Shortlist: Independent Alt News sources
websites:
https://projectcensored.org/
https://www.ukcolumn.org/
https://consortiumnews.com
https://www.globalresearch.ca/
https://www.truthdig.com/
https://whowhatwhy.org
https://popularresistance.org/
http://accuracy.org/
https://therealnews.com/
https://www.freelists.org/feed/wikispooks
http://www.sourcewatch.org/
https://celdf.org/
https://www.mintpressnews.com/
https://unlimitedhangout.com/
https://independentpoliticalreport.com/
http://vdlf.org/
https://fair.org/
https://covertactionmagazine.com/about-us/
https://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/
http://www.wisconsinlaborhistory.org/
https://wibailoutpeople.org/
http://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/feed/
https://www.publicbankinginstitute.org/feed/
http://wisdomwisconsin.org/
Authors/Experts
Peter Martin Phillips Intro
Robert Parry Intro
Peter Dale Scott intro
William K. Black Intro
Ray McGovern Intro
Seymour M Hersh
William F Pepper intro
Joe Lauria Intro
Sharyl Attkisson intro
Thomas Linsey Intro
Stephen F Cohen Intro
John Kiriakou intro
Lance deHaven-Smith intro
Micky Huff intro
Kathy Kelly intro
Eva Bartlett intro
Michel Chossudovsky Intro
Vanessa Beely Intro
MMT Economist L. Randall Wray intro
Michael Hudson Intro
Steve Lendman Intro
William Binney Intro
Alison Weir intro
Margaret Flowers intro
Andrei Raevsky “the saker” intro
Ellen Brown Intro
Dave Winer Intro
Dave Lindorff intro
Eric Zuesse Intro
Abby Martin Intro
Gareth Porter intro
Stephen Gowans intro
David Talbot intro
Norman G Finkelstein intro
News Websites I’m vetting/trying out
https://thegrayzone.com/
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/The_Grayzone
Authors I am watching/vetting
TODO
activist tweet ideas/microblog
Below are short posts linking to an article or podcast.
I sample a wide variety of Internet sources via RSS. The goal of these posts is to introduce legitimate news websites, writers and podcasts.
Pls share, tweet, blog, or group-email; promote the article, message, website, or journalist.
https://makeamericansfreeagain.com/ohio-landmark-lawsuit/ | co founder Pam Popper
We will assist in the development of state associations that can support these lawsuits; and help to recruit lawyers, to develop legal strategy, to identify and train expert witnesses, and to raise money.
How: By filing lawsuits like the landmark suit filed first in Ohio claiming that there is no emergency and that the government’s response and restrictions are unwarranted.
https://rightsfreedoms.wordpress.com/2021/12/02/making-america-free-again-with-pam-popper/
makeamericansfreeagain.com has activist groups in several states working on health freedom/ anti jab-mandates. I understand MA has had notable results.
Dan Kovalik | author : “How CIA the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Russia” 57 min
In 1994, Ukraine voluntarily gave up its nuclear weapons. As part of the deal, Russia and the U.S. agreed to “respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine . . . and that none of their weapons will ever be used against Ukraine except in self-defense.” Putin has embarked on a full-scale invasion of the country with the clear intention of overturning its government and taking over the country. Yet, there are many in the U.S., including Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, who sound like Putin apologists in their coverage of the war. We speak to Dan Kovalik, author of “The Plot to Scapegoat Russia: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Russia.” He helps explain that thinking and its connection to the Russia-Trump collusion hoax.
https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1170104323-popularfrontcast-139-the-narco-paramilitaries-of-honduras.mp3 | update since 2012 coup
posted Thu 02 Dec 2021
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https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/vnncs5/ItsOurMoney_050521.mp3
Our guest Anton Chaitkin’s new book Who We Are – America’s Fight for Universal Progress, from Franklin to Kennedy digs deeply into the historical realities which presaged the inequality struggles of today, namely the fight for the rights of humanity over the power of privilege and money.
What If The Big Reveal Already Happened?
the Big Reveal has already happened. All of the information needed to show people that we are ruled by murderous tyrants who shouldn’t be left in charge of their own children much less a globe-spanning empire is already publicly available. Any new information that got added on top of that would be treated the same way it’s been treated up until now: narrative managed and memory-holed into oblivion.
New changes to Twitter make it even worse for free software users
On IRC and other internal office chats, FSF staff will also often use the Nitter service as a way to view and share microblog posts made to Twitter or to check things like hashtag uses. Nitter uses Twitter APIs to show tweets in a way that’s compatible with both freedom and privacy, since the JavaScript it serves is freely licensed. Yet such setups only work for now. It’s never comfortable to rely on third-party clients, as Twitter can disallow them at any time, and has done so in the past.
‘Regulating The Internet Won’t Fix A Broken Government’ | terrifying sec 230 workarounds considered in UK
Above is an interview of Heather Burns from: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/
Google Bans theAnalysis.news from Advertising on YouTube
https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/google-bans-theanalysis-news-from-advertising-on-youtube/
I am an experienced journalist and filmmaker. My documentary work has appeared on major television networks around the world. For ten years, I was the Executive Producer of Counterspin, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s news channel’s primetime daily debate program. I am the creator and host of theAnalysis.news, distributed on YouTube and its website.
“nothing to hide…what do I care” | privacy | Gus Hosein
“nothing to hide…what do I care” | privacy | Gus Hoseinhttp://feedproxy.google.com/r/SingularityBlog/5/oOLkTrRuSao/974662537-singularity1on1-gus-hosein.mp3
- “Chris Hedges talks to Matt Taibbi journalist and author, about the rapidly disintegrating media landscape and its consequences.”
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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/chris-hedges-shredding-journalistic-credibility/
Eric Weinstein snip on postmodernism / “self editing” - Lex interview:
“3 chess moves:”
“map the silence…the number of dogs that don’t bark…you gotta be kidding!”
“favorite movie 1971:”
https://media.blubrry.com/takeituneasy/content.blubrry.com/takeituneasy/lex_ai_eric_weinstein_3.mp3
- Greenwald quits “The Intercept” | Oct 30 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8pkCZBjgrk
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-intercept
This is consistent w/my concerns about “The Intercept”.
https://greenwald.substack.com/?no_cover=true
The new mailing list model is bizarre — journalists are ditching the web and going back to email! A censorship issue in part?
Spoiler Effect Article-Collection update.
“The classic case was that the people voted for the Lesser Evil and got both.”
- A Biden Presidency Means “The Return of the Blob”
https://www.unz.com/pescobar/a-biden-presidency-means-the-return-of-the-blob/
Obama-Biden’s geopolitical accomplishments include a drone war, or Hellfire missile diplomacy, complete with “kill lists”; the failed Afghan surge; the “liberation” of Libya from behind, turning it into a militia wasteland; the proxy war in Syria fought with “moderate rebels”; and once again leading from behind, the Saudi-orchestrated destruction of Yemen.
Stephanie Kelton explains Government “spends first” … deficits … treasury sales not mandatory:
https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/hxvbjf/MacroVoices-2020-10-22-Stephanie-Kelton.mp3
- Harvard Prof Lessig on State Leg. intervening on 2020 election
This podcast is legally intricate; had to re-listen quite a bit.
On MA election; pluralitiees; RCV; multi candidate districts
Home for podcasts above: https://equalcitizens.us/anotherway/
Libyan Muammar Gaddafi 9/2009 speech to United Nations General Assembly:
http://www.radio4all.net/files/tony@cultureshop.org.uk/2149-1-Politics_Show_23_Oct_2020.mp3
Prof Tony Monteiro – blk males vote vs trump
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/fgdc7v/TODAYS_NEWS_102120_EM_limited.mp3
https://www.keywiki.org/Anthony_Monteiro
Per Prof Edward Curtin, “The Intercept” sponsored a workshop with Bellingcat.:
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/vz5mvv/GaryPCH_102020.mp3
I’m cautious when reading The Intercept. It does good work, but my research suggests it’s also censored/slanted.
- open/3rd pty 2020 presidential debates | all videos
debate 3 Sat Oct 24 https://youtu.be/L1d8bXY0AD0?t=33460
debate 2 Denver Th Oct 8 2020 https://youtu.be/-Gyx_hk0hto?t=105
debate 1 Chicago We Mar 4 2020 https://youtu.be/fqqXWxo6XL8?t=806
civi vs soldier deaths – 9:1 in modern war
dues paying membership|mass membership org
Bruce Dixon/Howie Hawkins | blding a mass mem org | dues paying members | 2016 1h video
WHY DOES THE NCGP REQUIRE DUES?
Green members are committed to Green principles and a spirit of activism, and we show this by investing in the Green Party. Like union members, Green Party members identify with the key values of our organization; so we invest in it, are afforded a voice and a vote in it, and are a part of something that benefits the whole. Nonmembers are encouraged to join us, but they do not get to decide the course our organization until that time.
- drop boxes for your ballot | bypass postal mail
- https://nitter.net/LWVMilwaukee/status/1311418073254166531#m
- socialist/activist coalitions, blocks/super-coalitions – conflicts | Michael Albert | ZMag/RevZ
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Long, pedantic, but pithy/interesting. “discusses some of the kinds of differences that arise among people engaged in activism and suggests…”
- 9/25/20 Jessica Katzenstein on the Militarization of American Police
https://dissentradio.com/radio/20_09_25_katzenstein.mp3
164 swat raids daily.
Good several min section at 00:26:45
Katzenstein estimating 60,000 raids per year. With so much military equipment being funneled to police departments from the military and Homeland Security, Scott describes the situation as hardly any different than a foreign army patrolling—and subjugating—an occupied country.”
- Germany 1840s through Bismark (much on him), pretty good:
- http://media.blubrry.com/hi101/hi101.ca/wp-content/podcasts/124._German_Unification_Revisited.mp3
- Dan Griffin – bubble/cohort model: test, quarantine, repeat until 14 days “clean” or 10d after positive test if recovered
Skip to 11:45, esp 12:29+ http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV667.mp3?dest-id=25528
IMP 15:14+ : Anyone w/in 6’ of infected… for 15min should get tested:
- takes 2-14 days from exposure to infection and subsequent disease/pathology/sickness-symptoms
- 2-14 days from exposure to infection – some may never get disease nor any symptoms – still can infect others
- soln: Suspected exposure event, then 14 day quarantine. No sooner than day 3 of quarantine get the test; day 7 or 10 is also reasonable for 1st test. Test again on day 14 to escape quarantine.
- 17:10 If test positive or show tell-tale sars covid 2 symptoms, then isolate for 10 additional days – if you are symptom free now, you should not be a spreader, and you may join the cohort.
- 2020 WI voter purge list
https://nitter.net/Greg_Palast/status/1309653563610595329#m
Check for your name here: https://www.savemyvote2020.org/wisconsin-voter-purge-list-2020/
- US B52s flying regularly along Russian border. Russian pilots losing patience.
9/25/20 Gilbert Doctorow on the US Government’s Provocative Russia Policy | interview - mp3
Appears to be Belarus related.
- https://www.rapidtests.org/ | Dr Michael Mina
- Rapid, inexpensive paper strip tests can tell you whether you are contagious. Research shows that if taken frequently, these tests could help drive COVID-19 infections close to zero.
- Prof Mark Crispin Miller on propaganda sep 2020
Global Research interview starts at 00:29:36 http://ckuw.ca/128/20200925.13.00-14.00.mp3
Prog Commentary hour interview by Gary Null: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/xq67t7/PCH_092220.mp3
I may not agree w/70yr old Mark C Miller’s “facts”, but I do agree with his views on propaganda – he teaches a class in propaganda. He may be censored/fired soon – let’s hope not.
- Far uv-c light bulbs “safely” disable viruses
In depth, far uv-c” researcher interview: http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV666.mp3?dest-id=25528
https://faruv.com/faq/#toggle-id-1
No known impact on human skin or eyes, but 220 nano-meter “far UV C” destroys viruses in in mid air.
- https://itsgoingdown.org/in-the-eye-of-the-storm-a-report-from-kenosha/
Hard Crackers - 3 nights of the Kenosha uprising | itsgoingdown.org
Important/good/long article about courthouse centered “large multiracial crowd” protest.. and subsequent night’s shooting by Kyle R..Goes into detail about the fires, the crowd actions, mood… until 3am. Six arrests on 1st night.
Having seen the carnage in Kenosha up close, we are convinced this is the wrong path. But what is the alternative? How can we build active self-defense against armed fascists and the state, without falling into the trap of making our primary political activity an engagement with these forces of repression on their preferred terrain? The answer cannot be resolved on paper, but we can say for sure it will be guided not by what we want to destroy, but what we want to build: communities of solidarity, inclusivity, and radical equality, based on human needs and not the dictates of profit.
The last 3 paragraphs of the article are interesting, but inconclusive.
- Peace activist David Swanson interviews Main Sen Candidate Lisa Savage
- Audio Interview | Covers RCV | rank choice voting
- podcast – Intro to Mutual Aid | NYC
- https://ia601402.us.archive.org/3/items/igdwoodbine-in-t/IGDWoodbineInT.mp3
- Nader on spoiler effect
- skip to 50:30 https://archives.kpfa.org/data/20200817-Mon1100.mp3
Vaccines Licensed for Use in the United States | vaccine inserts/warnings
https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/vaccines/vaccines-licensed-use-united-states
refering article: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/read-the-fine-print-part-two-nearly-400-adverse-reactions-listed-in-vaccine-package-inserts/
Rania Khalek 1st hand account of Beirut explosion | Other witnesses
Rania Khalek audio: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/unauthorizeddisclosure/S7E29edit.mp3?dest-id=183202
- Investigative report Kristina Borjesson interviews Charlotte Dennett
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/gtm3k8/WB_080720.mp3
BEIRUT: ACCIDENT OR ATTACK? Investigative reporter, attorney and author Charlotte Dennett, who was born in Beirut, worked as a reporter there and is an expert on Middle East affairs, explores the historical context in which the enormous explosion at Beirut’s port occurred and talks about who stands to benefit from the bloody chaos and what agendas are in play in that part of the world.
TWIV podcast |chart of PCR CT level vs time vs xmital
03:10 - 14?+ http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV648.mp3?dest-id=25528
Dave Lindorff | how 2 western “spies/traitors” saved Russia saved from annihilation by USA
Dave Lindorff interview | Remembering Ted Hall and Klaus Fuchs
A mythology surrounding the dropping of the omnicidal ‘Fat Man’ and ‘Little Boy’ atomic bombs was fostered after the fact by an America eager to maintain its mantle of supreme power, while posturing as saviour and moral arbiter of the newly unmade World. The story, still told and retold today, portrays the United States as a reluctant warrior forced into World War II, and forced to end the Pacific war quickly in order to save lives; in short, forced to destroy cities to save them.
imp podcast series from workers world on China| Essential Dissent WWP
http://www.radio4all.net/files/wvought@gmail.com/4318-1-Essential_Dissent_-_Why_We_Defend_China_Against_US_Attacks_58_Min_-24_LUFS.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/wvought@gmail.com/4318-1-Essential_Dissent_-_Why_We_Defend_China_Against_US_Attacks_81_Min_-19_LUFS.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/wvought@gmail.com/4318-1-Essential_Dissent_-_Why_We_Defend_China_Against_US_Attacks_81_Min_-24_LUFS.mp3
I have only sampled one of the above.
- Who The Democratic And Republican Party Censors Are|
Center for Media and Democracy | CMD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Media_and_Democracy
Ted Rall https://www.unz.com/trall/10-reasons-i-wont-vote-for-biden/
Progressives Should Boycott Biden
- virologists optimistic! $1 low sensitivity covid test, could drop R significantly if done daily
The test exists, but is not a product now.
