Charlottesville: far-right crowd with torches encircles counter-protest group

And do you still say that this is protected speech and not a Klan rally? I strongly disagree. These marches will intimidate other community opinion and chill the peaceful voices that simply want to protect the religious and ethnic minorities that are the focus of these marchers' hate. Right-wing extremists averaged 337 attacks per year in the decade after 9/11, causing a total of 254 fatalities I only wish the Anti-Fa were there in numbers that could have successfully confronted the march with force. Fascist success here will breed more and bigger hate marches and the collateral damage of attacks and murders at the hands of white nationalist hate group. Those 254 fatalities will certainly escalate and become lynchings. Don't be such a fucking mamby pamby liberal. They will come for you next.


In a White House statement yesterday the Trump administrate gave what amouts to support to the marchers.

 Yet, yesterday, Trump’s deputy assistant and counterterrorism adviser, Sebastian Gorka, ridiculed the idea of lone-wolf terrorists and played down the threat of white supremacist violence.
     Not surprisingly, Gorka made his comments on the Breitbart News Daily radio show. Under the leadership of President Trump’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon, Breitbart became the platform for a new form of white supremacy called “the alt-right.”
     It says something about Trump that Gorka and Bannon are members of his administration. And what it says is quite disturbing. -- Sothern Law Povery Center

This is no candle light march.  It is truly disturbing. "Jews will not replace us" is just one of the slogans. They mean everybody who does not agree will be subjected by force.

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When Will Climate Change Make the Earth Too Hot For Humans?

If you have not seen this you should.  Not right before bed, and then do something fun afterward because this is the darkest, worst case scenarios I have seen.



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Henry Kissinger warns destroying Isis could lead to ‘Iranian radical empire’

Beware Kissinger's comments on "what next after Isis' defeat" as they have deep roots in diabolical NeoCon planning (just look at that face) and are historically and geo politically absolutely incorrect.
First reported in mainstream press, his comment were actually presented as a keynote speech before The Centre for Policy Studies Margaret Thatcher Conference on Security 2017, the pinnacle of Neoconservative think tanks.  This disinformation is however is completely supported by headlines across the globe including from the NY Times "Iran Dominates in Iraq After U.S. ‘Handed the Country Over’" which is discussed in this podcast I have included below .  Implicating Iran is part and parcel of pushing the NeoCon agenda which is never ending war, a plan in the making for 30 years and largely successful in creating chaos and destruction.

The pod cast is not limited to the current media hysteria over the prospect of an Iranian Radical Empire but rather goes deep into uncomfortable facts about the middle east that Americans prefer to forget.  Hence it is a lively history lesson on the middle east conflict and I recommend a refresher course and an immunization for fear mongering and hype.  Give it a listen.


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Kissinger pushes Iranophobia, fear of 'radical empire' as ISIL declines

Kissinger is not ill-informed, rather he specializes in disinformation  When the Iranian Radical Empire idea is dissected, it proves to be quite a ridiculous proposition.

     I presume Kissinger thinks the Iranian radicalism here is the ideology of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, or Khomeinism, which holds that clerics should rule society.
     If Kissinger is suggesting that we go slow on rolling up ISIL because it is a check on Iran, that is a non-starter. ISIL blew up Paris and Brussels and Istanbul and Damascus and Baghdad, and it simply must be stopped.
     As for the radical empire idea, first of all, that is ridiculous. Lebanon is a multicultural country where Christians, Sunni Muslims, Shiites and Druze shape politics. Even Hizbullah admits that it isn’t a plausible country for Khomeinism.

     Most of Syria is dominated by the secular Baath Party. Its alliance with Iran is one of convenience, not ideology. Although the upper echelons of the Baath and the Syrian Arab Army are dominated by the Alwaite Shiite minority, Alawites are esoteric, New Age Shiites without Friday mosque prayers or a seminary-trained clerical establishment. In short, it is the least likely community to support Khomeinism you could imagine. The rest of Syria is Christians, Druze, Kurds and Sunni Muslims– also not likely to be tempted by Twelver Shiite clerical Khomeinism.
     Although the majority of parliament in Iraq is Twelver Shiite, most Iraqis reject Khomeinism. They do not want clerical rule. Even the chief cleric, Ayatollah Ali Sistani, rejects clerical rule in favor of parliamentary governance. And Shiites in Iraq are not all-powerful. They need the Kurds and Sunni Arabs. Kurds are Sunnis. So 40 percent of Iraq is Sunni or other non-Shiite minority.

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A Quick Note On Venezuela

Venezuela’s problems prove nothing except that resource economies are vulnerable and that the world system and super power are hostile to socialists

This article provide a much needed simplification of this volatile situation that festers amid hype, demagoguery and hysteria. I am very sad for the Venezuelan people and I do not blame the Bolivian Revolution. I do not excuse their petty corruptions but they did many good things that will now be lost. They tried to do the right thing and were beaten by the world for trying.

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If you want a more in depth view of what they might have done to succeed I recommend Ian's other article called Seven Rules for Running a Real Left-Wing Government | Ian Welsh: It is not about Venezuela specifically but it innumerate what a revolution would have to do to beat the odds in a global capitalist world and as you might guess the odds are nearly insurmountable.  What we are left with is lighting a candle in rememberance of a heroic chapter in South American history.

Fossil fuel subsidies are a staggering $5 tn per year globally

This says a study from IMF who might know something.

The new study finds 6.5% of global GDP goes to subsidizing dirty fossil fuels

And yet all those same governments with hand over heart swear the are committed to fighting global warming. Given that is impossible with this amount of subsidy -- I guess they are all just lying?  Ya think?

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Keeping the Wealthy Healthy -- and Everyone Else Waiting

Our health care system is broken in too many ways to count. This article illustrates the corruption of money, yet again another way it's broken.

I do however believe that the heroic care that is used as example, as visceral as it may be, is romanticized out of useful context. I was first introduced to the single payer debate in 1994 when California single payer, prop 186 was defeated in a high priced campaign of lies.  A group of Canadian doctors presenting a film in Petaluma understood the single payer mechanism as vitally important and yet only the first step.  We have in this country a "Heroic Medical Care" system when what we need in this country is a "Public Health Care" system. Such a system would clearly focus on preventative care, well baby, diet, lifestyle, obesity, pollution -- all the little things that reduce the need for heroic medical intervention to a small fraction of the total program. This context is largely missing from the national debate. .

     If rich people had to wait in line for an MRI like everyone else, the American health care system would be changed overnight. We have one health care system for the 1 percent and another for everyone else. I call it wealth care.

It is predictable that millionaire doctors and administrators of hospitals would use the health crises of the ultra rich as an opportunity for fundraising.  After all providing that value is an important albeit unfair part of their job.


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