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Thursday, May 22, 2025

Will Trump survive 5/27? (The Simpsons)


Can The Simpsons really predict the future? No. When has it ever? Yeah, well, except for those times, but that was pure coincidence, luck of the draw, and anyone could have seen those things coming. Why should this be any different? The King is well-fed; long live the King!

Monday, May 19, 2025

Hitler Junior: Path to Democracy (4/20)


After Hitler: The Path to [Phony] Democracy
(DW History and Culture) April 20, 2025: [Ah, the myths we spin and repeat. Idi Amin killed many more than Hitler, but no one mentions him because he was not promoting white supremacy or an Aryan "race" in doing it.] Today (4/20) is Adolf Hitler's birthday, so let's look back a little.

Did Al Gore just compare Don Trunf to Hitler?
  • 00:00 Introduction
  • 00:50 (Title) After Hitler: The Path to Democracy
  • 01:04 Germany at the beginning of 1945
  • 04:48 Prescribed Democracy - a recipe for success?
  • 10:46 DeNazification - a new beginning?
  • 13:54 Learnings from the past
With the invasion of neighboring Poland by the German armed forces in the fall of 1939, Germany ignited the Second World War. Six years of murder, destruction, expulsion and hunger shaped the fate of people in many parts of the world. In May 1945, the guns fell silent in Europe. Germany was allegedly defeated [except for those who traveled to New Swabia in the Antarctic and Argentina to live on, possibly still pulling strings and the levers of power].


It was an end and a beginning at the same time. But how did the political, social, and economic reconstruction take shape in post-war Germany? How did a dictatorship become a democracy? DW looks at the first years after the end of the war -- and the long road towards a new political order. #dwhistoryandculture.

For more visit: dw.com/en/culture/s-1441. Follow DW's netiquette: p.dw.com/p/MF1G

Monday, March 31, 2025

Trump wants 3rd term as president (TDS)


Jon Stewart on Trump’s third term plans and Signalgate lack of accountability | The Daily Show
(The Daily Show) March 31, 2025  #DailyShow #JonStewart #Trump Jon Stewart checks in on the state of democracy after Trump considers an unconstitutional third term in office, then takes a look at how all the national security officials involved in Signalgate have managed to skirt any accountability and keep their jobs, all while thousands of hard-working government employees lose theirs in DOGE layoffs. #DailyShow #JonStewart #Trump

Sunday, March 23, 2025

Give me LIBERTY or give me death



250th anniversary of Patrick Henry's "Liberty or Death" speech
(Historic St. John's Church) Ten years ago on March 23, 2015: RICHMOND. On March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, Patrick Henry delivered his Liberty or Death speech at the 2nd Virginia Convention.

Among the 120 delegates in attendance were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Robert Carter Nicholas, and other.

Henry was a superb orator who spoke extemporaneously. One aspect of Henry’s genius was that he was able to take ideas and phrases that were part of the intellectual life of the colonies and put them into eloquent words and persuasive arguments. There is no written record of this speech. It was not until William Wirt, Henry’s first biographer, published Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry in 1817 that a reconstruction of the speech was printed.


Hindus (Vedic Brahmins) do not understand what Buddhism means by moksha (liberation, freedom). By shunyata, or "emptiness," is not meant "nothing." What is meant is no self, that ultimately there is no separate "self." This can mean self is all-one with everything, indistinguishable from the environment, but the point is that it means everything is impersonal. It is not-self. There is no ego. The personality is an impermanent flux.

Based on the recollections of men who had been present when the speech was made, the main source was a lengthy letter that St. George Tucker wrote relating his memories of the speech. Some scholars attribute the version of the speech commonly known to Tucker, but there are other firsthand accounts that characterize Henry’s speech in a similar manner, giving weight to Tucker’s memories of the words that Henry spoke.

James Parker, a Norfolk merchant who talked with delegates after the convention, wrote a letter on April 6, 1775, that describes Henry’s speech as “infamously insolent” and repeats that
  • Henry referred to the king as “a tyrant, a fool, a puppet, and a tool to the ministry,
  • said there was now no Englishmen, no Scots, no Britons, but a set of wretches sunk in luxury,
  • they had lost their natural courage and
  • [were] unable to look the brave Americans in the face.”
Edmund Randolph, in a history of Virginia that he wrote in the early 19th century, recalled that Henry “with indignation ridiculed the idea of peace ‘when there is no peace.’”