02:22 Guest researcher Michael Mina introduced. 13:37 - 15:04+ : critical section.
Strongly suggest you listen/re-listen . Show notes
The test is quick and can be done at home. It does not catch early covid, but when it indicates covid, Michael Mina claims it is accurate and self quarantine should start.
Michael Mina | “Med Cram” video snips / 5 min
Update: https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/08/12/fda-red-tape-entangles-instant-coronavirus-test/
- Michigan Goes to Supreme Court to Reverse Laws Easing Initiative Signature Gathering Restrictions During Pandemic
- MA Initiative for Ranked Choice Voting Qualifies for November 2020 Ballot
- https://ballot-access.org/2020/07/13/massachusetts-initiative-for-ranked-choice-voting-qualifies-for-november-2020-ballot/
- Federal District Court Opinion Extending the Time for Oregon Initiative Proponents to Collect Signatures
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=113042
Plaintiffs argue that these requirements are unconstitutional as applied during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and related government regulations that limit social interaction. Defendant Beverly Clarno, Oregon’s Secretary of State, counters that the initiative requirements are constitutional and that pandemic- related regulations do not alter their constitutionality.
- Ballot Measure Featuring RCV Submitted in North Dakota
- https://www.fairvote.org/ballot_measure_featuring_rcv_submitted_in_north_dakota
- Acceptance speeches by Angela Walker and Howie Hawkins. Good intro/background on Walker.
- https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/qo13f9/TODAYS_NEWS_071320_EM_limited.mp3
- https://blackagendaradio.podbean.com/mf/play/ams9j2/Bar_071320.mp3
42:10 Representing Green Party, Margaret Kimberly
49:11 Ajamu Sibeko Baraka
- List of discredited foreign policy NYT reporters by Scott Horton.
- Skip in 17:41 https://dissentradio.com/radio/20_07_10_porter.mp3
slavery reparations | 2 podcasts
: William A. Darity Jr, Kirsten Mullen, Thomas Craemer |radioopensource
Richard Epstein, Chicago Law, NYU Law, and Hoover Inst
- File under “anti-spoiler” article – boycott Biden | Ted Rall
- https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/07/03/the-data-is-clear-progressives-should-boycott-biden/
- Joe Lauria on Assange |detailed background, longish, re-listen to this!
- interview M Flowers/Kevin Z: skip in 28:38
- 1960s Indonesian Genocide | Rania Khalek & Kevin Gosztola interview of Vincent Bevins
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/unauthorizeddisclosure/S7E24.mp3?dest-id=183202
https://fair.org/home/no-us-didnt-stand-by-indonesian-genocide-it-actively-participated/
“Vincent Bevins, the author of The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World”
- Jun 17 update on Covid, by TWIV virologist panel.
http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV628.mp3?dest-id=25528
( This Week in Virology: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/ )
- Reps. Bowen, Brostoff: Joint statement on incident at Speedway gas station in Menomonee Falls.
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“What happened at that gas station last night was racist, plain and simple. I’m calling on the people of Menomonee Falls to acknowledge the racism in their community and work as hard as possible to make their city welcoming to everyone. In light of the recent violent comments and hostility shown towards the Black community by a number of individuals, including some of their own local elected officials, Menomonee Falls has a lot of work to do. Black people in 2020 shouldn’t have to worry about a Trustee joking about police using live ammunition on protesters, or something as simple as trying to patronize a store without being turned away because of their race,” said Rep. Brostoff.
Recent citizen-action Battleground WI discussions on #GeorgeFloyd
- New to me:
https://progressive.international/about/en
In December 2018, the Democracy in Europe Movement (DiEM25) and the Sanders Institute issued an open call to all progressive forces to form a common front.
- Do’s and Don’ts of Covering Protests
- https://inn.org/2020/06/dos-and-donts-of-covering-protests/
Michael Hudson |audio/mp3| May 2020 interviewed on theanalysis.news perma-link
Marxist economist Michael Hudson covers stock buy backs (divestment for a given company), China’s handling of debt defaults; debts/bonds that can’t and won’t be repaid, manipulation of the stock market (Fed may be directly buying stocks [we do not know]); and the false aspect of the current stock market “recovery”– in his view it positions smart players to exit without big losses.
- Extensive coverage of GeorgeFloyd protests across USA. Mon 01 Jun 2020
- https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/28843405/loud_clear_1079.mp3
- Overt Texaco (Chevron now) Env Crimes in Equator , June 2020
Steve Donziger Paul Paz y Mino. Multi billion dollar ruling.
23:40 - https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/clearingthefogradioshow/CtF_Show_6_1_20.mp3?dest-id=122538
Consider boycotting Chevron gas stations.
- Hedges – why Bernie did not run as an independent. What the Dems did to Nader, McGovern.
- 03:36 http://www.radio4all.net/files/tuc@tucradio.org/44-2-20200518_hedges_wolff_biden_trump_two_of_two.mp3
- Apparently Kent State shootings were effective in quelling antiwar movement.
skip in 21:00 https://projectcensored.podbean.com/mf/play/baamn4/ProjectCensored_051920.mp3
29:00 Madison WI
WEC: Releases analysis of absentee voting in April 7 spring election
- Howie Hawkins interviewed by Mike Albert on supporting Biden in battleground states| May 17 2020
spoiler effect / lesser of two evils
Howie is relentlessly questioned: why won’t hold his nose and support Biden in the swing/battleground states, while also pledging to fight most of Biden’s policies should Biden be elected. Howie and Albert remain friends. Howie defends his position well.
- “Archetypal Wounds and Their Healing Fields”
shame, abandonment, betrayal| mind-body/culture| your “biometric information field”| within and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/beyond_the_pale https://media.blubrry.com/sounds_true/content.blubrry.com/sounds_true/PD04491W_Mario-Martinez.mp3
16:00 shame/honor, abandonment/commitment, betrayal/loyalty
- Videos of 2020 Green Party Presidential Debates
- https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2020/04/videos-of-every-2020-green-party-presidential-debate/
- WI Citizen Action analysis of Apr 2020 WI Primary
post-primary: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/794856205-citizen-action-of-wi-bg437.mp3
pre-primary: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/789552685-citizen-action-of-wi-bg436.mp3
2016 WI recount notes | raw plain text
Joe Lauria on Assange, Manning, Wikileaks |Mar 2020
- China’s statement on Covid-19 timeline
- http://www.radio4all.net/files/anonymous@radio4all.net/16-1-ContinuingPoliticsofCOVID19.mp3
- The covidactnow.org model has been updated to cover not two but three possible public reactions:
(changes noticed on Thu 02 Apr 2020)
- Limited action /pink/
- 3 months of Stay at home (poor compliance) /grey-green/
- 3 months of Stay at home (strict compliance) /turquoise/
See https://covidactnow.org/state/WI
The happy case means no hospital overload in WI, through June.
- Dr. Fauci Answers Trevor’s Questions About Coronavirus | youtube - Trevor Noah
- 13 min, down to earth, good advice.
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Update on Thu 12 Sep 2024:
You do not need an account for jitsi.
For the desktop, there is nothing to install. For a phone, it probably makes sense to install the app.
- jitsi vs zoom; mayfirst.coop; update on open source meeting tools
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Update on Thu 21 Sep 2023:
The most popular jitsi server now requires the person that “opens the mtg” to authenticate with big tech. Not ideal, but only they have to, attendees do not – started about a month ago.
It’s good to know there are alternate free jitsi servers. Here is one I’m trying: https://meet.libreops.cc/
Update on Sun 02 Jan 2022: Jitsi keeps getting better. Unfortunately, I think it still is not suitable for large groups. It’s worked well for a group I’m in with up to 20 people.
AUDIO: Usually good, never noticed large delays (Telegram vid chats may have these). Desktop Jitsi provides a virtual lobby room that allows you to check your own audio before you join a meeting,
Screen sharing: excellent. Cross sharing is practical - everyone can share at same time.
Metrics/troubleshooting, provides: net through put stats; summary totals of “human speaker” talk times
chat: no facility to do a 1 click save chat log, but you may Ctrl-A Ctrl-C it ( do a clipboard copy ).
recording/streaming: Streaming to youtube supported; recording to drop box is supported.
license: GPLV?
Setup: macos folks have to give their browser right to “record screen”.
I’ve used jitsi regularly since Mar 2020. I’m still a happy user in Dec 2022. It uses several google hangouts conventions (uses google’s WebRTC) . Not sure how it holds up under our currently highly loaded (covid19) networks.
Listened to this…Speaks favorably of jitsi for small groups, and discusses mumble, and several other tools:
https://mayfirst.coop/media/en/audio/free-software-during-corona-virus-pandemic.mp3
( I think the pirate party in MA uses ‘mayfirst’ servers.)
Mayfirst has a RSS feed for their podcasts: https://mayfirst.org/en/audio/index.xml
– My sense is that jitsi works OK for groups w/up to 35 people (Sep 2021).
For the desktop, you do not have to install anything. For a smartphone, I suugest you install their jitsi app.
You may call into a meeting via a plain old telephone landline.
jitsi help
Jitsi shows your network stats if you move your mouse cursor to the thumbnail view of “yourself” , and then hover over the bar-graph-icon. Lost packets seem to correlate with bad audio. You are also shown upload and download speeds in units of kbps ( kilo (i.e. thousand) bits per second.
could not hear Alice … bug:
I could not hear Alice, so I closed the browser tab and rejoined and in the new instance I could hear Alice.
- ‘Antifragility’:
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Netflix had made themselves “antifragile” by employing software they called “Chaos Monkey,” which regularly and randomly brought down Netflix servers. By continually crashing their own servers, Netflix learned how to nevertheless keep other portions of their network running.
- Apr 7 election | live alone? – getting your vote witnessed | request ballot thru Mar 30 |in person voting iffy
You may request an absentee ballot through Mar 30: https://myvote.wi.gov/en-US/VoteAbsentee
According to citizens action (Thu Mar 26) /skip in 44:20/ due to the “Safer at Home” directive, you do not have to upload an ID – if you select “indefinitely confined” – please listen to the citizens action audio for confirmation.
Open question: If you live alone, what is a safe way to get your ballot witnessed? Put ballot on the desk, walk 6 feet away, have witness sign…?
Per Citizen Action discussion, increasingly looking like in person voting may not happen. Citizen Action discussion of Apr 7 election (skip in 36:40 or 35:30 )
https://evers.wi.gov/Documents/COVID19/EMO12-SaferAtHome.pdf
- I have been following this site – https://www.lesswrong.com – for a while (a year or so?) , and find interesting thinking there:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wFTRgeaq5wceEfb2X/lesswrong-coronavirus-agenda
( long w/many links )
- Assange case gets mainstream coverage (7min)! Tucker Carlson interviews activist Roger Walters (pink floyd):
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8lRg-DVNdc
- Press Release: Recognition of the Rights of the Menominee River | February 18th, 2020
http://communityrights.us/2020/03/03/press-release-recognition-of-the-rights-of-the-menominee-river/
With the river facing grave threats from water pollution, global warming, and the proposed open-pit gold-zinc mine known as the “Back Forty Project,” the Tribe determined that to the protect river it “must secure the highest protections for the river through the recognition of the river’s inherent and legal rights.”
- London panel discussion on “Imperialism on Trial- Free Julian Assange” | ~2.5hrs audio
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Presenters: Craig Murray, Alexander Mercouris, Eva Bartlett, Peter Lavelle, George Gallaway, Brian Becker, …( several others ). Pls listen!
Legal updates from two lawyers on NYC 911 grand jury status
- “Worth the Price? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War”
interview of Matthew Hoh (audio), also https://dissentradio.com/radio/20_03_12_zunes.mp3.
https://matthewhoh.com/tag/danny-glover/
https://www.worththeprice.org/
As chair of foreign relations cmte Biden played a key role in enabling the 2003 Iraq War.
- Assange Torture and Interrogation | Karen Kwiatkowski
Torture usually fails to get results, but it sometimes works and it is morally unacceptable in my opinion. Chemical/drug torture was successfully used to get encryption keys from Assange. Assange has been “destroyed”, and mental recovery will take years, or may not happen.
Background on Karen Kwiatkowski.
Per Karen: troops from our “endless wars” return to mostly “red states”, explaining at home, the absurdity of said wars – leads to support in red states for non interventionist foreign policy.
- Gareth Porter interview on Iran. Nuclear weapons policy/lack of threat. Why USA has been daemonizing Iran since Reagan
https://dissentradio.com/radio/20_02_17_porter.mp3
Long must listen history of Iran since Carter – US/Reagan Iraq support for Iran/Iraq war; the truth about Iran nuclear weapons policy/lack of threat.
Rich source of info. I like the interviewer/host despite his libertarian beliefs.
http://news.infoshop.org/organizing/canvassing-is-not-organizing/
- Open letter dialog continues on ‘spoiler effect/safe-state-strategy’
continued by Z Magazine / Mike Albert [“Disagreement and Vituperation”] I do not agree w/Albert, but he attempts to be very fair and rational. He claims some of the GP debate/response was unfair/overly-aggressive, and praises Hawkin’s for his level headed response (earlier podcast?). I think this 23min talk is worth listening to:
- Iraq War US Vet testimonials|Michael Prysner @EyesLeft Podcast
- Skip in 52:30 for selected (“Winter Soldier” |March 2008) USA Iraq War Vet testimonials. I’ve listened to the 15 min from the start, and about 15 min at the end – all good, but painful to hear. We should be referring current soldiers to this podcast since the provide systematic support for soldiers that what to get out of the military. girightshotline.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GI_Rights_Network https://aboutfaceveterans.org/ About Face: Veterans Against the War | youtube channel
- mistrial-declared-in-kafkaesque-d-c-trial-of-venezuela-embassy-protectors
Yaay!
“I am grateful for the resolve of the jurors who held out and caused today’s hung jury…It shows that the overreach in foreign policy of the Trump Administration is not popular among the American public.” Flowers and Zeese are members of the Maryland Green Party. “We stand with Greens and other progressives everywhere, who are proud of the actions that Flowers, Zeese and the others, in favor of peace and the self-determination of autonomous nations,” stated Hawkins. “This shows that Greens are willing to do whatever is necessary to stand up for justice.”
- NYT Reporter Interviews Sputnik News “On the record”
- Skip in 22:20.
- Interview of Elias Davidsson who wrote “Hijacking America’s Mind on 9/11”
- Actions by Bush to expand responsibility of FEMA to handle terrorist attacks, in May 2001: 11:10.
- Ellen Brown interviewed by Tony Gosling on public banking | skip in 30:05
- Japan may buy bonds to stimulate their economy and then simply ‘hold on to them’; i.e. effectively forgiving them? Despite this they have low inflation. Not that Japan is a perfect model…
- Marxist economist Michael Hudson addresses Poor Peoples Campaign | audio
- Multiple references to Marx “Capital, Volume III”. Typical “information dense” Hudson, worth listening to twice.
Interesting historical commentary on Israel since 1967 |Prof Walter L Hixon
- ‘The Fever’ by Wallace Shawn | read out loud
http://wischik.com/lu/senses/fever.html
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/696425-the-fever-evergreen-original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-bWuxrKLKw
The Torturers and the ‘Ticking Bomb’: How Torture Became Routine in the Global War on Terror
- Tom Perez Stacks 2020 Convention Committees With ‘From the Swamp’ Nominations | rootsaction
Comprehensive coverage of who’s who in DNC 2020: Platform Committee; Rules Committee; Credentials Committee
H Hawkins responds to ‘Open Letter’
The Open Letter and the DNC | Rob Urie
How to Organize Your Workplace Without Getting Caught | Portside
- Stories from the 2019 VZ Embassy Protection Collective Jan 24 2020 | podcast
Embassy_Protection_Collective_-_The_Peoples_Forum_NYC_012420
- MKE Stand for Peace Video | Sat Jan. 25 — Global Day of Protest — No war on Iran!
