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

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.

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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The Keiser Report: Free Money to the People

10 Sat Oct 2020

Posted by ztnh in Macroeconomic Analysis, Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), Philosophy, Political Economy

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Dr. Zeus Yiamouyiannis, MMT, Modern Monetary Theory, Modern Money Theory, RT, Stacey Herbert, Steve Keen (b. 1953), The Keiser Report, Timothy Maxwell "Max" Keiser (b. 1960)

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LUMPENPROLETARIAT—Economist types have the most interesting perspectives on the world.  Don’t they?  Although I don’t always agree with everything Max Keiser says on The Keiser Report, having casually followed his work and ideas over the years. At the very least, I trust that he knows his shit.  The guy is a serious financial market investor and analyst, who brings real world financial market experience to bear on his economic analyses. And he has a sense of humor, which is a plus.

Max Keiser and (spouse) Stacey Herbert present decent politics because they seem to ‘fight for the little guy, or little gal‘, instead of simply deifying Wall Street and stock markets without regard for labor. Perhaps, it’s wishful thinking, but one gets a sense of preferential treatment for the poor in the editorial slant. 

At any rate, The Keiser Report, is a useful tool for working class folks, and/or non-economist types, to better understand economics and financial markets.  And it offers cool guests, like Dr. Zeus Yiamouyiannis (yah-meh-yahniss), an economics blogger and educator, who advanced a labor theory of value at one point in the discussion about the current state of the western post-lockdown economies.  Imagine that!  The labor theory of value is still being used in public discourse on major media platforms in 2020.  Of course, Max Keiser played devil’s advocate by suggesting a purely “subjective theory of value”.  But it’s always cool to see Dr. Karl Marx continue to be relevant and useful to understanding our world in the present day.

In the opening segment of The Keiser Report, “Free Money to the People”, E1602 (6 OCT 2020), Stacey brought up the increasing relevance of MMT (modern monetary theory) as the deficit myth becomes ever more exposed to the general public.  They cited their earlier Keiser Report coverage of MMT going back to circa 2009 Steve Keen interviews.  Max and Stacey offered their perspectives on how the evolution of public understanding of MMT will affect public economic wellbeing, as ongoing debates in Congress continue over the size and scope of any further economic cash aid to American families and households in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak and police state response and economic lockdown, which disproportionately harmed working class and poor people. And, of course, the U.S. government doesn’t give preferential treatment to small businesses or small landlords, but is willing to bail out big business and large landlords, such as Blackstone, who would stand to lose from any bans on evictions or foreclosures.

STACEY HERBERT (c. 2:53): “Right. Well, that is what we have been doing here for the past eleven years at The Keiser Report, looking at the sinking of the ‘Central-Bank-Fiat’ Titanic.

“And here is a headline along these same lines, where we’re looking at the threat of a ban on eviction and foreclosures. Well, on the one hand, you’re saying, ‘Well, Blackstone is now one of the largest private landlords in America. So, ha-ha to them! But, you know, on the other hand, the Fed has their back, has Blackstone’s back. They get to dump their bad debts, like all these foreclosures, that aren’t allowed to happen, and Blackstone is the largest private landholder, they’ll be able to dump it on the Fed’s balance sheet.

“So, you know, Schwarzman at Blackstone will never have to pay for this. But the small landlords will pay for that.

“Here, we’re looking at the difference between the big and the small, why we have the rising wealth and income gap. And it looks like the Fed is starting to notice this. And their answer is what the people have been demanding—MMT, modern monetary theory—that, if you could print money for the banks, why not for us?

“And I want to add that one of our first episodes ever, the first five episodes of Keiser Report, we spoke to Steve Keen in 2009. And he said that we should have quantitative easing for the people, rather than for the banks. And this is what it looks like the Fed is gonna get ready to do.

“What’s behind the Fed’s project to send free money to people directly?

So, on September 23rd, the Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester spoke. She, basically, flagged that something called the Central Bank Digital Currency is coming.

Stacey Herbert, The Keiser Report, “Free Money to the People”, E1602

In the second half, Max Keiser and Dr. Zeus discussed notions of economic nihilism manifested as growing inequality and diminishing quality of life for a growing number of people, as an increasingly diminishing number of people capture and horde a growing amount of wealth. Evidently, economic nihilism is diagnosed when diagnoses of economic fraud and financial fraud have gone unheeded for too long, as hamstrung white collar criminologists, such as Prof. William K. Black, and financial regulators have been cut back since President Clinton’s “Reinventing Government” initiatives, which weakened financial regulations leading to the 2007/2008 Global Financial Crisis. The recent case of JP Morgan is cited by Max Keiser, providing evidence substantiating Dr. Zeus’s arguments.

MAX KEISER:  “So, in the case of JP Morgan, who we talk about on this show often—Jaime Dimon, who heads […] that bank—they recently agreed to pay a $1 billion dollar fine. They avoided criminal racketeering charges for rigging precious metals markets for over a decade.

“They were reportedly earning $250 million dollars annually in profits on their gold price rigging.  So, it looks like they returned under half the money, that they stole. 

“So, you would put that under the category of existential nihilism.”

DR. ZEUS YIAMOUYIANNIS:  “Absolutely.”