The language reflected in these descriptions of Henry’s speech is similar to that which William Wirt included in his reconstruction. Henry’s speech was powerful and carried the resolutions in a close vote.

The convention journal does not record the actual vote, but Parker wrote that the resolution was “carried by a Majority of 65 to 60.”

The convention records indicate that only 118 delegates were likely present that day. The vote was close, and the resolution passed by a narrow margin.

#patrickhenry #ThomasJefferson #GeorgeWashington #american #Richmond #Virginia #St.JohnsEpiscopalChurch #Nationalhistoriclandmark #HistoricStJohnsChurch www.historicstjohnschurch.org #libertyordeath #givemelibertyorgivemedeath

Monday, January 6, 2025

Jon Stewart on The Daily Show '25


Jon Stewart unpacks the NOLA and CyberTruck attacks and an unusually civil Jan. 6th | The Daily Show

(The Daily Show) Jan. 6, 2025: Jon Stewart kicks off 2025 with an unusually civil Jan. 6th election certification by Kamala and Congress, and right-wing media's desperate attempts to make the Bourbon Street attack about immigration. Plus, Stewart unpacks the eerily normal digital footprints of recent American terrorists from the U.S. military and questions the internet's role in their alleged radicalizations. #DailyShow #JonStewart #Jan6

Thursday, October 17, 2024

To vote or not: Last Week Tonight (HBO)



There's still time to register to vote in this election. To request a vote by mail ballot, go to lavote.org or ocvote.org. And consider voting Green with Jill Stein (or anything but Donkey and Elephant) because the country needs a viable third party option, which the Uniparty (with its two wings, blue and red) is united in keeping out any real alternative. Go Libertarian. Do a write-in candidate (like Andrew D. Basiago).

Honest government ad | TRUMP 2024 🇺🇸🦅
(thejuicemedia) The "US government" has made an ad about the 2024 election, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative 👉 Dear US voters, check to see if still registered to vote: vote.org 🔹 Check the new voting laws in state by state: brennancenter.org/our-wor... 🔹 Volunteer to be a poll worker on election day: eac.gov/help-america-vote 🔹 Share this video. 🔹 Vote!

Election Subversion 2024: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
(LastWeekTonight) Oct. 17, 2024: John Oliver discusses the attempts made by Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters to undermine the upcoming election, what we can expect after election night, and the greatest “I voted” sticker of all time.

Connect with Last Week Tonight online...on YouTube channel for more almost news as it almost happens (lastweektonight), on Facebook like your mom would (facebook.com/lastweektonight), on Twitter for news about jokes and jokes about news (twitter.com/lastweektonight), or visit official site for all that other stuff at once (hbo.com/lastweektonight).

Sunday, June 30, 2024

Jews against Jews: 'Prison over Army'


"Prison over Army" | Ultra-Orthodox Jews block roads over draft, rabbi warns of "more fatalities"
(CRUX) June 28, 2024: Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox men blocked a major highway in central Israel for two hours on Thursday (June 27, 2024), to protest a Supreme Court decision ordering young religious Jews to enlist for mandatory military service killing Arabs (Palestinians) for the glory of a future "Israel" (by destroying any and all remnants of Palestina. Military service is compulsory for most Jewish men and women in Israel. But politically powerful ultra-Orthodox parties have won exemptions for their followers to skip military service and instead study in religious seminaries or Yeshivas, dedicating themselves to their religion.
  • 0:00 Intro
  • 0:55 “To prison! Not to the army!”
  • 2:32 “If not for the Torah students, there would be many more fatalities...”
  • 4:05 Why ultra-Orthodox draft could topple Netanyahu [who is supported and kept in power currently by radically right wing ultra-Orthodox political figures in his coalition and cabinet.]
#GetCloserToTheNews #israelhamaswar #jews #israelhamaswar #israel #jews #haredi n18oc_world n18oc_crux

Thursday, June 6, 2024

India elects Modi: world's largest democracy

I admire Aryan Hitler, it's true, but I'm nothing like Trump. I don't know why people say so.