Statements by FRSO, PSL and WI Green Party: https://youtu.be/GtRULiDvI5U
Good turnout from MKE End the Wars Coalition, MKE “Stand for Peace” regulars, FRSO, PSL, and WI Green Party. 220 cities participated according to Brian Becker (‘loud and clear’).
https://www.workers.org/2020/01/45831/
https://www.liberationnews.org/northwest-protests-demand-no-war-on-iran/
https://iacenter.org/2020/01/21/jan-25-global-day-of-protest-no-war-on-iran/
- Evers Creates Nonpartisan Redistricting Panel | “People’s Maps Commission”
a January 2019 Marquette University Law School poll that asked about redistricting showed that 72% of respondents supported having a nonpartisan commission draw the maps, with only 18% saying the Legislature should draw them.
- Jill Stein on Assange and the New McCarthyism | CN Live video
52 min: https://youtu.be/rd97x5w-nZ8
- Iraq Conflict History 2011-2020 | Sami Ramadani
Skip in 32:20. Fairly long, and detailed insider narrative – must listen.
- Anti-War activist Mike Prysner Interview
https://girightshotline.org/ @EyesLeftPod
example EyesLeft podcast | 2018-6-30
- Carl Grossman on militarization of space / new Space Force |audio interview
https://geopolitics.co/2019/12/24/weaponization-of-space-trumps-holiday-gift-for-humanity/
Global Network - Keep Space for Peace!: http://space4peace.org
Trump: Make space great again | Intrepid Report.com
- Wisconsin Appeals Court Stays Voter Purge Ruling Decision Means More Than 200K Names Will Remain On Voter Rolls For Now
A Wisconsin appeals court has granted a stay of a ruling that could have immediately purged more than 200,000 voters from Wisconsin’s registration list.
- video| Cheri Honkala & team [March on DNC 7/13/2020]| near MKE Fiserv Forum 1/10/20
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Cheri Honkala and her Poor People’s Army team plan to come to Milwaukee frequently between now and July to plan their March on the DNC actions. Her team is not the same as the local MKE Coalition to March on the DNC.
[Poor People’s Army]
http://economichumanrights.org/
Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign
1505 W Allegheny Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19132
Phone: 215-869-4753
Email: PPEHRCorg@gmail.comhttps://www.facebook.com/ppehrc
https://onechildsmart.blogspot.com/2020/01/livesoverluxury-poor-peoples-army-will.html
#LivesOverLuxury March on the DNC video | Nov 2019
- Michael Albert on GP Spoiler effect – open letter to GP/H20 | 20m podcast
I disagree w/Albert, but it’s worth our analysis.
Albert is responding to Hawkin’s: https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/25/the-green-party-is-not-the-democrats-problem/
- Kevin Barrett (Madison WI) and J Michael Springmann comment on murder of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani
Kevin Barrett lives in Madison. Veteranstoday is admittedly a strange website, but the video is from “press tv”.
I respect both Kevin Barrett and J Michael Springmann.
http://thesaker.is/the-usa-is-now-at-war-de-facto-and-de-jure-with-both-iraq-and-iran/
- measuring targets of us imperialism: history, economics, geopolitics, culture and iran
By part time Milwaukeean and MKE End The Wars Coalition member, Harry Targ.
As Iranian soldiers refused to fire upon street demonstrators, President Carter’s National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, urged the president to send troops to Iran to save the U.S. regional policeman, the Shah, from overthrow. That proposal was rejected by Carter. […]
In the 1980s, to challenge Iran’s potential for becoming the hegemonic power in the Gulf, the Reagan administration sided with Iraq in the brutal war between it and Iran. In 1988, shortly before the end of the Iraq/Iran war U.S. planes shot down a civilian Iranian airliner killing 290 people aboard. […]
since a hostile Iran could control the Strait of Hormuz, the Iranian revolution of 1979 posed an increasing geopolitical problem for American dominance.
- contracted smearing of Svetlana Lokhova. @RealSLokhova 12/12/19 | Jul 2016 Russiagate
Much to unpack/fascinating. I plan to listen twice.
- John Rawls - maximize state of “least well off” in society
Skip in 01:30. Philosophical analysis of: liberal democratic society; distributive justice; inequality; primary social goods.
- https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/21167871/episode_308_opcw_leaks_2020_harbingers_with_guest_tareq_haddad.mp3
Skip in 27:05 for interview of resigned Newsweek journalist Tareq Haddad.
52:52 update on OPCW leaks.
- Further Proof: U.S., UK, & France Committed War-Crime on 14 April 2018
White Helmets; OPCW; Douma | Eric Zuesse 12/29/2019
- Journalist Patrick Lawrence - first to write a prescient piece calling Russiagate a fraud. | Lawrence interview | mp3
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July 26 2016: Shades of the Cold War: How the DNC fabricated a Russian hacker conspiracy to deflect blame for its email scandal
- https://dissentradio.com/radio/19_12_13_kiriakou.mp3
- x-CIA/torture whistle-blower John Kiriakou interviewed about his new and prior books. Topics: CIA torture; CIA vs FBI interrogation techniques; Brenann, George Tenet, Bush/Cheney, Gina Haskell; reporters/researchers: Patrick Lang, Phil Giraldi, Larry Johnson;
media blackout on OPCW worker leaks
- 3rd-gen dissident/organizer Max Wilbert interviewed by Derrick Jenson
Key concepts/strategies for effective activism/direct action.
Max Wilbert is a third-generation dissident who grew up in Seattle’s post-WTO anti-globalization and undoing racism movement. He has been an organizer for more than 15 years.
Max is a longtime member of Deep Green Resistance and serves on the board of a small, grassroots non-profit. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Communication and Advocacy from Huxley College.
- Andre Vltchek reports on Hong Kong
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Andre and the interviewer Chris Cook focus on the strength of western propaganda.
Ranked Choice Voting Finds Support In Illinois
- fascinating 2017 insider analysis of CIA, DIA, DOD, NSA … Brennan, Clapper, Flynn, Murray… |John Kiriakou
Kiriakou interview starts 10 min into podcast. CIA, DNI, DIA, DOD, NSA, JSOC, IQT/In-Q-Tel
What happened – 1980+ to Pensions, 401ks, Health Insurance Costs|Jack Rasmas
- Proof that America’s “Deep State” Exists and Controls the Government
A must read! Nothing that new but pulls together crucial evidence about ‘hack or leak’/Russiagate.
- The Navy Installed Touch-screen Steering Systems To Save Money. Ten Sailors Paid With Their Lives.
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Fascinating article and discussion. It does not inspire confidence!
- Calculate and offset your CO2 emissions!
Related https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mFeGmtdLLaeHqyxuk/should-we-still-fly
Bellingcat - a questionable news source
- Lies, Newsweek and Control of the Media Narrative: First-Hand Account — Tareq Haddad
Tareq Haddad recently resigned from Newsweek. Long article.
- Dr. Lee Artz, How to Stage a Coup! Media, Politics, and Interventions in Bolivia |Purdue
http://www.radio4all.net/files/dalerlehman@yahoo.com/2838-1-LeeArtz_BoliviaCoup@OUL.mp3
Details on ~80 min talk: https://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/104518
How To Stage A Coup
1 Recruit, fund opposition for “democracy”
2 Media propaganda, slander, disinformation
3 Organize disruption (students, middle class)
4 Buy, bribe allied support (e.g. OAS, Lima Group)
5 Misinform public w. fear, threat, values
6 Plan/ respond to crisis w. post Coup government
- Why Won’t Foxconn Tell Wisconsin What It’s Building? - Slashdot
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Documents obtained by The Verge show that Wisconsin officials have repeatedly – and with growing urgency – warned Foxconn that its current project has veered far from what was described in the original deal and that the contract must be amended if the company is to receive subsidies. Foxconn, however, has declined to amend the contract, and it indicated that it nevertheless intends to apply for tax credits.
- Michael Hudson on gov creation of money.
A must listen July 2019 interview in Winnipeg CA, suggest listening several times.
- skip in 10:05 Interview of Michael Albert of Znet on Socialism
Focuses on tension between working class and “professional/coordinating class”. The < 1% “owners” are not so visible; they use “coordinating class”. Jack Rasmas and Michael Albert have an interesting debate.
Dems agree to a horrible National Defense Authorization Act | OpEdNews
- Why President Assad’s interview was suppressed
Phil Taylor interviews Steven Sahiounie | podcast
Former Israeli Spy Ari Ben-Menashe on Israel’s Relationship with Epstein
Hillary Clinton’s Six Foreign Policy Catastrophes – Eric Zuesse
- Ralph Nader on Impeachment of Trump
Donald Trump’s Big Abuses of Power Demand a Big Impeachment
- Fri Dec 6 MKE sit in at Wells Fargo - 2min video
6 min video - Milwaukee Climate Strike Rally and March
- the movie “For Sama” is propaganda…
The movie covers “east Aleppo in the years 2012 - 2016”.
Most residents of east Aleppo did not want the militants to take over their neighborhoods. The short video, Nine Days from my Window, shows the takeover in one neighborhood. Many civilians fled the east side of Aleppo after the “rebels” took over. […]
This short video describes the situation in west Aleppo, completely ignored by For Sama.
- https://mobile.twitter.com/AlexBrowerMKE/status/1203507884379820032?p=v
Alex Brower and 10 others (2019/12/08):
Yesterday I and the rest of the Milwaukee 11 demanded @WellsFargo stop funding fossil fuels. We were arrested as part of the civil disobedience. I stand by my actions.
- http://www.wnpj.org/node/11429
11 Arrested at Peaceful Sit-in in Milwaukee | People’s Climate Coalition - downtown MKE
11 individuals were arrested during a peaceful sit-in at Wells Fargo Bank on Wisconsin Ave, while hundreds rallied and march to the intersection of Water and Wisconsin in demand that Wells Fargo and JP Morgan Chase Banks stop loaning to fossil fuel companies and their executives and instead reinvest those funds in renewable energy, green infrastructure and sustainable and equitable practices.
Yesterday I resigned from Newsweek after my attempts to publish newsworthy revelations about the leaked OPCW letter were refused for no valid reason.
- https://deleteyouraccount.libsyn.com/dont-get-caught
( Nov 2016 ) On security best practices and activism. Not great, but a few good ideas.
Alternate link: https://shadowproof.com/2016/11/18/delete-account-episode-25-dont-get-caught/
- Progress made in Chicago Black Lives Matter work
Must listen recording by Dale Lehman on 2019-11-22. More details
- http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode368_douma.mp3
Dec 6 2019 James Corbett “The Douma Hoax: Anatomy of a False Flag”, on Douma OPCW Whistleblowers.
- https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/724472203-user-901836666-persecution-of-assange-continues-as-uk-australian-government-remain-silent.m4a
(Dec 2019) He has served his time; now in prison “only because USA wants to extradite him”. Forced to war prison uniform. Deprived of reading glasses. No laptop or computer access. In poor health. Many “hoops” to go through if you want to visit him.
- US government drops case against Max Blumenthal after jailing journalist on false charges
“I’m relieved the government has finally decided to drop these phony charges against me. But I’m also disgusted,” Max Blumenthal said, “because I should never have been hauled out of my house and thrown in jail for an obviously politically motivated, false allegation that the police failed to investigate.”
- https://nader.org/2019/12/06/why-not-also-go-with-the-kitchen-table-impeachable-offenses-for-removal/
i plan to read this soon
- https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/n24bs5/ITsOurMoney_120419.mp3
I need to re-listen. Very imp Ellen Brown audio/podcast, on repo market bailout, public banking etc.
- https://www.businessinsider.com/the-11-nations-of-the-united-states-2015-7
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21718306
- https://runawayinequality.org/2019/12/04/public-banking-in-new-jersey-is-for-real/
‘executive order for a 14-member “Public Bank Implementation Board.”’
- https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/26/evoi-n26.html
Wisconsin’s Democratic governor signs oil lobby-backed bill criminalising free speech - World Socialist Web Site
- http://traffic.libsyn.com/aroundtheempire/AroundtheEmpire_Ep136_Coup_in_Bolivia_feat_Ben_Norton.mp3?dest-id=455923
Gray Zone’s Ben Norton is new to me.
- https://ballot-access.org/2019/11/27/jill-stein-asks-federal-court-to-bar-philadelphia-ess-vote-counting-machines/
Jill Stein Asks Federal Court to Bar Philadelphia ES&S Vote-Counting Machines | Ballot Access News
“Fair Maps for Wisconsin Summit” video by Dan Folkman https://youtu.be/J84h_qIgHsk
- “Wisconsin’s Democratic governor signs oil lobby-backed bill criminalising free speech”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/26/evoi-n26.html
By signing the legislation Evers made Wisconsin the tenth state to adopt legislation written by the oil companies which further enhances the power of the state in penalizing protesters. In fact, the Wisconsin law has the exact same language as “critical infrastructure” bills that have passed with bipartisan support in North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Iowa, Louisiana, Indiana, Tennessee, Texas and Missouri. […]
The sight of thousands of workers, students and indigenous peoples united together against the class enemy has led to the concerted effort to pass the latest raft of anti-democratic laws.
60 Minutes piece “How the Russians Hacked the 2016 Election.” Rebuttal by William Binney and Ray McGovern here: https://thewhistleblowernewsroom.podbean.com/mf/play/rybr69/WB_112919.mp3
- http://www.radio4all.net/files/anonymous@radio4all.net/16-1-WhiteHelmetsWorkwithTerrorists.mp3
Vanessa Beeley discusses Syrian “White Helmets”, “May Day Rescue”, Syrian Red Cresent, and Syrian Civil Defense.
http://hamiltoncoalitiontostopthewar.ca/2019/11/14/vanessa-beeleys-white-helmets-lecture-dec-3/
- https://www.opednews.com/articles/Jury-Nullification-Thwarts-by-Jacob-Hornberger-Food_Immigration_Jury_Medical-191128-783.html
What the judge does not tell the jury is that they actually have the power to judge both the facts and the law. But some juries figure that out on their own. If they conclude, as a matter of individual conscience, that the law is evil, immoral, or tyrannical, it is within their prerogative to acquit the accused even if they are convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that he did in fact commit the offense.
- long termism, long term view of humanity, consequences of our decisions
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Existential risks to future of humanity listed/discussed. 2000 centuries of civilization so far, potentially many many multiples of that are possible if we do not lock in extinction.
- https://youtu.be/nItsO4vKb2Q skip to 5:20
The Rights of Nature | Kat Houghton | TEDx Ashville NC
http://communityrights.us/2019/11/17/tedx-talks-the-rights-of-nature-by-kat-houghton/
Ashville NC Climate bill of rights. https://www.cmroots.com/community-bill-of-rights
- https://wibailoutpeople.org/2019/11/24/the-grass-is-greener-2019-11-23-noelle-hanrahan-on-mumia-abu-jamal-and-prison-radio/
The Grass is Greener – 2019-11-23 – Noelle Hanrahan on Mumia Abu Jamal and Prison Radio
Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement
- https://youtu.be/9ZoYsSANrWM | 68 min on US-backed far-right military coup in Bolivia
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interviewed by Joe Lauria Consortiuim News Editor on Nov 24
- https://savedotorg.org/ Save .ORG | SaveDotOrg.org
Help stop the sale of Public Interest Registry to a Private Equity Firm
- http://blogs.harvard.edu/sj/2019/11/23/a-tale-of-icann-and-regulatory-capture-the-dot-org-heist/
It is certainly the privatisation of a not-for-profit monopoly into a for-profit one, which will benefit a few by inconveniencing millions of others.
