POST
2016 ELECTION
NOVEMBER
2016 November
30, 2016 -
The specter of a growing far-right nationalism anywhere, but particularly
in Central Europe, immediately – and for good and obvious reasons –
raises fears of an anti-semitism revival. But at least thus far, the leaders of
most of these nationalistic parties – increasingly inspired and fueled by
one another’s success – have showcased dangerous animosity toward Muslims,
accompanied by strong policy support for Israel and a rhetorical repudiation of
anti-semitism. Intercept  Frightened
by Donald Trump? You don’t know the half of it - Many of his staffers are
from an opaque corporate misinformation network. We must understand this if we
are to have any hope of fighting back against them. Guardian Many
of his staffers are from an opaque corporate misinformation network. We must understand
this if we are to have any hope of fighting back against them
Guardian
Think Trump's scary now? Obama is leaving him with broad war powers - The president-elect
keeps news cycles churning with his unhinged tweets, but it’s the current
administration’s expanding military license that should scare us. Guardian
The
CIA and the Press: When the Washington Post Ran the CIA’s Propaganda Network
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CounterPunch
November
29, 2016 -
Chris Hedges Strategy for Radical Change at Green Party of New Jersey Convention
- (50min
video.)
November
28, 2016 -
US veterans
are gathering and plan to join the struggle at Standing Rock. This could develop
into something big. Finally, US soldiers have a chance to fight for the American
people. CounterPunch
We await the crisis. It could be economic.. a terrorist attack ... widespread
devastation by global warming.,,, nationwide unrest as the death spiral of the
American empire intensifies. The crisis is coming. And when it arrives it will
be seized upon by the corporate state, nominally led by a clueless real estate
developer, to impose martial law and formalize the end of American democracy.
TruthDig
(Hedges)
With
Rule 41, Little-Known Committee Proposes to Grant New Hacking Powers to the Government
... The government hacking
into phones and seizing computers remotely? It’s not the plot of a dystopian
blockbuster summer movie. It’s a proposal from an obscure committee that
proposes changes to court procedures—and if we do nothing, it will go into
effect in December. EFF
Related: Senators Not Impressed By DOJ's Answers On Rule 41 Changes
TechDirt
Related: Federal Rules of Civil Procedure - Rule
41. Dismissal of Actions. Cornell
Relativism
and Castro - Murray
November
27, 2016 -
Arrests of Journalists at Standing Rock Test the Boundaries of
the First Amendment - "... Denver-based journalist, was shot in the abdomen
last Sunday by a rubber bullet as he reported from North Dakota on a clash between
demonstrators and police that would end with 26 protesters sent to hospitals and
300 requiring other medical treatment.
Intercept
MSM
(Main Stream Media) will hit on "fake news", but rarely, because they
promote it. The real issue is much deeper ... The
Biggest Political Lie of 2016 -
We are in very dangerous times, of mobs and
meaninglessness. People aren’t swayed by facts anymore; they’re indifferent
to reality and openly scornful of experts. Slate
Yes,
I’d Lie To You - "...It is thus tempting to dismiss the idea of “post-truth”
political discourse ... as a modish myth invented by de-haut-en-bas liberals and
sore losers ignorant of how dirty a business politics has always been. But that
would be complacent. There is a strong case that, in America and elsewhere, there
is a shift towards a politics in which feelings trump facts more freely and with
less resistance ... (now) a deluge of facts and a public much less given to trust
than once it was, some politicians are getting away with a new depth and pervasiveness
of falsehood.... Economist
Washington
Post Disgracefully Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist From a New, Hidden, and Very
Shady Group. Intercept
What
Is The Alt-Right And Who Is In It? The Frightening Rise And Rise Of The White
Nationalist Movement. Huffington
November
26, 2016 -
Dakota
Pipeline issue gets almost zero coverage in the main stream media (MSM). It does
get considerable coverage outside the US. To see full coverage go to Democracy
Now
Wounded
Knee III in the Making?
CounterPunch Feds
Plan To Shut Down Dakota Access Pipeline Protest Camp .... Hundreds of protesters
have until Dec. 5 to get out or face prosecution.
Huffington
Sheriffs
Refuse to Send Troops to Standing Rock as Costs and Public Outrage Mount TruthDig
Indian
Country News
Not My Tribe
Sacred Stone Camp The
most interesting question about 2016 is not why the Brexit result and Trump happened,
but whether historians will regard both as incidental; whether this will go down
as the year democracy revealed itself unworkable in the age of the internet –
in which reality, already engaged in a life-or-death struggle with inverted commas,
finally gave way to “alt-reality”. Guardian
November
25, 2016 -
Over the weekend, there were a flurry of stories about how Donald
Trump and his family are already using the presidency to leverage his overseas
businesses as well as his new DC hotel. Well, now there's more. This time in Argentina
TPM
"Perhaps
2016 will be the year we stop telling ourselves that we live in a democracy."