Messina

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  • Channel: RT
  • Program: The Keiser Report, “Free Money to the People”, E1602
  • Date: 6 OCT 2020

[Transcript excerpts by Messina for Lumpenproletariat and The Keiser Report]

Keiser Report: All that was hidden is being revealed - RT | Lyssna här |  Poddtoppen.se

THE KEISER REPORT—Hi. I’m Max Keiser. This is The Keiser Report. First of all, a big thank you to RT espanol. All of our shows are dubbed into Spanish.

—snip—

STACEY HERBERT: (c. 2:53) “Right. Well, that is what we have been doing here for the past eleven years at The Keiser Report, looking at the sinking of the ‘Central-Bank-Fiat’ Titanic.

“And here is a headline along these same lines, where we’re looking at the threat of a ban on eviction and foreclosures. Well, on the one hand, you’re saying, ‘Well, Blackstone is now one of the largest private landlords in America. So, ha-ha to them! But, you know, on the other hand, the Fed has their back, has Blackstone’s back. They get to dump their bad debts, like all these foreclosures, that aren’t allowed to happen, and Blackstone is the largest private landholder, they’ll be able to dump it on the Fed’s balance sheet.

“So, you know, Schwarzman at Blackstone will never have to pay for this. But the small landlords will pay for that.

“Here, we’re looking at the difference between the big and the small, why we have the rising wealth and income gap. And it looks like the Fed is starting to notice this. And their answer is what the people have been demanding—MMT, modern monetary theory—that, if you could print money for the banks, why not for us?

“And I want to add that one of our first episodes ever, the first five episodes of Keiser Report, we spoke to Steve Keen in 2009. And he said that we should have quantitative easing for the people, rather than for the banks. And this is what it looks like the Fed is gonna get ready to do.

“What’s behind the Fed’s project to send free money to people directly?”

—snip—

MAX KEISER:  (c. 18:44)  “I believe one of the terms, that you use […] is the term nihilism.  So, you use that term.  And explain how you use that in your essay.”

DR. ZEUS YIAMOUYIANNIS:  “Nihilism simply means to me: If you followed it to its next logical extent, where would it end up?  It would end up in nothing.  Right?  […]

“So, if we’re gonna follow this program of hyperconcentration of wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer people, what’s gonna happen to our freedom?  What’s gonna happen to our creativity?  What’s gonna happen to our quality of life?  All these things, we truly value and become values.

“So, if you follow where we’re going right  now, we end in nihilism, in economic nihilism, and to a certain extent existential nihilism.  You know, from a philosophic standpoint, it’s like where value simply becomes us becoming slaves to somebody else’s notion of getting another number on their balance sheet.

“That’s not the kind of future I want to have.  I don’t think it’s the future you want to have.  So, the nihilism term, I think, is a bit of a warning as well as a descriptor of where we’re heading, if we continue along this line.” (c. 20:04)

MAX KEISER:  “So, in the case of JP Morgan, who we talk about on this show often—Jaime Dimon, who heads that up, that bank—they recently agreed to pay a $1 billion dollar fine. They avoided criminal racketeering charges for rigging precious metals markets for over a decade.

“They were reportedly earning $250 million dollars annually  in profits on their gold price rigging.  So, it looks like they returned under half the money, that they stole. 

“So, you would put that under the category of existential nihilism.”

DR. ZEUS YIAMOUYIANNIS:  “Absolutely.”

—snip—

[Transcript will be expanded as time and/or resource constraints allow. Cheers. Solidarity.]

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[12 OCT 2020]

[Last modified on 14 OCT 2020 at 06:21 PDT]

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Historical Archives: Police State Brutality: The Story of Kenneth Harding

20 Mon Apr 2015

Posted by ztnh in Democracy Deferred, Free Speech, Historical Archives

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Abby Martin, Alexa O'Brien (US Day of Rage), Bonnie Faulkner, Breaking the Set, Democrat Party, Dennis Bernstein, Felipe Messina (Media Roots), KPFA, Michael Hudson, Nora Barrows Friedman, Occupy Wall Street, Pacifica Radio, Ralph Nader, RT, UMKC

LUMPENPROLETARIAT—This article was originally published at MediaRoots.org on 27 JAN 2012.  We have tried to archive it here at Lumpenproletariat.org.  Unfortunately, it seems to have been deleted.  Unless MediaRoots have dramatically changed their politics since 2013, when we last spoke with Abby Martin[*], we doubt they have deleted the article.  Unfortunately, we’ve lost contact with MediaRoots since Abby went to work for RT.

We will work to re-establish contact with Abby to recover as many of Messina’s articles for safe archival and preservation at Lumpenproletariat.org.  (Otherwise, we will have to reconstruct—after final exams—a historical report of the brutal killing of Kenneth Harding by SFPD police.  Warning:  Video of Kenneth Harding’s murder, at the very bottom of article, by SFPD in San Francisco’s Bay View Hunter’s Point district is very graphic.)

-Lumpenproletariat

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MEDIA ROOTS—You’ve likely heard of Scott Olsen, the Iraq War veteran shot in the head by a police tear gas canister at point blank range during the nationwide crackdown on the Occupy Movement. The tragic event transformed him into an international symbol of police brutality, and it continues to be an important story signifying state repression. Yet, you …

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“Press Conference: SFPD killing of Kenneth Harding“

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“Muni Shutdown Kenneth Harding Jr. Vigil – Alana Turner 7/16/12“

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[*] I haven’t spoken with Abby since I left for university (or scarcely any human beings, given the academic isolation of the proverbial academic reading room).

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