- https://fair.org/home/years-from-now-itll-be-clear-to-everyone-there-was-a-coup-in-bolivia/ | Nov 21
Jeanine Áñez, was not the president of the senate; she belonged to the minority opposition party in the senate. And she took advantage of the fact that the legislators of both houses were not there, were in hiding, weren’t able to assist in the discussion, so there was no quorum. So she spoke before a plenary that wasn’t a quorum. I was not legal; you didn’t have enough members of the senate that were present. And declared herself president of the senate, before then saying, “OK, if I’m president of the senate, then that makes me president of the country.”
- Peoples of the World With Evo | Nov 15
An Open letter (~2pages) signed by anti-imperialist organizations and individuals … Add your name/organization
We, allied anti-imperialist organizations and individuals across the world condemn the rightwing coup against indigenous president Evo Morales that forced him and other members of the Bolivian government to resign.
This is a world writable google doc that you or your org may sign. Signin to google and use this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TDms1lcPEcVNddZAPzd3rjr15h2dsftyB12CAas7FXA/edit?usp=sharing
Click on ‘Organizations and Individuals’ in the left-side “outline”. This list is interesting - at least one WI activist signed. The doc is open/vulnerable – let’s hope it is not vandalized.
- http://accuracy.org/release/progressives-vote-to-extend-patriot-act/
Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus capitulated to the surveillance state last week, by supporting a continuing resolution that included a three month extension of Patriot Act mass surveillance authorities, which they claim to oppose. As Ed Snowden revealed, the NSA and FBI were using Section 215 of the Patriot Act to obtain the records of virtually every phone call made in the U.S. It was due to expire in December. The CPC could have demanded serious reforms, or forced the law to sunset. Instead, they gave in. On the bright side, activists now have three months to hold every member of Congress’ feet to the fire to insure a repeal of Section 215.
- https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/25/repeal-the-nearly-two-decade-old-war-authorizations/
This is current annual goal for FCNL advocacy teams.
There are two AUMF laws in place now from 2001 and 2002. Repealing and then replacing with a new AUMF is not what we want.
- http://www.wnpj.org/calendar
Wisconsin Network for Peace, Justice & Sustainability | calendar
Worth bookmarking. Covers WI and Northern IL.
- http://www.unz.com/mhudson/the-saker-interviews-michael-hudson/ | Oct 2019
The neoliberal western advisors who took control of these economies – as if this was the only alternative to Soviet bureaucracy – imposed crushing austerity programs to restore macroeconomic “stability” meaning security of their land and infrastructure grabs. […]
The Baltic states, especially Latvia, have lost about 30 percent of their population since the 1990s, especially those of working age. In Latvia, about 10 percent of the loss were Russians who exited shortly after independence. The other 20 percent have subsequently emigrated.
- https://celdf.org/2019/10/media-statement-florida-democrats-adopt-rights-of-nature-in-party-platform/?fbclid=IwAR3Jr2dPpmQZD-mTIR3g4CBgQhFwQNQAJ6iimfl8ZZriIhV4GUJmiJ467Ck
Also referenced here http://communityrights.us/2019/10/15/media-statement-florida-democrats-adopt-rights-of-nature-in-party-platform/
The action is the first of its kind by a state political party in the United States.
http://communityrights.us/2019/10/30/new-publication-do-it-yourself-community-rights/
- https://www.ecoshock.net/downloads/ES_191127_LoFi.mp3
“The American Carbon Bomb” .
Fracking => Texas and PA to become huge CO2 sources.
- http://ckuw.ca/128/20191108.13.00-14.00.mp3
Skip in 29:55 for Interview of former USA Green Pty VP candidate Ajamu Baraka on permanent war.
“where is the anti-war movement?”
- https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/717775570-user-901836666-fuel-price-hike-in-iran-opens-the-door-for-regime-change-agents.m4a
- About 30min audio (m4a). Warning: From a conservative website, I am still evaluating. Still it is an interesting discussion about the Iran Internet blackout after the fuel price hikes.
- https://www.mintpressnews.com/bolivia-coup-gov-targets-alternative-media-crackdown-increasingly-violent/262944/
‘New Bolivian government taking TeleSUR off the air in a process of “reorganizing” the media’
the new government has effectively declared the deposed Movement to Socialism (MAS) party illegal, arresting MAS officials and forcing others into hiding or exile in what new government minister Arturo Murillo called a “hunting” down of political opponents.
- http://traffic.libsyn.com/aroundtheempire/AroundtheEmpireEp033_Kovan.mp3?dest-id=455923
“A Syrian Kurdish Perspective featuring Kovan Direj” podcast w/interviewers Dan Wright & Joanne Leon.
I found this a bit slow and difficult, but well worth listening to – lot’s of general background on Syria. Kovan is a “life time” resident of Aleppo.
opcw whistleblower on alleged April 7, 2018 Douma chemical attack
- https://stephenlendman.org/2019/11/wikileaks-exposes-doctored-opcw-report-on-alleged-cw-attack-in-syria/
‘WikiLeaks Exposes Doctored OPCW Report on Alleged CW Attack in Syria’
The whistleblower said “this misrepresentation was achieved by selective omission, introducing a bias which undermines the credibility of the report.”
Material was redacted “at the behest of the Office of the Director General.”
- https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/11/24/new-opcw-leak-further-vindicates-skeptics-of-establishment-syria-narrative/
Related analysis (audio) : https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/717335749-user-901836666-second-whistleblower-exposes-cover-up-at-opcw-syria-chemical-weapons-report.m4a
- https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/22/douma-chlorine-gas-and-occams-razor/
Warning: This is by a leftist blogger LOUIS PROYECT with entirely the opposite view of the whistleblowers; i.e. he strongly supports OPCW basing this on work by GPPI researchers Theresa Lütkefend and Tobias Schneider
- http://news.infoshop.org/focus/after-facebook/
Tips on leaving facebook and google. Reasonably complete; appears they update this.
- http://communityrights.us/2019/11/22/wisconsin-town-of-chicog-update/
Right to a Healthy Climate Ordinance
Five members of the Washburn County Community Rights Alliance (WCCRA) attended the November town meeting at the Chicog Town Hall the evening of November 13th. One of the members of the WCCRA lives in the township. Back in April of 2019, with the help and support of the WCCRA, the Chicog Town citizen introduced the first version of our Right to a Healthy Climate Ordinance.
- https://foreignpolicyfollies.blogspot.com/2019/03/russiagate-skeptics.html
- Side effect of this March 2019 article – IMP long list of alternative news websites and authors to review.
- https://consortiumnews.com/2019/09/21/if-the-facts-come-out-it-could-spell-the-end-for-joe-biden/
Ray McGovern on Biden’s vulnerability.
In this video Biden admits on the record to essentially using a billion dollar line of credit as a bribe to get the prosecutor fired.
- http://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/715969567-therealnewsnetwork-exclusive-the-911-call-this-swat-team-doesnt-want-you-to-hear.mp3
- Police/swat team militarization; hidden police faces – police anonymity;body cams; right to video police w/your phone; right to not give out phone password; Interview with victim
Boliva
- https://progressivecommentaryhour.podbean.com/mf/play/y32d7m/PCH_112019.mp3
Prof William Robertson interviewed on Boliva. Prof of Latin American Studies, at UC Santa Barbera; also in their Global International Studies Program.
27:42 > Prof Jeb Spraque, UC Riverside. On Bolivia. His blog: https://JebSprague.blogspot.com
- https://fair.org/home/unpacking-media-propaganda-about-bolivias-election/
- GREGORY SHUPAK Nov 18
- https://fair.org/home/the-bolivian-coup-is-not-a-coup-because-us-wanted-it-to-happen/
The Bolivian Coup Is Not a Coup—Because US Wanted It to Happen | FAIR
http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/28562 US staged coup d’état in Bolivia | Intrepid Report.com
- https://www.globalresearch.ca/u-s-backed-fascist-coup-bolivia-crime-against-democracy/5695045
“Crime Against Democracy”: U.S. Backed Fascist Coup in Bolivia – GlobalRearch.ca
OFAC economic and trade sanctions
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Foreign_Assets_Control
- “The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is a financial intelligence and enforcement agency of the U.S. Treasury Department. It administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions in support of U.S. national security and foreign policy objectives.”
- https://www.ofac-guide.com/ofac-countries.htm
Sanctions guide.
OPCW [Douma, Syria]
https://popularresistance.org/the-hugely-important-opcw-scandal-keeps-unfolding-heres-why-no-ones-talking-about-it/ | Caitlin Johnstone
… leaked Engineering Assessment claiming the chlorine cylinders found at the crime scene were unlikely to have been dropped from the air, and that it was far more likely that they were manually placed there, i.e. staged, by the occupying opposition forces in Douma.
misc
- https://consortiumnews.com/2019/11/14/ray-mcgovern-ukraine-for-dummies/
RAY McGOVERN: Ukraine For Dummies – Consortiumnews
- http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/john-brennans-cia-trump-task-force/#p_1_12:1-66
- John Brennan’s CIA Trump Task Force, by Philip Giraldi - The Unz Review
- https://archives.kpfa.org/data/20191118-Mon1100.mp3
- Boeing plane manufacturing quality control vs safety| Ralph Nader. Whistleblower John Barnett. Boeing marketeers vs engineers.
older links:
voting
https://opensource.com/article/19/9/voting-fraud-open-source-solution
https://www.osetfoundation.org/blog : Trust The Blog — OSET Institute - Open Source Election Technology
- https://twitter.com/votingvillagedc
- DEFCON VotingVillage (@VotingVillageDC) | Twitter
misc
- https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/09/18/the-ultra-costly-underwhelming-f-35-fighter/
- The Ultra-Costly, Underwhelming F-35 Fighter - CounterPunch.org
- https://defendembassyprotectors.org/home/
- Defend GP activists Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers.
https://www.opensourceecology.org/gvcs/
- https://www.peterbcollins.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Ritter.mp3
- Weapons inspector Scott Ritter.
11/2017 Driscoll’s berries back on boycott list
Found on #boycottdriscools
they exploit and abuse their workers, paying as low as $6 a day (often under threat of reporting their undocumented workers to ICE)
http://alternativevisions.podbean.com/mf/feed/4wh7nw/ALtVisions_112417.mp3
Skip in 24:08.
Driscoll’s berries are now back on the boycott list.
$6 a day for 12-15 hours work is explotation, #boycottdriscools
skip in 11:56 “work week radio” 11/28/2017 podcast
https://popularresistance.org/boycott-driscolls-this-week-in-support-of-workers/
https://binationalcampaign.org/ - has flyer you may print -
https://www.facebook.com/BoycottDriscolls/
2017 April Mass PirateCon audio and video
https://www.youtube.com/user/masspirates
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Long Podcast Playlist, updated nightly
Since ~2007, nightly around 9:15pm Chicago time, from my podcast RSS feeds, I post my ~8 hour audio playlist. There is no music, it’s a progressive mix of: politics; deep state analysis; finance/banking/economy; environment; foreign policy; philosophy; software development; history; general news; labor news; law; science; health/diet …
I manually order & edit the ~8 hour play list as a PLS file starting from the results of a ‘goldenpod’ podcatcher search of my RSS feed list. Several previous play lists are combined w/the recent one, so playing the entire list should take days. The top dozen or so items in the list are “the best”.
The file format is PLS format which should be understood by VLC, or the mpv player. In the past firefox and chrome “knew what to do” with these playlists – sadly, not anymore in 2021; fortunately media player software like VLC “grok” PLC playlists.
Warning: In between each manually edited nightly playlist, I leave a range of “leftover query entries” which you may not reach until say 10 -14 hours; after these are the prior night’s manually edited nightly playlist, and so on… The “leftover query entries” may be marginal or bad quality – I leave them in because sometimes I overlook valuable entries, and want to be able to find them later.
Milwaukee air quality
best: https://www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_state&stateid=51
http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/airquality/Status.asp?county=Milwaukee
http://dnr.wi.gov/rss/dnr_airalerts.xml
http://airquality.wi.gov/StateMapping.aspx
http://legacy.weather.weatherbug.com/WI/Milwaukee-weather/air-quality.html
Peter Hudis Intro
Heard Hudis 1st on this podcast: https://archives.kpfa.org/data/20170508-Mon1200.mp3
They focus on “Life After Capitalism” and his book https://www.internationalmarxisthumanist.org/books/south-asian-edition-marxs-concept-alternative-capitalism.
The first section I started re-listening to starts at 18:24.
Key section 26:55 - 28:00
26:58 A rank and file workplace democracy, self organizing leadership
27:30 If workers are ruled by a government elite, within nationalized companies it is not communism, it’s State-Capitalism
He introduces the concept of ‘State-Capitalism’, where industries are nationalized but workers have only swapped capitalist elitist rulers for state ones.
Hudis overview
Review: Peter Hudis, Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism
https://www.internationalmarxisthumanist.org/authors/hudis-peter
European Economic Union History
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/05/09/european-unions-democracy-dilemma/ Nice historical overview, starts in 1957.
M825A1 artillery shell; WP/White Phosphorus “quiet shell”; air burst at altitude by dial-in fuse delay
If used at high altitude the danger is less, and the argument that the M825 WP shells are “safe” is closer to true.
https://www.defense-update.com/newscast/0109/analysis/analysis_080109_phosphorous.html
Accrding to IHS Jane’s Weapons Technology Analyst commenting on the discussions surrounding the Israeli use of white phosherous agents in Gaza, “The round so far specified as being fired are the M825A1 which is purely an air-burst white phosherous smoke projectile.” the analyst said. ‘It’s construction and function is highly elaborate and I would say deliberately so to make it inappropriate for anti-personnel use’. M825A1 shell is not defined as an incendiary weapon by the Third Protocol to the Convention on Conventional Weapons because its principal use is to produce smoke to protect troops. White Phosphorous weapons banned by theprotocol are ground or low level burst weapons designed primarily for anti-personnel use. The primary function of the M825A1 is for the rapid creation of a highly effective, but short lived visible and infrared smoke screen.
During the opening stages of Cast Lead land campaign, these munitions were employed at relatively low altitude,
https://rainbowwarrior2005.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/white-phosphorus-victims-in-gaza/
Outside the house lay evidence of the shelling Mrs Halima described. Two white phosphorus shell cases, originally painted light green but burnt by detonations with the metal bent back like tulip petals, were on the ground.
One still had the four tell-tale angle-irons inside to indicate a 155mm white phosphorus shell and was packed with unburned chemical. A poke with a stick to expose the chemical to oxygen was enough to set it burning again, sending out white smoke.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4442988.stm
“The boom kicked the dust around the pit as they ran through the drill again and again, sending a mixture of burning white phosphorus and high explosives they call ‘shake ’n bake’ into a cluster of buildings where insurgents have been spotted all week.”
https://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/smoke.htm
M825 white phosphorus. The M825 WP projectile is an FA-delivered 155-mm base-ejection projectile designed to produce a smoke screen on the ground for a duration of 5 to 15 minutes. It consists of two major components–the projectile carrier and the payload. The projectile carrier delivers the payload to the target. The payload consists of 116 WP-saturated felt wedges. The smoke screen is produced when a predetermined fuze action causes ejection of the payload from the projectile. After ejection, the WP-saturated felt wedges in the payload fall to the ground in an elliptical pattern. Each wedge then becomes a point or source of smoke. The M825 is ballistically similar to the M483A1 (DPICM) family of projectiles.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/m825.htm
M110A1 White Phosphorus (WP) projectiles are available for 105mm and 155mm howitzers.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/m110.htm
The M110 / M110A1 White Phosphorus (WP) projectiles are available for 105mm and 155mm howitzers. Used for screening, spotting and signaling purposes, they have an additional incendiary effect on a target and processes casualty producing effects. This burster-tube type projectile is ballistically similar to the M107 HE (155mm)and M1(105mm) projectiles. It can be fitted with a mechanical time Super Quick fuze M582 or M557/M739 PD fuze.