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The system is rigged for the Presidential election ,,, The system is rigged
at the local government level too ...CELDF
If
You Think the Electoral College is the Only Problem – Well, that’s Part
of the Problem ... The Counter Revolutionary “Founding Fathers” and
the Electoral College ... The
answer isn’t pretty. It exposes the “founding fathers” who wrote
the current US Constitution for the undemocratic, racist, misogynist counter-revolutionaries
that they were. In 1789 when the US Constitution was ratified, it included provisions
that protected the property rights of slave owners against any claim that their
human chattel had legal and civil rights. CELDF
November
24, 2016 -
Funny... YouTube
You
can tell a lot about potential Cabinet nominees by the terrorist group they shill
for. - Giulaini took money from a Group that Killed Americans. Does Trump care?
Politico
Making
White Supremacy Respectable Again.
LA
Times Donald
Trump Taps Billionaire School Voucher Advocate To Run America’s Schools
The president-elect rewarded GOP megadonor Betsy DeVos with the position of education
secretary. Huffington
President-elect
Donald Trump’s authoritarian style and personality, which attracted an overwhelmingly
authoritarian following, is manifesting itself in the selection of his national
security team.
CounterPunch
November
23, 2016 -
Jack London's vision of workers' future looks a lot like our present
... "The Iron Heel
is a dystopian story of the US crushed under the boots of super-rich oligarchs,
and often feels like a contemporary documentary" Guardian
The
dramatic protests against an oil pipeline in North Dakota ....... has grown into
something much larger, and more contentious. And that could bode either ill or
well for a nation.... LA
Times
Trump to scrap Nasa climate research in crackdown on ‘politicized science’
- Nasa’s Earth
science division is set to be stripped of funding as the president-elect seeks
to shift focus away from home in favor of deep space exploration
Guardian
Chris
Hedges: Trump Will Crush Dissent With Even Greater Violence and Savagery
(YouTube
video) View
(8 minutes) Dumocrats
finally grew a pair? .... top Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee
sent a letter to Inspectors General at federal financial services agencies, the
Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Department of Justice, calling
on them to root out any potential conflicts of interests in President-elect Donald
Trump’s administration. Read
Update - HC calls for recount
Read
Hedge fund managers expect
a re turn on their investment in Trump - “The hedge fund guys didn’t
build this country,” Donald Trump told “Face the Nation” in August
2015. “These are guys that shift paper around and they get lucky.” Read
November
22, 2016 -
Note:
2 weeks on and we still don't have a final tally of the votes cast. Reminder:
Hillary won the popular vote.
Trump’s financial disclosures obscure his foreign business interests - ...
most recent financial disclosure statement by Trump shows that of the 564 companies
on which he reported holding an executive position, at least 120 of them were
tied to his business dealings abroad. Read
Update on meeting: Read
Donald
Trump Met Privately With Network Executives And Anchors - The president-elect
reportedly scolded the media for its coverage and discussed access concerns. Read
(Nnte: this event has not been reported on the majority of main-stream-media (MSM)
sites, including CNN. However, CNN does report on NYT's canceled, then reinstated
meeting here
Will
Republicans rein in a corrupt Trump presidency? Don’t bet on it. ... Trump
vowed to “drain the swamp” of corruption in Washington. But experts
on governmental ethics are increasingly worried that Trump’s presidency,
and his refusal to place his global business empire in a blind trust...
Read
Trump
in the White House: An Interview With Noam Chomsky ... has
warned that the political climate in the U.S. is ripe for the rise of an authoritarian
figure.
Read
November
21, 2016 -
The
ruthlessly effective rebranding of Europe’s new far right - Across the continent,
rightwing populist parties have seized control of the political conversation.
How have they done it? By stealing the language, causes and voters of the traditional
left Read
(May
2016) Fascism: Can It Happen Here?
“When Fascism comes to America, it
will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross,” goes a saying that is
widely attributed to the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature,
Sinclair Lewis.
Read
Something
will crack:... Americans trying to unpick the phenomenon of Donald Trump have
turned to a late left-leaning academic, who predicted that old industrialized
democracies were heading into a Weimar-like period in which populist movements
could overturn constitutional governments.
Read
(July 2016) In 2004, the eminent political scientist offered key insights into
the nationalist-cosmopolitan divide at the heart of our society. Read
(April
2010) Noam Chomsky Has ‘Never Seen Anything Like This’ Read
Surveillance Self-Defense
Against the Trump Administration - (Trump) ... ego-maniac - and with it control
over a vast and all-too-unaccountable intelligence apparatus; and in a speech
.. three weeks ago, .. promised to sue all of the women who have come forward
with sexual assault accusations against him. Read
It's
Offical, Truth is dead. Facts are Passed. - The Oxford dictionary defines “post-truth”
as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less
influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.”
Read
November
20, 2016 -
Trump on Israel - May 22 - Trump Wins Over AIPAC Audience With
Strong pro-Israel Stance - 'President
Obama is the worst thing to happen to Israel,' Trump says to massive applause
at AIPAC gathering, vowing to pressure Palestinians to accept Israel as Jewish
state and Jerusalem as its capital.
