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!
Showing posts with label democracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label democracy. Show all posts
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Monday, May 19, 2025
Hitler Junior: Path to Democracy (4/20)
After Hitler: The Path to [Phony] Democracy
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
- DW History and Culture, April 20, 2025; Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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
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Sunday, March 23, 2025
Give me LIBERTY or give me death
250th anniversary of Patrick Henry's "Liberty or Death" speech
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.”
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.
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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
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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)
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).
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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"
- 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
- Pro-Palestine Orthodox Jews against Israel (nkusa.org)
- IDF Veterans Against Genocide: breakingthesilence.org.il
- Jewish Voice for Peace (jvp.org)
- NOT IN OUR NAME! (ifnotnowmovement.org)
- شرش | Shoresh | שר”ש (@shoresh_us) • Anti-Zionist Jews
- Code Pink: Women for Peace
- American Veterans for Peace
Thursday, June 6, 2024
India elects Modi: world's largest democracy
Indian elections: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Vote for me or there will be trouble. Namaskar. |
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)
Donald Trump lost and knew he lost (rense.com) |
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
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Why do so many Jews support con man Trump? |
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
- PBS, FRONTLINE Short Docs, Feb. 16, 2024; Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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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”
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 |
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 |
So whaddya say, Democratic National Convention (DNC)?
- DNC chair says the idea of replacing Biden as the Democratic nominee and winning the presidential election is "certifiably crazy"
- Okay, that does it! We're voting Independent, Green, and boycotting, and attending peaceful protests and not-so-peaceful demonstrations! And we're attending meetings to form a third party (or second party, as the case may be).
- There’s obvious reason Biden isn’t dropping out of tied race
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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
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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
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
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Tuesday, July 18, 2023
The Illusion of Democracy: Who Really Controls our Lives?
The Illusion of Democracy: Who Really Controls our Lives?
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)
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Does USA want Pres. Biden-Harris?
Jimmy Dore, Kurt Metzger (jimmydore.com); Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
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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
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.
- More of 60 Minutes Australia: 60minutes.com.au. 60 Minutes Australia on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.
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
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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.
- Spain eases firms' exit from Catalonia
- Distressed police officer photo goes viral
- Does Catalonia want to leave Spain?
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
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
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 |
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