Jan 2009 White Phosphorus Used by Israel
Gary Null Show Thu Apr 6 2017
http://thegarynullshow.podbean.com/mf/feed/4aptpw/GaryNull_040517.mp3
- Discussion of the use of White Phosphorus in central Gaza: skip in 00:34:55.
Report excoriates Israel’s use of white phosphorous in Gaza
Israeli rebuttals on use of White Phosphorus
http://www.thomaswictor.com/they-lied-about-white-phosphorus/
… the M825A1 is not a weapon
The American 155mm M110A1 artillery shell is a white phosphorus MUNITION. It’s full to the brim with solid white phosphorus. THIS is what will burn you.
I lean away from above article, but will try keep an open mind.
The author claims the felt pads covered in WP burn out quickly. Her own video shows that the bright glow abruptly stops soon after hitting the ground; but I noticed a dim glow on the ground persists, and that smoke continues - so her own video (the first one shown) does not seem to support her. Another link below suggests they burn continuing to make smoke for about 10 min.
Below I follow up below with related links:
Neil Gibson, technical adviser to Jane’s Missiles and Rockets, insisted that the M825A1 was a WP round. “The M825A1 is an improved model. The WP does not fill the shell but is impregnated into 116 felt wedges which, once dispersed [by a high-explosive charge], start to burn within four to five seconds. They then burn for five to ten minutes. The smoke screen produced is extremely effective,” he said.
The M825A1 shell can create a smokescreen that lasts about 10 minutes and contains 116 felt wedges impregnated with white phosphorus that jettison and automatically ignite when they come in contact with the air.
“Coalition forces use these rounds with caution and always in accordance with the Law of Armed Conflict. When M825A1 rounds are employed, they are done so in areas free of civilians and never against enemy forces,” Scrocca said
US use of White Phosphorus
Economic Motive for America’s Current Wars by Eric Zuesse
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-economic-motive-for-americas-current-wars/5597226
Russia has long been the chief seller of energy — mainly gas and oil — in the world’s largest energy-market: the EU, or Europe.
Zuesse says the Obama administration
started, by no later than 2011, its preparations for a coup in Ukraine, which occurred in February 2014, to overthrow the democratically elected President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, who, as had been planned and expected by the U.S. government, turned down the EU’s offer of membership because the highly uneconomic arrangement that the EU was offering would have cost Ukraine an estimated $160 billion. The U.S. government knew he’d turn it down, which is why, when he did say no, on 21 November 2013, the Obama regime had everything prepared to launch
The EU nations weren’t eager to take that $160B burden onto themselves, it was laid entirely upon Ukraine, take-it-or-leave-it, and Ukraine rejected it — and so rejected the rest of the U.S. team’s offer. But Obama’s agent who handled Ukraine continued to run into resistance from the EU, because EU leaders weren’t as fascist as today’s U.S. leaders are. On 4 February 2014, in a phone call to the U.S. Ambassador in Kiev, Obama’s agent on Ukraine said “F—k the EU!” about Europe’s concerns, and to impose atop the post-coup government “Yats” or Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who would do what the U.S. government wanted and would ignore the needs of either Ukrainians or Europeans.
US support of violent neo-Nazis in Ukraine: Video Compilation https://youtu.be/8-RyOaFwcEw?t=229
Syria Conflict- Index/Capstone Links
Collection of ‘this-blog-internal’ links on Syria Conflict. I organized my Syria links and quote snips, which have been collected over the years. Following through these links should take a few days. Have made an effort to ‘vet the writers’ - typically a 20-40 min web search on them. Several I read or listen to regularly; some maybe new to me – I try to indicate how familiar I am with a writer.
table of contents
List of Syrian-Conlict Journalists and sources
Michel Chossudovsky Intro
Seymour M Hersh
Gareth Porter
Stephen Gowans intro
Eric Zuesse Intro
Vanessa Beely Intro
Rick Sterling Intro
Eva Bartlett intro
sydney.edu.au Prof Tim Anderson Intro
Chris Kanthan intro
Citizen Journalist Mark Taliano intro
Tulsi Gabbard Intro
Abby Martin Intro
Origins and Overview of Syrian Conflict 2011+
Us war in Syria planned since 1983 ?
veteranstoday articles need close scrutiny/fact checking, given that warning, take a look:
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2019/09/19/cia-top-secret-file-the-us-war-in-syria-planned-since-1983/
‘Deliberate Destabilisation of Syria’ by Sheila Coombes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ah9fFCSULo
These links suggest US funded opposition started in 2009.
Apr 2014, S Hersh. the-red-line-and-the-rat-line
The Revolutionary Distemper in Syria That Wasn’t by Stephen Gowans 10/2016
http://handsoffsyria.blogspot.com/2018/02/syrian-war-for-dummies-three-versions.html
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/the-us-empire-has-been-trying-to-regime-change-syria-since-long-before-2011-40d4e6648d54
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/157412-syria-hidden-massacre-2011/
What we do know for certain is that on April 25, 2011, nineteen Syrian soldiers were gunned down in Daraa by unknown assailants. The names, ages, dates of birth and death, place of birth and death and marital/parental status of these 19 soldiers are documented in a list of military casualties obtained from Syria’s Defense Ministry.
The list was corroborated by another document – given to me by a non-government acquaintance involved in peace efforts – that details 2011 security casualties. All 19 names were verified by this second list.
April 10 was also the day when we learned of the first massacre of Syrian soldiers – in Banyas, Tartous – when nine troops were ambushed and gunned down on a passing bus.
Ashton disclosed suspicions that pro-west snipers had killed both Ukranian security forces and civilians during the Euromaidan protests.
Says Paet: “All the evidence shows that people who were killed by snipers from both sides, among policemen and people from the streets, that they were the same snipers killing people from both sides…and it’s really disturbing that now the new (pro-western) coalition, they don’t want to investigate what exactly happened.”
A recent German TV investigation the sniper shootings confirms much about these allegations, and has opened the door to contesting versions of events in Ukraine that did not exist for most of the Syrian conflict –
Since early 2011 alone, we have heard allegations of “unknown” snipers targeting crowds and security forces in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria and Ukraine. What could be more effective at turning populations against authority than the unprovoked killing of unarmed innocents? By the same token, what could better ensure a reaction from the security forces of any nation than the gunning down of one or more of their own?
https://www.nationofchange.org/2017/04/23/syrian-war-dummies-three-versions/
2011
In early 2011, U.S./UK special forces used Jordan’s military base to organize protests against Assad in a border town called Daraa. With Muslim Brotherhood’s organizational skills and Saudi Arabia’s deep pockets, the protests spread thru Syria. Soon, an organized and armed militia known as Free Syrian Army (FSA) was created by the outsiders.
2011: Special Ops from U.S./UK/Turkey were inside Syria, training the rebels
jan 2017 https://www.globalresearch.ca/whats-really-happening-in-syria-who-started-the-war-who-can-you-trust-to-tell-the-truth/5570297
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_globalupraising06.htm
The demonstrations started in Daraa, a small border town of 75,000 inhabitants, on the Syrian Jordanian border, rather than in Damascus or Aleppo, where the mainstay of organized political opposition and social movements are located. (Daraa is a small border town comparable e.g. to Plattsburgh, NY on the US-Canadian border).
https://www.globalresearch.ca/daraa-2011-syrias-islamist-insurrection-in-disguise/5460547
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48152.htm
Here are the simple facts: Libya and Syria were a tad bit too independent and successful, and thus have been targeted by globalists for a long time. Ukraine, which borders Russia, is a treasured piece on the geopolitical chessboard – get Ukraine and Crimea, you weaken Russia immensely.
The fundamental ploy in Libya, Syria and Ukraine was the same: rile up the population and then stage a coup in the midst of chaos, while claiming to liberate the people.
Let’s hop on the time machine back to 2011…
https://www.activistpost.com/2017/06/7-secrets-world-revealed-syrian-war.html
Daraa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daraa
http://www.uweness.eu/myths-about-syria.html
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/336934-syria-war-conflict-narrative/
http://archive.almanar.com.lb/english/article.php?id=7353
Apr 2014, S Hersh. the-red-line-and-the-rat-line
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line
the gas used didn’t match the batches known to exist in the Syrian army’s chemical weapons arsenal
–snip
The joint chiefs also knew that the Obama administration’s public claims that only the Syrian army had access to sarin were wrong. The American and British intelligence communities had been aware since the spring of 2013 that some rebel units in Syria were developing chemical weapons.
–snip
The UK defence staff who relayed the Porton Down findings to the joint chiefs were sending the Americans a message, the former intelligence official said: ‘We’re being set up here.’ (This account made sense of a terse message a senior official in the CIA sent in late August: ‘It was not the result of the current regime. UK & US know this.’)
–snip
Dempsey’s initial view after 21 August was that a US strike on Syria – under the assumption that the Assad government was responsible for the sarin attack – would be a military blunder, the former intelligence official said. The Porton Down report caused the joint chiefs to go to the president with a more serious worry: that the attack sought by the White House would be an unjustified act of aggression.
–snip
The Obama administration has never publicly admitted to its role in creating what the CIA calls a ‘rat line’, a back channel highway into Syria. The rat line, authorised in early 2012, was used to funnel weapons and ammunition from Libya via southern Turkey and across the Syrian border to the opposition. Many of those in Syria who ultimately received the weapons were jihadists, some of them affiliated with al-Qaida.
–snip
A highly classified annex to the report, not made public, described a secret agreement reached in early 2012 between the Obama and Erdoğan administrations. It pertained to the rat line. By the terms of the agreement, funding came from Turkey, as well as Saudi Arabia and Qatar; the CIA, with the support of MI6, was responsible for getting arms from Gaddafi’s arsenals into Syria. A number of front companies were set up in Libya, some under the cover of Australian entities. Retired American soldiers, who didn’t always know who was really employing them, were hired to manage procurement and shipping. The operation was run by David Petraeus, the CIA director –snip
The operation had not been disclosed at the time it was set up to the congressional intelligence committees and the congressional leadership, as required by law since the 1970s. The involvement of MI6 enabled the CIA to evade the law by classifying the mission as a liaison operation.
–snip
‘The consulate’s only mission was to provide cover for the moving of arms,’ the former intelligence official, who has read the annex, said. ‘It had no real political role.’
–snip
Washington abruptly ended the CIA’s role in the transfer of arms from Libya after the attack on the consulate, but the rat line kept going. ‘The United States was no longer in control of what the Turks were relaying to the jihadists,’ the former intelligence official said. Within weeks, as many as forty portable surface-to-air missile launchers, commonly known as manpads, were in the hands of Syrian rebels.
So called Syrian chemical weapons Incidents
4/4/2017 Trump’s Idlib/Khan Shaykhun Syria Missle Strike
Aug 2013 Syria “Sarin Gas” incident
Syria: Whose Sarin? London Review of Books, S Hersh, 12/19/2013
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n24/seymour-m-hersh/whose-sarin
4/4/2017 Trump’s Idlib/Khan Shaykhun Syria Missle Strike
The Syria Idlib/Khan Shaykhun attack on Apr 4, and the US missile response on Apr 6:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Shaykhun
The missile attack on Shayrat airbase:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shayrat
Gareth Porter Interview Sep 2017 on Apr 4 Syria Khan Shaykhun incident
http://peterbcollins.com/podcast/PBC_20170919p2112.mp3
Have We Been Deceived Over Syrian Sarin Attack? by Gareth Porter 9/13/17
http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/what-really-happened-khan-sheikhoun
a conventional weapon dropped by a Syrian plane struck barrels of a pesticide that created deadly phosphine gas that caused symptoms paralleling those of sarin and capable of causing mass casualties.
–snip
Chemical weapons have only very small amounts of explosives in the “burster mechanism”—enough to open up the bomb to disperse the chemical, but not enough to cause a crater in the pavement. If a chemical munition had contained enough high explosives to create a large hole in the pavement, it would have burned up the chemical to be dispensed and could not have caused the mass casualties seen in Khan Sheikhoun.
–snip
less than two hours after the alleged explosion at the site, showing (at 1.12) the road near the crater completely clear of pieces of asphalt and other debris.
–snip
It was not the first time that those working under al Qaeda authority had arranged a falsified bomb crater scene to shape international opinion. After an attack on a Syrian Red Crescent aid convoy west of Aleppo last September, the White Helmets photographed the crumpled tailfin of a Russian OFAB-250 bomb in a crater in a warehouse.
–snip
the known characteristics of aluminum phosphide and the symptoms of the victims all indicate a very different explanation: A Syrian high explosive bomb hit supplies of aluminum phosphide stored in a building in the northeast area of Khan Sheikhoun, releasing a cloud of deadly phosphine gas, which caused the deaths and injuries.
–snip
accounts from a number of eyewitnesses indicate that an airstrike hit a two-story building about 240 meters southwest of the crater the local authorities and activists claim had been left by the strike, as well as a second building another 100 meters southwest. Photographs in a report by activists belonging to NGOs who support the armed opposition show (pp. 34-35) what had been a two-story cinderblock building that was completely destroyed by the airstrike.
–snip
The initial Russian-Syrian account of the event also distracted attention from the real Syrian airstrike in Khan Sheikhoun and the question of what they anticipated would be the consequences of bombing supplies of aluminum phosphide.
The article continues, but I stopped here.
Craig Murray intro
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Craig_Murray#_ba6793509f3a9343b276e0446f18acd3
http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=craig_murray_1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Murray
Work by or about Craig Murray
https://www.amazon.com/Craig-Murray/e/B001JS4W1A/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1491409154&sr=1-2-ent
Robert Stuart intro
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Robert_Stuart
https://bbcpanoramasavingsyriaschildren.wordpress.com
TODO - same person?: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-stewart-b8596322
work by or about Robert Stuart
~80min ROBERT STUART PRESENTATION ON BBC PANORAMA ‘SAVING SYRIA’S CHILDREN’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu6TlmHnd4c
20min+ Nov 2017 Podcast about 2013 Sarin, skip in 6:22
Aug 2013 Syria “Sarin Gas” incident
20min+ Nov 2017 Podcast, skip in 6:22
Syria: Whose Sarin? London Review of Books, S Hersh, 12/19/2013
[Syria: Whose Sarin? London Review of Books, S Hersh, 12/19/2013](#punch_SyriaO072O_Whose_SarinO077O_London_Review_of_BooksAcomaA_December_19AcomaA_2013)
https://whoghouta.blogspot.com
6/25/17 S Hersh: Apr 4 Khan Sheikhoun bombing/Apr 6 US Missile Strike
The highly decorated Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh is back again, throwing yet another monkey wrench in the propaganda narratives of the US war machine.
Hersh’s latest piece, titled “Trump’s Red Line”, was published in the German publication Welt am Sonntag, reportedly after London Review of Books backed out for fear that it would make them “vulnerable to criticism for seeming to take the view of the Syrian and Russian governments”.