Indian elections: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Vote for me or there will be trouble. Namaskar.
(LastWeekTonight on HBO) June 6, 2024: John Oliver discusses the elections in India, the world's largest democracy and now the world's most populous country (now even bigger than Buddhist China), what Prime Minister (racist, nationalist dictator) Narendra Modi has been doing in office, what he might do next, and the proper way to eat a mango.

UPDATE: Narendra Modi has fearmongered and bribed his way into a third consecutive term. Trump must be very happy to hear it

Saturday, April 20, 2024

What Trump knew about his lost election


What did Trump know about 2020 election results? (Democracy on Trial: Pt. 3)
(FRONTLINE Short Docs) What did former President Trump know about the 2020 election results and when did he know it? That was a central question for the Jan. 6 Select Committee.

Donald Trump lost and knew he lost (rense.com)
Watch Part 3 of “Democracy on Trial.” In it, published here as a series of short docs, FRONTLINE investigates the roots of the federal criminal case against ex-Pres. Donald Trump, stemming from his 2020 election loss.

The investigation traces the road to this unprecedented moment and examines the implications of the historic criminal case unfolding in the midst of a presidential election year.

Drawing on court documents and revelatory interviews with elected officials, former government lawyers, House Select Committee witnesses, and former committee staffers, authors, and journalists, “Democracy on Trial” reports that the work of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6th Capitol attack provided the groundwork for special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump and may offer insights into how the trial unfolds.

A "confidence man is a "con man."
“Democracy on Trial” chronicles how the committee built its case against Trump and tried to prove his intent, how it chose to present its case to the American public, and criticisms of its work.

The documentary also examines how Trump has challenged the case. Trump has pleaded not guilty and made the legal argument, now being reviewed by an appellate court, that he has “absolute immunity” from prosecution for his actions while in office.

“Democracy on Trial” is a FRONTLINE production with the Kirk Documentary Group. The director is Michael Kirk. The producers are Michael Kirk, Mike Wiser, and Vanessa Fica. The writers are Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser. The reporters are Vanessa Fica and Brooke Nelson Alexander. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath. #Documentary #DonaldTrump #January6 Subscribe on YouTube: bit.ly/1BycsJW ​Instagram: frontlinepbs​ Twitter: frontlinepbs​ Facebook: frontline.

Explore additional reporting related to “Democracy on Trial" on the website: pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/doc...

(New-York Historical Society) Confidence Man with Maggie Haberman

The American Story with David M. Rubenstein, recorded May 13, 2023. Confidence Man with Maggie Haberman: How does a man like Donald Trump — simultaneously hailed as an all-American hero and condemned as a harbinger of the end of American democracy — become not only a cultural phenomenon, but the president of the United States? Maggie Haberman, the New York Times reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of the 45th president, offers insight into his background, his motivations, and the true nature of his personality, not to mention the means by which he gained a seat in the Oval Office. Maggie Haberman, a senior political correspondent for the New York Times and a political analyst for CNN, is the author of Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.

Why do so many Jews support con man Trump?
Moderator David M. Rubenstein is co-founder and co-chairman of the Carlyle Group [where G. H. Bush parked and built his fortune], is the author of How to Invest: Masters on the Craft and the host of History with David Rubenstein on PBS. For more about the New-York Historical Society, visit the website: nyhistory.org/ #history #newyorkhistoricalsociety

FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and is broadcast nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional support for FRONTLINE is provided by the Abrams Foundation, Park Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund, with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen. Additional support for this program is provided by the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation. #January6 #DonaldTrump #Documentary

Monday, March 11, 2024

Censorship Industrial Complex (Russ Brand)

Russell Brand, YouTube, March 9, 2024; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

He's EXPOSING The Deep State - “No one is ready for what’s coming in 2024”
(Russell Brand) March 9, 2024: The Establishment refers to the idea of a "Deep State" as a conspiracy theory. But here Mike Benz (whom readers may remember from his viral Tucker interview) educates Brand on the Deep State's very real and very troubling influence on US foreign policy, rampant censorship, and election rigging.

at the March 7, 2024, House Weaponization of the Federal Gov't hearing,

Watch Brand's interview with Tucker Carlson exclusively on Locals (bit.ly/TuckerCarlsonLocals). Support Russell Brand directly (rb.rumble.com). Watch LIVE weekdays on Rumble: bit.ly/russellbrand-rumble now that the mainstream media's cancel culture has put the kibosh on him and demonetized him on YouTube.