Read But
then: Trump’s top Pentagon pick said settlements were creating ‘apartheid’
- Retired Marine Corps general James Mattis, seen as front-runner for defense
secretary post, also insisted the US pays a price in Middle East for its support
of Israel. Read
American
activists must move from detached indignation to revolutionary engagement by using
the techniques of social movement creation to dominate elections. Read
November
19, 2016 -
Donald Trump's election has put establishment.
Politicians
in Europe in a state of panic. In Berlin, nobody knows what the US president-elect
intends to do. In Brussels, fears are growing he will put wind into the sails
of the growing anti-EU populist movement. Trump Spells End of Normality for Europe
Read
The
Election was Stolen – Here’s How…
Starting in 2013 –
just as the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act – a coterie of Trump
operatives, under the direction of Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State, created
a system to purge 1.1 million Americans of color from the voter rolls of GOP–controlled
states. Read
Related:
The GOP’s secret scheme begins purge of a million minority
voters from voter rolls Read
Related:
March 5, 2015 - From White Sheets to Spreadsheets. Read
The
Art of Speaking Like Donald Trump, in 10 Easy Steps Read
The
"new normal". Pence booed - Read
November
17, 2016 -
Americans who think the 2016 presidential election was far too
reminiscent of the 2000 edition might be on to something. What’s more, like
a busted clock, President-elect Donald Trump could actually be right twice: that
the “swamp” of Washington, D.C., needs draining, and that U.S. elections
can be stolen.
Read
. The
neoliberal era in the United States ended with a neofascist bang. The political
triumph of Donald Trump shattered the establishments in the Democratic and Republican
parties – both wedded to the rule of Big Money and to the reign of meretricious
politicians. Read
Neoliberalism
– the ideology at the root of all our problems..... Imagine if the people
of the Soviet Union had never heard of communism. The ideology that dominates
our lives has, for most of us, no name. Mention it in conversation and you’ll
be rewarded with a shrug. Even if your listeners have heard the term before, they
will struggle to define it. Neoliberalism: do you know what it is? Read
November
16, 21016-
Republicans are one state legislature away from acquiring the legal
authority to call a new constitutional convention under Article V of the Constitution,
reports Charles Pierce at Esquire.
Read
Titanponte:
NSA Spy Hub in NY Hidden
in Plain Sight Read
Right-wing
leaders in the Israeli government have seized on the election of Donald Trump
to push forward assertive new legislation that would legalize Jewish settlements
in the West Bank built on privately owned Palestinian land. Read
"Netanyahu
was among the first to congratulate Trump by phone. The US president-elect reciprocated
by inviting him for talks “at the first opportunity”. And yet Netanyahu
is reported to be anxious about a Trump White House. Why?
Read
November 15, 2016 -
""In short, in neither the US nor the UK is
a viable radical alternative going to be put before the electorate in the near
future. Those who believe either Brexit or Trump presage a break from neo-liberalism
will be sore disappointed. They represent the continuance of neo-liberalism, but
with popular discontent diverted into added racism."
Read
November
14, 2016: -
On
November 8, the most powerful country in world history, which will set its stamp
on what comes next, had an election. The outcome placed total control of the government
-- executive, Congress, the Supreme Court -- in the hands of the Republican Party,
which has become the most dangerous organization in world history.
Read
The
events that led to Donald Trump’s election
started in England in 1975. At a meeting a few months after Margaret Thatcher
became leader of the Conservative party, one of her colleagues, or so the story
goes, was explaining what he saw as the core beliefs of conservatism. Read
November
13, 2016 -
Chomsky
on Trump: 'Almost a death knell for the human species' May
2016 interview
Recommended
reading: Right turn : the decline of the democrats... 1987 by Thomas Ferguson
and Joel Rogers. (Amazon
link here) Then
read this: The
Collapse of Bill Clinton’s Third Way (2006)
Margaret Weir - Univ.of
California, Berkeley  The
United States has been plunged into a state of purgatory following the election
of Donald Trump. In all political quarters, people are engaged in their own post-mortem
analysis of how this happened and what it means, not only for the future of this
country, but for the world. Read
Or listen
to it here
November
11, 2016 -
It's Worse Than You Think:
Widespread social unrest will ignite
when Donald Trump’s base realizes it has been betrayed. I do not know when
this will happen. But that it will happen is certain. Investments in the stocks
of the war industry, internal security and the prison-industrial complex have
skyrocketed since Trump won the presidency. There is a lot of money to be made
from a militarized police state. Read
Even
before Donald Trump's election victory it was becoming clear that we are living
in an age of disintegration. Nation states are returning to relationships based
on rivalry and friction when the trend was meant to be in the opposite direction
Read
Americans
have now entered into one of the most sickening and dangerous periods of the 21st
century. Trump is not only a twisted caricature of every register of economic,
political, educational, and social fundamentalism, he is the apogee of a warrior
culture committed to rolling back civil rights, women’s reproductive rights,
and all vestiges of economic justice and democracy. Read
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