Below I quote from where I first found the article this morning (6/26): https://riseuptimes.org/2017/06/25/seymour-hersh-syria-trumps-red-line/
Russian intelligence, which is shared when necessary with Syria and the U.S. as part of their joint fight against jihadist groups, had established that a high-level meeting of jihadist leaders was to take place in the building, including representatives of Ahrar al-Sham and the al-Qaida-affiliated group formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra. The two groups had recently joined forces, and controlled the town and surrounding area. Russian intelligence depicted the cinder-block building as a command and control center that housed a grocery and other commercial premises on its ground floor with other essential shops nearby, including a fabric shop and an electronics store.
–snip
“It was an established meeting place,” the senior adviser said. “A long-time facility that would have had security, weapons, communications, files and a map center.” The Russians were intent on confirming their intelligence and deployed a drone for days above the site to monitor communications and develop what is known in the intelligence community as a POL – a pattern of life.
–snip
“It was a red-hot change. The mission was out of the ordinary – scrub the sked,” the senior adviser told me. “Every operations officer in the region” – in the Army, Marine Corps, Air Force, CIA and NSA – “had to know there was something going on. The Russians gave the Syrian Air Force a guided bomb and that was a rarity. They’re skimpy with their guided bombs and rarely share them with the Syrian Air Force. And the Syrians assigned their best pilot to the mission, with the best wingman.” The advance intelligence on the target, as supplied by the Russians, was given the highest possible score inside the American community.
–snip
“This was not a chemical weapons strike,” the adviser said. “That’s a fairy tale. If so, everyone involved in transferring, loading and arming the weapon – you’ve got to make it appear like a regular 500-pound conventional bomb – would be wearing Hazmat protective clothing in case of a leak. There would be very little chance of survival without such gear. Military grade sarin includes additives designed to increase toxicity and lethality. Every batch that comes out is maximized for death. That is why it is made. It is odorless and invisible and death can come within a minute.
–snip
evidence suggested that there was more than one chemical responsible for the symptoms observed, which would not have been the case if the Syrian Air Force – as opposition activists insisted – had dropped a sarin bomb, which has no percussive or ignition power to trigger secondary explosions. The range of symptoms is, however, consistent with the release of a mixture of chemicals, including chlorine and the organophosphates used in many fertilizers, which can cause neurotoxic effects similar to those of sarin.
–snip
“Did the Syrians plan the attack on Khan Sheikhoun? Absolutely. Do we have intercepts to prove it? Absolutely. Did they plan to use sarin? No.
–snip
“What doesn’t occur to most Americans” the adviser said, “is if there had been a Syrian nerve gas attack authorized by Bashar, the Russians would be 10 times as upset as anyone in the West. Russia’s strategy against ISIS, which involves getting American cooperation, would have been destroyed and Bashar would be responsible for pissing off Russia, with unknown consequences for him. Bashar would do that? When he’s on the verge of winning the war? Are you kidding me?”
–snip
Within hours of viewing the photos, the adviser said, Trump instructed the national defense apparatus to plan for retaliation against Syria. “He did this before he talked to anybody about it. The planners then asked the CIA and DIA if there was any evidence that Syria had sarin stored at a nearby airport or somewhere in the area. Their military had to have it somewhere in the area in order to bomb with it.” “The answer was, ‘We have no evidence that Syria had sarin or used it,’” the adviser said. “The CIA also told them that there was no residual delivery for sarin at Sheyrat [the airfield from which the Syrian SU-24 bombers had taken off on April 4] and Assad had no motive to commit political suicide.”
–snip
Sarin actually is very easy to detect because it penetrates paint, and all one would have to do is get a paint sample.
–snip
The intelligence made clear that a Syrian Air Force SU-24 fighter bomber had used a conventional weapon to hit its target: There had been no chemical warhead. And yet it was impossible for the experts to persuade the president of this once he had made up his mind.
–snip
“Everyone close to him knows his proclivity for acting precipitously when he does not know the facts,” the adviser said. “He doesn’t read anything and has no real historical knowledge. He wants verbal briefings and photographs. He’s a risk-taker. He can accept the consequences of a bad decision in the business world; he will just lose money.
–snip
Option two was a slap on the wrist: to bomb an airfield in Syria, but only after alerting the Russians and, through them, the Syrians, to avoid too many casualties. A few of the planners called this the “gorilla option”: America would glower and beat its chest to provoke fear and demonstrate resolve, but cause little significant damage.
R Parry Jun 7 http://www.globalresearch.ca/nyts-new-syria-sarin-report-challenged/5594620
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2017/04/67102.html
White House Declassified Four Page Report Accusing “Assad Regime” of Using Chemical Weapons “Against Its Own People”
The above pdf link is from global research.
I find it interesting that the pdf contains no fonts, it is an image; I find that annoying - makes it harder to quote.
The report discredit’s itself in the last paragraph reasserting that Assad used CW in Aug 2013 - this has been proven wrong by Seymour Hersh.
http://original.antiwar.com/veteran-intelligence-professionals-for-sanity2/2017/04/28/mattis-politicized-intelligence-on-syrian-chemical-claim/
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/04/28/seymour-hersh-hillary-approved-sending-libya-sarin-syrian-rebels.html
http://www.globalresearch.ca/top-ten-reasons-to-doubt-official-story-on-assad-poison-gas-attack/5585122
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2017/04/addendum-dr-theodore-postols-assessment-white-house-report-syria-chemical-attack.html
The data provided in these photographs make it clear that the WHR made no serious attempt to collect data that would support its “confident assessment” that there was data to unambiguously support a conclusion that the Syrian government executed a sarin attack as indicated by the location and characteristics of the crater.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/40222-new-revelations-belie-trump-claims-on-syria-chemical-attack
The airstrike she saw appears to be the one that was the objective of the Syrian operation in Khan Sheikhoun. The mushroom cloud she saw seems to be the widest of the three mushroom clouds shown in a video taken sometime after the explosion.
Dr. Theodore Postol of MIT, who debunked the original official claims of the location of rockets that hit Syria’s Ghouta area with what appeared to be sarin on August 21, 2013, has come to a different conclusion. Postol says that the carcass of the delivery vehicle – shown in last week’s video and in still photos of the small crater – indicates that the chemical attack was not delivered via airstrike but from the spot on the road where it was found.
video: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/04/07/larry-wilkerson-on-syria-false-flag-to-cover-trumps-ass/
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/04/07/trump-lied-fmr-ambassador-peter-ford-busts-false-flag-gas-attack/
Peter Ford is emphatic that this incident will spur ISIS or others to stage similar attacks to trigger further USA (misinformed/wrongful) retaliation.
https://worldaffairs.blog/2017/04/04/false-flag-or-fake-chemical-gas-attack-in-syria/
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/04/08/us-strikes-syria-trump-vpresident-who-no-longer-calls-shots.html
Russia’s military insisted that the chemicals were dispersed when Syrian warplanes bombed a facility where militants stored chemical weapons (CW). Russian Deputy Ambassador Vladimir Safronkov told the UN Security Council that neither Moscow nor Damascus bore any responsibility for the attack, adding that the video footage was «staged». «All of this is being done to create the necessary information and propaganda environment», said Maria Zakharova, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman.
Indeed, the exposure to sarin begins to target the muscle and nervous system almost immediately but the pictures show White Helmets handling the corpses of people without sufficient safety gear. Only masks are used, they don’t bother about the exposed skin! It strikes an eye.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/04/06/putin-rebukes-netanyahu-over-groundless-accusations-on-suspected-chemical-incident-in-syria/
The Russian Defense Ministry said the Syrian military carried out airstrikes in Khan Sheikhoun on April 4, hitting production facilities where terrorists stored chemicals, which were previously used in Iraq and the Syrian city of Aleppo.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem has dismissed any accusations that the Syrian Army deployed chemical weapons in Idlib.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/04/06/moscow-insists-chemical-weapons-were-not-used-in-syrias-idlib/
Russia’s Defense Ministry later said that on April 4, the Syrian air force had delivered an airstrike on the eastern outskirts of Khan Shaykhun to destroy militant facilities used to produce chemical bombs. These bombs were sent to Iraq and were previously used in Aleppo.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/syria-trumps-bush-obama-wmd-remix/5584046
http://www.globalresearch.ca/syria-the-truth-behind-the-idleb-chemical-attack-chemical-weapons-were-stored-and-ppossessed-by-terrorist-groups/5583700
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/04/05/another-dangerous-rush-to-judgment-in-syria/
NYT v. Russia on Tuesday’s Syria CW Attack by Stephen Lendman
US afraid of real investigation into Syria chemical incident – Russian deputy UN envoy
http://www.dailystormer.com/ny-times-journalist-who-lied-about-saddam-wmds-now-claiming-assad-used-wmds/
http://www.unz.com/proberts/trump-has-surrendered-will-putin-be-the-next-to-surrender/
Rick Sterling Apr 7 http://ahtribune.com/us/trump-at-war/1597-war-on-syria.html
http://www.globalresearch.ca/false-flag-ron-paul-says-syrian-chemical-attack-makes-no-sense/5583844
Syria Conflict - misc on going article or audio collection
Vanessa Beely interviewed by Gary Null about Damascus snipers in Feb 2018
Vanessa is a young, self funded on the ground investigative journalist in touch with the Syrian people.
ckuw/global research on False narratives from Left on Syria Conflict | audio/mp3
audio: Kurds/YPG by Steven Gowans Jul 2017
Eva Bartlett 27min video interview 5/4/2017
Eva Bartlett: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIwTEftfTtg
The Revolutionary Distemper in Syria That Wasn’t by Stephen Gowans 10/2016
Canadian Stephen Gowans 10/2016 The Revolutionary Distemper in Syria That Wasn’t
Vanessa Beely interviewed by Gary Null on Syria:
https://progressivecommentaryhour.podbean.com/mf/play/e6p5k2/PCH_052317.mp3
The Real Syria Story No One Wants You to Know About per ‘Newsbud’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGEc-CMsrQs
Groups Against USA Involvment in Syria
https://handsoffsyriacoalition.net/
http://keywiki.org/Hands_Off_Syria_Coalition
https://twitter.com/handsoffsyria
http://www.syriasolidaritymovement.org/2017/01/21/mini-primer-on-syria-by-former-assist-attorney-general-ny-oregon/
http://www.answercoalition.org/hands_off_syria
Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies (CCHS) conference
White Helmets (Syria)
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/White_Helmets
http://21stcenturywire.com/tag/White-Helmets/
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2018/04/15/terror-fraudsters-clooney-and-trump-and-their-white-helmets/
for nearly 4 years, Russia tried to introduce evidence to the UNSC in order to prove assertions made by the Syrian Human Rights Observatory and the White Helmets were, in fact, fabrications by pro-terrorist propaganda organizations funded by western intelligence agencies.
http://www.unz.com/article/is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-the-trump-presidency/
Vanesa Beely on white helmets: https://youtu.be/R6utDs1b_TU
Corbett Report: The White Helmets are a Propaganda Construct: https://youtu.be/3vNwe7yKbwo
Gary Null supplied these two reports in Oct 2017:
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/02/24/syrian-war-propaganda-at-the-oscars/
Oct 9 Guardian Attack on Vanessa Beeley’s coverage of White Helmets
40 min video interview of Vanessa on Oct 9 2017: https://youtu.be/7vhICmknhuY
Syria Conflict Websites
These sites are in my RSS feed list or otherwise notable:
Stephen Gowans blog
You may need to scroll past Stephan’s 1st post: https://gowans.blog/category/syria/
http://www.syriasolidaritymovement.org/
http://handsoffsyria.blogspot.com/
Search of www.globalresearch.ca
Search of original.antiwar.com
Search of consortiumnews.com
http://hamiltoncoalitiontostopthewar.ca/
Search of www.strategic-culture.org
https://www.syrianews.cc/
Stephen Gowans intro
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Stephen_Gowans
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stephen_Gowans
What’s Left https://gowans.wordpress.com/
work by or about Stephen Gowans:
Stephen Gowans Syria Articles in “What’s Left”
Book Review: Washington’s Long War on Syria, by Stephen Gowans
interviews:
June 2017 interview http://www.radio4all.net/files/anonymous@radio4all.net/16-1-CanadasGovernmentNotSuperior160.mp3
Sep 2017:
http://www.radio4all.net/files/cheryl@ct911truth.org/4212-1-SSTEPHEN_GOWANS_PART_1.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/cheryl@ct911truth.org/4212-1-STEPHEN_GOWANS_PART_2.mp3
Reese Erlich
TODO
https://reeseerlich.com/about/
Reese Erlich’s history in journalism goes back over 40 years. He worked as a staff writer and research editor for Ramparts, an investigative reporting magazine published in San Francisco. Today he works as a full-time print and broadcast, freelance reporter. He reports regularly for National Public Radio, ABC (Australia),and Radio Deutsche Welle. His articles appear in Vice News and Foreign Policy. His television documentaries have aired on PBS stations nationwide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reese_Erlich
familiarity: 1st heard on Mon 16 Apr 2018
Work by or about Reese Erlich
https://reeseerlich.com/syria-timeline/
https://archives.kpfa.org/data/20180415-Sun0900.mp3
Gareth Porter intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Porter
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Gareth_Porter
Investigative historian and journalist on the national security state and author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare (2014).
https://www.facebook.com/gareth.porter.75
Gareth Porter books
The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare (2014) by Gareth Porter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufactured_Crisis:_The_Untold_Story_of_the_Iran_Nuclear_Scare
https://www.amazon.com/Manufactured-Crisis-Untold-Story-Nuclear/dp/1935982338
https://harpers.org/blog/2014/05/manufactured-crisis-the-untold-story-of-the-iran-nuclear-scare/
Gareth Porter writes for or syndicated by these sites
http://original.antiwar.com/author/porter/
http://www.middleeasteye.net/users/gareth-porter
Gareth Porter is an independent investigative journalist and winner of the 2012 Gellhorn Prize for journalism. He is the author of the newly published Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare.
http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/44886
Hands Off Syria Coalition (youtu.be) Presentation — New York City, July 2017
https://youtu.be/-HOgPsZkCM8?t=722
Vanessa Beely Intro
2018 Vanessa Beeley named by NCTJ as one of Britain’s ‘Most Respected Journalists’
According to the NCTJ, this year’s awardees were nominated by other professional journalists who picked “who they most respect in the media,” and “most embodies the values of journalism that they respect and adhere to,” as part of the NCTJ’s Journalists at Work 2018 survey.
On the ground, self funded, investigative journalist covering Syria, Gaza, and Yemen conflicts. Associative editor at 21stcenturywire.com. Part of a US Peace Council delgation to Syria in 2016. Known for her coverage of white helmets.
She takes risks, reports from Syria war zones - Aleppo and Damascus for example.
https://en.gravatar.com/farashah77
Daughter of Sir Harold Beeley K.C.M.G C.B.E. Middle Eastern Advisor to Ernest Bevin and Special Envoy to Cairo during both Suez Crises.
I am an independent researcher, writer and photographer. I am 100% self-funding which enables me to maintain my independence, unlike so many of the mainstream media and state sponsored so called independent media outlets who are influenced by their donor agendas. I focus also on peace activism and defend the sovereignty of nations and the self determination of their peoples without foreign intervention or destructive meddling in independent state affairs.