Monday, February 19, 2024

We need an alternative to vote for: RFK?

Robert F. Kennedy | Campaign HQ; Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Vote Andy Basiago for president
Clearly, no one wants a rematch of Biden and Trump. The country has had enough of these two.

But the parties (or the two wings of the one party, the Money Party) keep forcing these white geriatric patients on us.

This leaves us, the people or at least the population since "We The People" legally refers to something else though we are led to assume that's us, in need of an alternative.
Could that be RFK (Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.)? He's better than the other two, but rumor has it he fully pro-war, pro-Israel, pro-status quo for the Endless War economy, and we want a peace candidate, a Kucinich or Tulsi (if she hadn't become a disappointment).

What about Jill Stein in the Green Party? There's the new People's Party. Dr. Cornell West ended up being a big disappointment.

He's a serious candidate because of prophecy
Our real vote would love to go to lawyer Andrew D. Basiago, the disclosure candidate. But who knows if he's running this time (in this timeline) for us to vote for him. Somewhere in the universe, he will be president of the U.S. but maybe not here. Hear him out before laughing him off. We as a population are not yet advanced enough to believe him, and he can usher us forward.

So whaddya say, Democratic National Convention (DNC)?

Thursday, December 14, 2023

Jimmy Dore: The US Proxy War on Russia

Host Jimmy Dore, Mike MacRae, guests Due Dissidence, co-host Kurt Metzger (jimmydore.com); Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Genocidal Joe Biden CAN’T stop fearmongering Americans about Russia, Pres. Vlad Putin's "evil plans" to take over

Friday, July 21, 2023

CNN, Cornel West's third party, vaxxed

Jimmy Dore, Kurt Metzger (TJDS); Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

CNN melts down over Cornel West running third party
(The Jimmy Dore Show) July 23, 2023. Democratic Party Operative James Carville is VERY unhappy that Prof. Cornel West is running for the Green Party presidential nomination, as he tells CIA Operative Anderson Cooper.


Black Dr. West threatens to take votes away from Democrats (and Joey, Kamala, Hillary, Gavin...), just like Ralph Nader and Jill Stein are alleged to have done before him, Carville states without offering up any actual evidence of the claim.

He then redbaits, Russiagates, and misrepresents the Green Party’s actions in the 2016 election. Jimmy Dore and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger talk to Revolutionary Blackout Network’s Nick Cruse about. #TheJimmyDoreShow

Tuesday, July 18, 2023

The Illusion of Democracy: Who Really Controls our Lives?


The Illusion of Democracy: Who Really Controls our Lives?
(Best Documentary) July 7, 2023. ÉTATS-UNIS. Life is about choice. What we eat, what we read, who we elect, every day we [think we] make choices that determine how we want to live.

But what if these choices are just an illusion? In an era where regulations and red tape rule every industry, where lobby groups and big business wield more influence than ever before, our daily choices have become increasingly limited.

Focusing on key areas such as [GMO] food, pharmaceutical (allopathic) medicine, [Big Bank] finance, and [censored] media, Freedom from Choice provides viewers with a glimpse at the myriad of ways our lives are being dictated and tells us who stands to gain financially from this control.

Director: Tim Delmastro Full Documentary Original Title: Freedom from Choice (2014)

Sunday, August 21, 2022

Playboy king's lifestyle leads to Thailand riots


Inside the life of the Thai king who swapped his crown for a crop top tee-shirt
(60 Minutes Australia) "The King and Thai" (2020) presents a regal dilemma to consider: Is it right for a king with 70 million subjects and wealth in excess of 70 billion dollars to be seen frolicking around in a ridiculous crop top rather than a crown?

Many citizens of Thailand are outraged by the skimpy outfits their fresh monarch, King Vajiralongkorn, loves to wear. And they’re also furious at other aspects of his outlandish lifestyle – his womanizing, his alleged brutality, and the fact he seems to prefer the crisp air of the Bavarian Alps to the stifling humidity of the royal capital of Bangkok.

