gag [TW] 1546, ‘They’re at war with the word ‘liberal’.’  Indeed, but not just the center, the entire left.

[Apologies for publishing my raw notes; we take great pride in hard work and craftsmanship. But you are literally looking at my personal journal.  Raw notes will be expanded and edited as time constraints allow.  Please help monitor right-wing media as well. But we all need to do our part to call out injustice and contribute to public dialogue and reason, but also peaceful advocacy. Please leave your comments below. Thank you for supporting citizen journalism. –Messina]

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[12 JAN 2021]

[Last modified on 12 JAN 2021 at 04:04 PST]

[TW = transcript pending volunteer labor; please reach out or leave a comment, if you would like to volunteer with transcripts; these transcripts have been used in published books, and cited by various sources online, including Wikipedia. So, it’s crucial we all contribute to the common stock of knowledge toward the emancipation of humanity.

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