[…]
My work is re-published at the Ron Paul Institute, Global Research, Dissident Voice, Sott., Greanville Post, The London Journal among others
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Vanessa_Beeley
http://www.keywiki.org/Vanessa_Beeley
https://thewallwillfall.org/about/
http://21stcenturywire.com/author/21vbeeley/
https://www.facebook.com/vanessa.beeley
https://twitter.com/vanessabeeley?lang=en
Critics of Vanessa Beeley
Guardian Attack on Vanessa Beeley’s coverage of White Helmets
What makes her an authority on Syrian politics when she doesn’t appear to have any experience at all outside of that independent research? Did her father’s stature give her entry to the inner circles of Assad? How can she claim there was no 2011 popular uprising against Assad when Syrians & Palestinians who were there testify otherwise?
misc articles/videos w/or by Vanessa Beely:
https://thewallwillfall.org/author/farashah77
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p8oGQ4RPFQ
https://www.icit-digital.org/people/vanessa-beeley
http://alternativeview.co.uk/index.php?route=information/information&information_id=50
https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2017/01/30/getting-real-news-from-aleppo-with-vanessa-beeley/
Tulsi Gabbard Intro
Tulsi Gabbard: A few Articles/Videos about or by :
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/05/24/exclusive-a-statement-from-tulsi-gabbard/
bill, HR 608, the Stop Arming Terrorists Act
TODO
late Apr 2017, Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies (CCHS) conference
Addresses Syria Conflict.
Conference preview featuring Prof Tim Anderson
Conference videos: https://counter-hegemonic-studies.net/category/conferences/syria-conference-2017/
Brendan Stone interview of Prof Tim Anderson covering the conference.
Opposition press coverage pre-conference
Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies (CCHS)
https://counter-hegemonic-studies.net/cchs-about/
The Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies (CCHS) was formed in early 2016 after concern that many western academic bodies constrain, censor and marginalise counter-hegemonic or anti-imperial research and discussion, due to their close ties with government and corporate sponsors.
This conditioning of debate over imperialism, neo-colonialism and struggles for self-determination limits research and debate. It places an effective gag on academic discussion of important contemporary matters.
http://mickhartley.typepad.com/blog/2017/04/the-centre-for-counter-hegemonic-studies.html
Don Debar CPR intro
Senior Producer at Community Public Radio in NYC. Don seems to be an older seasoned (reporter?) http://cprmetro.blogspot.com/ , w/smokers voice, is cynical about Dems; possibly Marxist–Leninist.
I have listened to him on and off over several years, and he is gradually making a better and better impression. A bit old fashioned “in a good way”, focuses on real news, and is not afraid to use bulk on the 30 min on a verbatim recording of a press conference for example. He has a set of interesting correspondents - he interviews each of them repeatedly on a particular weekday, including one in Moscow.
I think I’m getting the RSS feed indirectly through http://radio4all.net/podcast.xml (yes you have to weed through a bunch, but I automate that). You can get the shows direct from: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/contributor/4910
Example show: http://www.radio4all.net/files/CPRmetro@gmail.com/4910-1-TODAYS_NEWS_031017_EM_limited.mp3
https://www.linkedin.com/in/don-debar-9b579a23/
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:Libya_Coverage_-_A_Peek_Behind_the_Curtain
https://store.counterpunch.org/don-debar-laura-carlsen-episode-22/
On CPR: http://thepowerofvoices.com/shows/cpr-news/
Might be best way to reach: https://www.facebook.com/don.debar
Cheryl Curtis 911 Researcher Intro
- 911 Wake-up Call Podcast
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/91953
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/contributor/4212
Credits: 9/11 Wake-Up Call is a weekly program that challenges the official account of 9/11, which cannot possibly be true, through interviews with key members of the 9/11 Truth Movement, audio clips of revelant speeches, and through discussion of the latest 9/11 and related deep state news. Notes: 9/11 Wake-Up Call is produced in the studio of WWUH 91.3 FM at the University of Hartford and airs weekly on Wednesdays at 12:00 pm and again at 8:00 pm at WWUH 91.3 FM http://www.wwuh.org and on Tuesdays at 2:00 pm on WESU 88.1 FM at Wesylan University. It can be heard streaming live at both stations. It is also now carried by No Lies Radio. Earlier editions of the show can be found at http://www.ct911truth.org
Cheryl and Kevin Barrett have worked together, both have been active at the left forum in 2016/2017.
WWUH 91.3 FM at the University of Hartford http://www.wwuh.org
WESU 88.1 FM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesleyan_University
Media Integrity in General
On going collection of links.
M Huff/Proj Censored 20190712 | mp3
fake news & truth emergency: 1:35 Clinton election loss blamed on fake news: 02:50 examples: 4:42 nothing new …5:51 fake news is propaganda: 6:24 fake news “how to” Edward Bernes 8:17
On ‘prop or not’ list: https://consortiumnews.com/2018/01/28/unpacking-the-shadowy-outfit-behind-2017s-biggest-fake-news-story/
partial list of sites deprecated by google, by Gary Null, 2017
“Fake News” I’m not sure we’re all talking about the same thing. | Project Censored mp3; Dec 2017
Amy Goodman ‘Democracy Now’ Integrity
Open Letter to Amy Goodman ‘Democracy Now’ re Syria Coverage
https://progressivecommentaryhour.podbean.com/mf/play/e6p5k2/PCH_052317.mp3 Skip in 15m42s for discussion of ‘Democracy Now’ Syrian coverage.
- http://www.globalresearch.ca/war-veterans-ask-democracy-now-for-real-investigative-reporting-on-syria-many-progressives-seem-totally-blind/5590633
- https://www.blackagendareport.com/activists_confront_amy_goodman_on_syria
Washington Post Integrity
https://consortiumnews.com/2013/03/19/why-wposts-hiatt-should-be-fired
how could Hiatt still have the same important job at the Washington Post after being catastrophically wrong about the justifications for going to war and after smearing war critics who tried to expose some of Bush’s lies to the American people? How could the U.S. news media be so upside-down in its principles that honest journalists get fly-specked and fired, while dishonest ones get life-time job security?
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/05/22/does-washington-post-have-fake-news.html
New York Times Credibility
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/10/25/nyts-assault-of-press-freedom/
https://web.archive.org/web/20190106175810/https://washingtonsblog.com/2017/09/typical-deception-new-york-times.html
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/09/15/the-nyts-yellow-journalism-on-russia/
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/09/05/typical-deception-by-new-york-times.html
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/06/29/nyt-finally-retracts-russia-gate-canard/
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/04/28/more-nyt-spin-on-the-syria-sarin-case/
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/04/06/nyt-retreats-on-2013-syria-sarin-claims/
http://www.dailystormer.com/ny-times-journalist-who-lied-about-saddam-wmds-now-claiming-assad-used-wmds/
http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-propaganda-on-ukraine-new-york-times-retracts-russian-photo-scoop/5379111
https://consortiumnews.com/2014/04/21/another-nyt-michael-gordon-special/
https://www.democracynow.org/2004/5/26/online_exclusive_fatal_error_lies_of
New York Times: Great Paper. Great Propaganda Organ | Centre for Research on
Michael R. Gordon Intro/crediblity
https://necpluribusimpar.net/chemical-attack-syria/
he was the co-author with Judith Miller of the infamous NYT story which claimed that Saddam Hussein was trying to obtain aluminum in order to build atomic weapons. This claim was used by the US government to justify the invasion of Iraq but, as we know, it turned out to be false.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_R._Gordon
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Michael_R._Gordon
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2014/08/03/beware-the-new-york-timess-michaelr-gordon/
https://consortiumnews.com/2014/04/21/another-nyt-michael-gordon-special/
My List of RSS Feeds
Here’s the list: http://zq3q.org/pcolab/bookmarks_rss.html
This list is automatically built from my firefox book marks. Not updated unless I exit firefox; I might do that 6 times per month?
To keep it simple, it’s sorted, flat, w/no folders.
I think that using RSS feeds is an effective, convenient way to gather news from a greater breadth of websites and an easier way of evaluating websites for quality and “freshness/update rate”. This list has grown and been pruned over years.
My hunch is over 50% of these RSS feeds are political. There are a significant number of wonderful progressive sites. I include sites that are new/unknown/just trying; and some that I have mixed feelings about.
political, economic or environmental sites; most w/RSS feeds
See also my list of leaders.
Most of these come out of the above list. This list is manual, ie not automated - last updated on Fri 22 Sep 2017.
Included are a few ( less than 10 ) sites run by intelligent/knowledgeable/prolific, hyperbolic, egotistical, and occasionally “dead wrong” personalities. I try to watch myself, to not get trapped by these types; nonetheless, I like to think of myself as tolerant. If the value they provide out weighs their (sometimes significant) faults, they stay on list.
http://thiscantbehappening.net/
https://www.blackagendareport.com
http://neweconomicperspectives.org
http://www.washingtonsblog.com
https://electronicintifada.net
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org
http://truthjihad.blogspot.com
http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net
http://www.democracyatwork.info
http://www.soaw.org/component/content/frontpage
Websites I strongly question
These are sites I’m currently avoiding, and do not recommend:
https://bellingcat.com
Aaron Mate comments on bellingcat:
http://www.debka.com/
https://news.siteintelgroup.com/
https://ent.siteintelgroup.com/
Thot Exp – Fed gov builds $1M Hwy; Transactions: Treasury/Fed/Taxes
Assume a Congress budgeted for a new Federal HWY which costs 1 Million dollars ($1M).
Pls edit/correct my assumptions below. This relatively simple case ends up being quite complex. I want to understand each step. Also, if we can just stick reasonably close to the flow I outline in this example, with minimal deviations, I think it may help me understand.
Caveats on my Confusion
Treasury has power to “spend money into existence” (FED can not do this). Warren Mosler says the Treasury spends first, borrows later; I do not understand this. The fact that I’m missing the significance/meaning of this may be a key to my confusion.
I suspect my lack of understanding for the special powers of a Central Bank may also be an issue.
The process “walk through” step by step
Treasury spends the 1M first, then borrows
From R Wray, I understand the way US treasury spends money is by writing checks against it’s account with the Central Bank (the Fed), right? Treasury can not bounce checks. So when it spends the $1M, it’s account w/the Fed is debited $1M, right? This seems to contradict the idea that Treasury is spending $ into existence.
T-bills worth $1M are created/sold by Treasury to private banks
If Treasury does not have the money in CB (ie the Fed), then I understand one way to go is to create/issue new T-bills to raise this cash. These T-bills obligate the bond issuer (the Treasury) to pay principal and interest. These new issue T-Bills are sold to private banks and the dollars received go into the Treasury’s Fed account so Treasury can now spend to build the Fed Hwy.
Fed buys T-bills from private banks, Treasury now owes Fed T-bill principal & interest
I think that Randall Wray also said that the above T-Bills are then sold by the private banks to the Fed. Why? Is this step critical/needed?
Where does that Fed get money to buy these T-bills? Why do they do this? This step is confusing, how does the Fed have the power to do this? Into which “account” do these Fed purchased T-bills go; is there a label or name for this account?
assume these T-bills finally are paid in full, transaction complete
Now the Treasury’s obligation w/r to those T-bills is “to the Fed” - this confuses me, since as I understand it, annually the Fed will return the interest paid by the treasury on these bonds back to the treasury - does that mean interest on these bonds is moot/don’t care/effectively zero? Is this a magical side effect or power of the Cental bank?
The treasury is still obligated to pay off the principal on above T-bills. The Treasury dollars received for the sale of the T-bills have been spent by the Treasury on Fed HWY X. I do not see how dollars can simply be “shifted” from one account to another to pay off the principal as W. Mosler seems to sketch out.
Let’s assume the treasury raises enough funds through taxes in it’s acct w/the Fed to to pay off the principal on the T-bills when they mature. At this point then I assume the treasury’s account w/the Fed is debited the value of the T-Bill principal, and then the T-bills are marked as paid in full, right?
What major points did I miss? Pls correct my mistakes.
Thanks for your help. I’m excited about MMT, but clearly have much to learn.
Intro/Promo/Wrapper for MMT
This work should position you to counter arguments that ‘we do not have enough money’ to address healthcare, ecology, education etc; that we must sell off and privatize to eliminate public debt.
Per Modern Money Theory - Public/Federal debt is necessary if you have a sovereign currency and a high foreign demand for your currency, as USA does.
I’m very excited about MMT/Modern Money theory. It has ground breaking theories and concepts that may positively change your understanding:
- sovereign money / trusted - institutional-powerful currency issuer/ fiat currency / history of money
- Federal budget deficits,
- the purpose of Federal taxes
- the fake USA debt ceiling
- the limits to sovereign gov ‘just printing money’
- sectoral balance identity - proves need for Fed deficit in USA
It discredits main stream (Krugman for ex) economics; the Milton Friedmen/Chicago School; as will as Hayek /Austrian School of economics.
Related quote from Michael Hudson:
So we’re classical economists. Hyman Minsky was the main modern monetary theorist. Heterodox meant that he got his ideas largely from Marx. You can say classical political economy reached its logical conclusion with Marx. Capital was the last great work of classical economics, and showed where its logic was leading.
To get started here is a collection of MMT videos and articles:
MMT Youtube channels
Randall Wray;MMT: Sectoral Balances - Why The Government Must Run Deficits
short video: How Does The Federal Government Actually Spend
Modern Money Theory; Federal Deficits; Purpose of Taxes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory
http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2017/02/mmt-debunking-ami-postive-money.html
Paraphrasing L. Randall Wray:
In general every sovereign gov has had it’s own money. Taxes are not required for Federal spending. Federal deficits do not lead to bankruptcy. The fundamental purpose for Federal taxes is to create a demand for currency
Despite what all the libertarians say, the Fed is not private:
If taxes do not fund spending, what does?
https://youtu.be/-7StbLkjBQk?t=780
Congress authorizes the spending
Gov agency budgets are adjusted
The treasury on the 1st of each month tell the Fed to credit the respective agencies bank accounts w/the budgeted amount.
Fed/Treasury operating procedures evolved since 1913, but it’s mostly housekeeping. Congressionally imposed debt limits can constrain treasury spending and break everything.
Anyone can create money (IOUs), but generally only State or Bank money is widely accepted.
Printing money; hyperinflation; resource constraints
https://youtu.be/-7StbLkjBQk?t=1156
No financial constraint to printing money, only resource constraints
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7StbLkjBQk&feature=youtu.be&t=1475 | Randal Wray
Do you have enough workers, enough engineers, enough raw materials, if so, just print money, and start the project!
There are some parallels with a farmers barn raising operation. People collectively agree to work on a neighbor’s barn contruction project. The debt transfer is intangible, but surely debt in created “out of nothing”, and real collectively agreed upon work is done.
Medicare for all ex; Government rationing (as in WWII), or act to increase supply side
https://youtu.be/-7StbLkjBQk?t=1562
balanced budget; trade deficit; private sector deficit rare but dangerous; sectoral balance
https://youtu.be/-7StbLkjBQk?t=1654
The government fiscal balance is one of three major financial sectoral balances in the national economy, the others being the foreign financial sector and the private financial sector. The sum of the surpluses or deficits across these three sectors must be zero by definition.
Response to Milton Friedman / Chicago School
https://youtu.be/-7StbLkjBQk?t=1858
L. Randall Wray and Michael Hudson Video on MMT Sep 2012
video: ‘Modern Money & Public Purpose 1: The Historical Evolution of Money and Debt’
On Tue 14 Mar 2017, I’m still listening to this video, very good.
I’ve known of/listened to Michael Hudson for years. L. Randall Wray is new to me.
How Bankers Became the Top Exploiters of the Economy by M Hudson 3/15/2017
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/15/how-bankers-became-the-top-exploiters-of-the-economy/
Has nice intro to Modern Money Theory.
2016 Election Process Integrity
Will keep collecting links on: voter suppression, and computerized election rigging.
http://markcrispinmiller.com/2016/11/exit-polls/
If I read above, right Clinton fraud is suggested by the chart (col 4 less than 0) in 3 states: MN, WA, and NY. The fraud in MN may have flipped the state to Clinton.