Tom Steinfort reports that there is also the small matter of Fufu, a pet poodle the king controversially appointed as the chief marshal of the Thai Air Force.
For 40 years, 60 Minutes has been telling Australians the world’s greatest stories, tales that changed history, the nation, and the lives of its citizens. Reporters Liz Hayes, Tom Steinfort, Tara Brown, Liam Bartlett, and Sarah Abo look past the headlines because there is always a bigger picture. Sundays are for 60 Minutes. #60MinutesAustralia Subscribe. Full episodes: 9now.app.link/uNP4qBkmN6.

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Magnificent History of Bhutan's Royal Family


The Magnificent History of Bhutan's Royal Family
(Real Royalty, Asia's Monarchies, March 20, 2021) Sponsored by Foxy Games, see more at bit.ly/3toNDjS. Bhutan's governing party pledged recently to follow the policies of the absolute monarchy it is replacing, after it won a landslide in the country's first parliamentary elections. This remote, beautiful country truly is in the throes of a noble experiment. What makes this experiment unique is that this move towards democracy has been initiated by the ruling monarch himself. From Elizabeth II to Cleopatra, Real Royalty peels back the curtain to give a glimpse into the lives of some of the most influential families in the world, with new full-length documentaries posted every week covering the monarchies of today and all throughout history.

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Friday, October 6, 2017

Spain gets its own Brexit: Catalonia

BBC.com; Seth Aubeorn, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Police moved in to prevent people voting in Sunday's disputed election (Getty Images)
Spain should crush Catalonia! - C. Columbus
CATALONIA - The Spanish government's representative in Catalonia has apologized to those injured during police efforts to stop Sunday's independence referendum.
 
But Enric Millo blamed the Catalan government for holding an "illegal" vote.
 
We're already like a police state. - Franco
Meanwhile, the government in Madrid has issued a decree making it easier for companies to move their headquarters away from Catalonia.
 
A Catalan minister told the BBC his government would go ahead with an independence debate in parliament.
 
Catalonia, like Portugal, is its own country
"Parliament will discuss, parliament will meet," said Catalan foreign affairs chief Raül Romeva.

"Every attempt the Spanish government has used to impede things to happen, they have been demonstrated completely not only useless but counter-productive," he told the BBC in English.
Catalonians proudly parade their flag
In the first apology by a Spanish government official over the violence on Sunday, which saw hundreds injured by police as police, trying to enforce a Spanish court ban on the vote, attempted to seize ballot boxes and disperse voters, Mr. Millo said he could not help but "regret it and apologize on behalf of the officers that intervened" [and legally beat the hell out of ~1,000 Catalonians trying to cast ballots in a democratic vote]. More + VIDEO

Monday, December 5, 2016

Jill Stein's protest at Trump Towers (video)

Seth Auberon, CC Liu, Pat Macpherson, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; SNL
And that Alec Baldwin guy is so not funny, SNL totally unwatchable... (WashPost)


Busy saving the world: Dr. Jill Stein in front of Trump Towers asking for recount (AP)
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Our choice for president, Dr. Jill Stein, MD, is keeping the fire under Trump and his billionaire administration, even as corrupt hypocrite Hillary Rodham Clinton -- who did all she could to destroy Bernie Sanders and his movement that could have stopped Trump -- sits this one out.



Racist Trump likes some blacks (AP)
After raising a great deal of money to demand a recount in key states, the powers that be through the judiciary put a stop to her efforts in one state. But progress continues in others. What to do now? Dr. Stein held a conference in front of Trump Towers in New York City to discuss her plans openly with full transparency. We would not have seen that with Clinton, and we're not likely to see it with Trump...unless perhaps he keeps tweeting like a mad man.

Green Party's Jill Stein demands recount

MADISON, Wisconsin (AP) - Presidential candidate Jill Stein's fight to force ballot recounts in three states focused Monday on Pennsylvania, where her Green Party was seeking an emergency federal court order for a statewide recount, and Michigan, where a hand recount began on the orders of a federal judge. [What's the use -- or, as turncoat Bernie says, "What difference does it make now?" -- is a question best answered by investigator Greg Palast in the movie The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.] More


Hillary Clinton's child molestation ring at pizza shop: "self-investigation" thwarted