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Day Six | Antidemocratic Right-wing Alliance Violence Aftermath

13 Wed 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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Donald John Trump (b. 1946), KPFA, KPFK, Pacifica Radio Network, RT, WBAI, WPFW

LUMPENPROLETARIAT—[12 JAN 2021] 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.

Download the Pacifica Radio App for easy access to some of the best free speech radio around, featuring voices of reason dedicated to the mutual understanding between groups.

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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Lockdown TV | Glenn Greenwald: Big Tech Is Censoring COVID-19 & Political Debate

28 Mon Dec 2020

Posted by ztnh in Anti-Fascism, Anti-Totalitarianism, Civic Engagement (Activism), Democratic Party (USA), Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press, Political Science, Presidential Election 2016, Presidential Election 2020, Republican Party (USA)

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COVID-19, Dr. Glenn Greenwald (b. 1967), Freddie Sayers, Lockdown TV, UnHerd

LUMPENPROLETARIAT—The lack of public scientific and policy debate around COVID-19 science and policy responses is ever shocking to those of us paying attention to the unfolding viral outbreak. Glenn Greenwald articulates eloquently the very real dangers to our open society, of which many of us are ignoring or completely unaware.  We have recklessly made sweeping sacrifices to civil liberties and handed over authoritarian powers to the state in the American slipshod state response to the viral outbreak. So, it’s a welcome discussion when Lockdown TV host Freddie Sayers engages in a healthy reality check with Glenn Greenwald. Lockdown TV can be viewed on the UnHerd YouTube channel.

YouTube > UnHerd > Lockdown TV > Freddie Sayers > Glen Greenwald > Big Tech Censorship

Beyond COVID-19 debate censorship by big tech corporations in Silicon Valley, such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, Sayers and Greenwald discussed their respective experiences with censorship in the recent past. Greenwald had to leave The Intercept, which he co-founded due to censorship issues. And Sayers mentioned how their viewers alerted UnHerd that some of their more controversial videos were being downgraded in the search results by the YouTube algorithm. One video was taken down completely. UnHerd was able to make enough noise due to having a large following of support to have their video put back up by YouTube. Similarly, Greenwald mentioned recently defending an African-American communist on Twitter with a following of about 30,000 people, who had his Twitter account arbitrarily suspended. Evidently, Twitter decided he didn’t deserve free speech because they disagreed with his politics. But Glenn Greenwald has a big enough platform/following that he was able to get his fellow Twitter colleague’s account restored.  But this amounts to a system of patronage, a corrupt political patronage, where the only thing that matters is connections.  If you have a connection to the ruling class, somehow, you get a pass.  Both Sayers and Greenwald point out that it shouldn’t have to be this way.

Social media platforms, such as Twitter, are essential to journalism. Censoring users to stifle political diversity is antidemocratic. But big tech is doing just that, and by their own admission, explained Greenwald. Once monopolistic institutions reach a particular critical mass, it’s safe to say, for all intents and purposes, they have become a part of the commons.

How long will we allow the commons to be dominated antidemocratic forces?

Messina

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[4 JAN 2021]

[Last modified on 4 JAN 2021 at 10:00 PST]

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TJDS: “Glenn Greenwald – The Complete Interview!”

24 Tue Nov 2020

Posted by ztnh in Anti-Fascism, Anti-Totalitarianism, Brazil, Civic Engagement (Activism), Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press, Presidential Election 2020

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Dr. Glenn Greenwald (b. 1967), The Jimmy Dore Show

LUMPENPROLETARIAT—Oh, dang. Two men, who pull no punches. One brings a legal background, the other a comedic background. This is gonna be good. Let’s listen, learn, critique, discuss. Please leave your comments below. Cheers.

Messina

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Featured video: “Glenn Greenwald: The Complete Interview!” by The Jimmy Dore Show, posted 23 NOV 2020, accessed 24 NOV 2020, https://youtu.be/K_xmYwr6qt8

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NOTES:

One of the first topics discussed was censorship of media and alternative perspectives. Liberals, argued Greenwald and Dore, pick on easy right-wing targets, like Alex Jones, for censorship. But those liberals fail to realize the institutional abuse of power never stops there. Eventually, everyone is censored, if we allow censorship to begin.

Holy shit. Glenn Greenwald seemed to confirm what Alexa O’ Brien said to me during the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations: “The culture wars are over. Everyone lost.” It’s just taking some of us longer to realize this, to perceive this fact. The capitalist rulers not only hate the left, they hate the right, too. All opposition to the elite rule is being targeted for censorship.

Glenn Greenwald pointed out that a big contributing factor to Biden’s presidential win is the fact that many Republicans drifted over to the Democrat Party, having recognized that the Democrat Party is now, without a doubt, the party of corporate power. If we are Democrats disappointed in corruption in the Democrat Party, we just can’t forget the Republican Party is also a corrupt handmaiden to corporate power, too. The answer isn’t to swing pendulum-like between two sides of a two-party dictatorship, it’s to expand party politics. Jimmy Dore talked about his past efforts to help build a third party movement. Many of us go back to the years of Ralph Nader, or further. At some point, we have to admit this dictatorship we live under is antidemocratic and does not allow any competition a chance to grow.

(c. 24:23) Jimmy Dore asks Glenn Greenwald about the longstanding problem with the misguided belief that progressive reformers within the Democrat Party will be able to capture the party from the left, which has never worked in the USA since the Second Red Scare and McCarthyism vilified, criminalized, and witch-hunted leftists after WWII. And, worse, as Jimmy Dore points out, having ostensibly leftist reformers within the Democrat Party, such as the Squad, creates a false sense of opposition among Democrats. Yet, the evidence proves that the Democrat Party is not a sincere opposition party to the Republican Party.

(c. 37:15)

(c. 39:05) On Greenwald’s resignation from The Intercept over censorship issues.

(c. 1:01:49) On Greenwald’s abandoned friendships with Rachel Maddow, Chris Hays, and the topic of “cognitive capture”

[notes will be expanded as time constraints allow… cheers…]

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[24 NOV 2020]

[Last modified on 24 NOV 2020 at 14:19 PST]

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