Five states had a discrepancy of under 1%, so no obvious fraud - OR, NH, MI, CA, and TX.
The remaining 20 states on the chart all (col 4 greater than positive 1%) had more than 1% discrepancy suggesting fraud in Trump’s favor.
more links on election process integrity
- http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/the-gops-stealth-war-against-voters-w435890
- https://politics.slashdot.org/story/16/11/23/1514244/clinton-urged-to-challenge-election-results-due-to-possible-hacking-update?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Slashdot/slashdot+(Slashdot)
- http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/11/23/breaking-experts-find-election-hack-trump-may-face-legal-challenge-to-election/
- http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/11/22/election-data-screams-fraud/
- GP is raising money for recounts in WI, MI, & PA: https://jillstein.nationbuilder.com/recount
Congratulations on meeting the recount costs for Wisconsin.
Election integrity experts have independently identified Michigan,
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin as states where “statistical anomalies”
raised concerns.
all you have to do is go to one of the small towns carrying the sign-in log as required by Wisconsin law and look for the dozen or so people that never existed – how hard can that be?
Wisconsin’s GOP is one of the most corrupt organizations on earth, same issue we had in Ohio. This is why Sheldon Adelson spent the millions to get Walker and Synder into governorships along with John Kasich and so many others.
Bonnie Faulkner interviews Jonathan Simon (@JonathanSimon14) https://archives.kpfa.org/data/20161123-Wed1300.mp3
- 35:30 Dynamic/as needed real-time-rig “Man in Middle” rigging in 2004 Pres Election Ohio
- Mike Connell(sp?)/dead due to plan crash
- Ken Blackwell
- http://electiondefensealliance.org/jonathan_simon
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_Defense_Alliance
- 35:30 Dynamic/as needed real-time-rig “Man in Middle” rigging in 2004 Pres Election Ohio
Russia on our Election
Election Mechanics
- http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/02/just-how-does-the-general-election-exit-poll-work-anyway/
- http://www.edisonresearch.com/makes-exit-poll-legitimate/
- FAQ: http://www.edisonresearch.com/election-polling/#toggle-id-4
black box voting fraud (DRE fraud)
Dr Jonathan Simon, Nov 2014 computerized election fraud
- ‘Code Red, Computerized Election Theft’
- http://electiondefensealliance.org/jonathan_simon
- http://talktainmentradio.com/podcasts/Fight%20Back%20103114.mp3
- [@jonathansimon14](https://twitter.com/JonathanSimon14)
- Jim Fetzer (skip to 34:17)
- Chris Hedges - elections are rigged; Inverted Corp Totalitarianism
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Wolin
- Hedges likes Wolin’s book: “Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism” (Princeton University Press, 2008).
- http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=74&jumival=1250
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Wolin
Bob Fitrakis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Fitrakis
https://ballotpedia.org/Bob_Fitrakis
[Bob Fitrakis Interview: 2016 Lawsuit Filed in Ohio Against Exit Polling Company Edison Research] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODw4Gyr_W4s
Edison as monopoly…
‘Fooled Again and Loser Take All’, by Mark Crispin Miller
http://harpers.org/archive/2012/11/how-to-rig-an-election/
US Republican election fraud machine
Trump bldings as money laundering mechanism
In USA, laws allow shadow companies with obfuscated owners to make huge real estate purchases. This is a favored money laundering mechanism used by the mob. One Russian mobster bought a mansion from trump for $100M. Trump may not be doing anything illegal, but his seems comfortable dealing w/organized crime.
Dave Emory interview of Daniel Hopsicker here covers this
Snowden as ‘limited hangout tease’
I’m not decided either way, but I lean towards the theory that Snowden is still working for USA intelligence.
some of the better articles:
Sibel Edmond’s story was pure dynamite but was strongly suppressed.
--snip
Sibel Edmonds is one the greatest America heroes to ever live, and
is of the quality of Gweneth Todd who some believe single handedly
stopped another Mideast Invasion that could have started a nuclear WW3.US exile Dr Les (Leszek – Leslie) Sachs has a lot to say!
inconsistencies-and-unanswered-questions-the-risks-of-trusting-the-snowden-story
the-glenn-greenwalded-snowden-limited-hangout-psyop-for-war-with-syria-begins-to-crumble This is an audio interview: “Webster G. Tarpley on INN World Report Radio with Tom Kiely”.
It is also interesting to note that these limited hangout actors
have themselves participated in the attacking of 9/11 truth
activists. Assange has provided the most scolding attack stating
’I’m constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false
conspiracies such as 9/11’ (Bell, 2010). Glenn Greenwald, who
brought Snowden forward, is not interested in veering from the
official 9/11 story and instead focuses on ‘blowback’ being the
cause of terrorism (Greenwald, 2013).
Naomi Wolf (2013) has stated that during his interview he looked like
‘someone who had learned his talking points’ and his message
promoted fears that an oppressive government would want to instil in
other would-be whistle-blowers; such as the idea that you will lose
everything by standing up against it,
Before shooting into mainstream fame, Wikileaks received an endorsement
from Cass Sunstein suggesting that ‘they have immense potential’
(Sunstein, 2007). This should be of immediate concern to anyone looking
for legitimacy in leaked information, as Sunstein is the author
of a 2008 paper where he advocated the ‘main policy idea’ and
‘promising tactic’ of using ‘cognitive infiltration’ to disrupt
and break up ‘ideological and epistemological complexes’ that
investigate and promote anti-government conspiracy theories.
the founder of Cryptome and mentor of Assange, John Young, denounced
Wikileaks in 2007 as a CIA front (Tarpley, 2013).
- R Tice: Snowden Never Had Access to the JUICIEST Documents … Far More Damning
- Quite a few more Snowden/Greenwald/Omidyar links, in a very long reddit thread.
http://tarpley.net/2011/01/20/wikileaks-cognitive-infiltration-operation/
If the CIA had wanted to silence Assange, they could have subjected him to the classic kidnapping aka rendition, meaning that he would have been beaten, drugged, and carted off to wake up in a black site prison in Egypt, Poland, or Guantanamo Bay. Otherwise, the CIA could have had recourse to the usual extralegal wetwork. We must also assume that the new US Cybercommand with its vast resources would have little trouble shutting down the Wikileaks mirror sites, no matter how numerous they might be. –snip The Pentagon papers had been carefully selected by the CIA itself to cover up CIA war crimes in Vietnam, blaming these on the US Army wherever possible, while also obscuring the CIA’s massive program of drug production and narcotics smuggling. The Pentagon Papers systematically hid the salient political fact of the entire Vietnam era, which is that President John F. Kennedy before he was assassinated was preparing to end the de facto US combat role in that country. Instead, Kennedy was systematically demonized and smeared, emerging as the villain of the piece.
even before the document dumps had begun, Wikileaks had received a preemptive endorsement from none other than the notorious totalitarian Cass Sunstein, later an official of the Obama White House, and today married to Samantha Power, the author of the military coup that overthrew Mubarak –snip Sunstein’s article entitled “Brave New WikiWorld” was published in the Washington Post of February 24, 2007, and touted the capabilities of Wikileaks for the destabilization of China. –snip Upon examination, we find that the Pentagon papers tend to cover up such CIA crimes as the mass murder mandated under Operation Phoenix, and the massive CIA drug running associated with the proprietary airline Air America.
Mort Sahl
http://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/interview-with-mort-sahl
And then we got onto the Pentagon Papers. Sahl had claimed during his act that The New York Times hadn’t reprinted the Pentagon Paper for October 2, 1963, in which, he said, President Kennedy ordered all American troops out of Viet Nam, an order later withdrawn.
https://kennedysandking.com/videos-and-interviews/mort-sahl-1970-interview
The lawyers furnished Carson with cue cards as to how to question Garrison. But still, Garrison did fairly well and Carson came off like the hatchet man he was prepped to be. The host was very angry with Sahl for getting him into this sticky situation. Afterwards, he yelled at him: “You will never be on my show again.”
Dr Les (Leszek – Leslie) Sachs
- https://www.flickr.com/people/22325431@N05/
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/misc.legal/qbjPZH8Kw48
On Snowden
the US government apparatus, was long ago captured by a ’Deep
State - shadow government’ apparatus of America’s top wealthy
political families, who ‘own’ (control) all 3 branches of the US
government plus all US major media, and who use the CIA as their
instrument.
those previous NSA whistleblowers, were not part of the CIA
scheme being currently enacted in ‘Operation Fake Dissident’
with Edward Snowden. Those previous whistleblowers, without
the intense promotion of the CIA media companies, have long
languished little-known, with their statements mostly obscured in
the archives of ‘conspiracy’ websites, hidden under Google’s 5
levels of internet suppression
Less wealthy but still among the top 125 billionaires in the
world, is Pierre Omidyar, whose CIA-tied funding helped set
the stage to spill blood in Ukraine, and who has rewarded the
fake ‘Snowden journalist’ Glenn Greenwald, with US $50 million
CIA-backed dollars, to create a company of so-called ’brave
journalism’, ‘FirstLook’, a hollow and empty fraud.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/09/21/russia-govt-report-snowden-greenwald-are-cia-frauds/
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/misc.legal/qbjPZH8Kw48
Limited Hangout
How to identify CIA limited hangout op?
| Limited hangout artists are instant media darlings The most obvious | characteristic of the limited hangout operative is that he or she | immediately becomes the darling of the controlled corporate media. | –snip | Needless to say, surviving critics of the Warren Commission, and | more recent veterans of the 9/11 truth movement, and know very | well that this is emphatically not the treatment reserved for | messengers whose revelations are genuinely unwelcome to the Wall | Street centered US ruling class. These latter are more likely | to be slandered, vilified and dragged through the mud, or, even | more likely, passed over in complete silence and blacked out. In | extreme cases, they can be kidnapped, renditioned or liquidated. | –snip | It would appear that Snowden’s whistleblowing has been co-opted by | private corporate interests. Are those involved with privatization of | the stolen documents also colluding with government agencies to frame | and direct national discussions on domestic spying and other serious | matters? | –snip | This was the Assange media cartel, made up of papers previously | specialized in discrediting 9/11 critics and doubters. But even | before the document dumps had begun, Wikileaks had received | a preemptive endorsement from none other than the notorious | totalitarian Cass Sunstein, later an official of the Obama White | House, and today married to Samantha Power, the author of the | military coup that overthrew Mubarak and currently Obama’s pick | for US ambassador to the United Nations. Sunstein is infamous | for his thesis that government agencies should conduct covert | operations using pseudo-independent agents of influence for the | “cognitive infiltration of extremist groups” -
Pierre Omidyar
Another so-called fact-checking operation is listed, Politifact. It is
a project of the Tampa Bay Times and the Poynter Institute and shares
a donor with the Clinton Foundation, the Omidyar Network, created by
eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.
TODO.
Russell Tice former intelligence analyst for the United States
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Tice
- https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Russ_Tice
- http://whowhatwhy.org/2014/01/16/transcript-another-nsa-whistleblower-russell-tice/
- http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2013/06/21/msnbc-censors-nsa-whistleblower-russ-tice-minutes-before-interview/
- http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/18659-nsa-whistle-blower-russell-tice-is-the-top-echelon-of-the-intelligence-community-running-the-show
mimetic desire; scapegoat-mechanism vs Paraclete/Holy Spirit self judgment/tolerance
- René Noël Théophile Girard
- http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/podcasts/ideas_20160317_42986.mp3
- http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/podcasts/ideas_20160311_12391.mp3
- http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/podcasts/ideas_20160310_22105.mp3
- http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/podcasts/ideas_20160304_80648.mp3
M Hudson, World Congress on Marxism, 2015, Paradox of Financialized Industrialization
Warren Mosler videos
Thot exp - under threat, earn/then pay me 1 fiat chit before you leave
MMT Modern Money Theory collection
basics/ref doc: Modern Money Mechanics | pdf
Modern Money Theory (MMT) Academics
See intro to Modern Money Theory first.
Warren Mosler intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Mosler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCqBjcwI9w8
Read his book here ‘SEVEN DEADLY INNOCENT FRAUDS OF ECONOMIC POLICY’
William K. Black Intro
http://cas2.umkc.edu/economics/peep-faculty.asp
William K. Black
Ph.D., University of California at Irvine
J.D., University of Michigan Law School
Associate Professor of Economics and Law,
Executive Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention
Research Interests: Public Finance, Regulation, White-Collar Crime, Political Economy.
blackw -at- umkc.edu | Law 1-300B , Manheim 203B
Stephanie Kelton Intro
http://cas2.umkc.edu/economics/peep-faculty.asp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Kelton
University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC)
Department of Economics
Haag Hall 211
5120 Rockhill Rd
Kansas City, MO 64110
https://stephaniekelton.com/contact/
by or about
https://zq3q.org/pco/#xswuh_Kelton_gov_spends1st
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-01/paul-krugman-s-four-questions-about-mmt
Michael Hudson Intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hudson_(economist)
http://www.levyinstitute.org/scholars/michael-hudson
Research Associate
Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
Blithewood
Annandale-on-Hudson NY US 12504-5000
Fax: 845-758-1149
E-mail: michael.hudson -at- earthlink.net
Also working w/Peking Univ in Bejing China
http://cas2.umkc.edu/economics/peep-lecture.asp
Michael Hudson
Ph.D., New York University
Visiting Distinguished Research Professor
Research Interests: Money, Financial History,
Balance-of-payments and Flow-of-funds Analysis.
hudsonmi -at- aol.com
http://cas2.umkc.edu/econ/economics/faculty/Hudson/Hudsonmain.html
by or about Michael Hudson
http://www.unz.com/tsaker/saker-interview-with-michael-hudson-on-venezuela
MMT Economist L. Randall Wray intro
http://cas2.umkc.edu/economics/peep-faculty.asp
L. Randall Wray
Ph.D. Washington University, St. Louis
Professor, Senior Research Associate - CFEPS
Research Interests: Critique of orthodox monetary policy,
and development of an alternative, Full Employment Policy,
Modern Money, and Monetary Theory of Production.
wrayr -at- umkc.edu | Manheim 202C
http://www.levyinstitute.org/scholars/l-randall-wray
Senior Scholar L. Randall Wray is a professor of economics at Bard College. His current research focuses on providing a critique of orthodox monetary theory and policy, and the development of an alternative approach. He also publishes extensively in the areas of full employment policy and, more generally, fiscal policy. With President Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, he is working to publish, or republish, the work of the late financial economist Hyman P. Minsky, and is using Minsky’s approach to analyze the current global financial crisis.
E-mail: wray -at- levy.org
What Happens at the Treasury and the Fed When Congress Spends
Randall Wray https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzw8AO4vTqc
Spending: Fed credits creditors’ bank reserves. Taxing: Fed debits tax payers’ banks reserves.
3:18 What is the Fed? Fed is the USA central bank; the treasury’s bank and fiscal agent. Fed makes all the treasury payments. To pay a contractor the Fed credits the contractor’s bank reserves. Next the contractor’s bank credits their checking account. 4:26 Paying taxes: tax payer writes check to treasury, treasury presents it to the Fed, the Fed debits tax payer’s bank’s reserves, tax payer’s bank then debits tax payers checking account. Up until 1913, US gov had no central bank; it spent budget dollars (printing the money if required), and burned up ( destroyed ) the equivalent amount of incoming tax dollars.
Wynne Godley Intro
http://www.levyinstitute.org/scholars/wynne-godley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynne_Godley
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/finance-obituaries/7750835/Professor-Wynne-Godley.html
http://www.economist.com/node/16214152
http://www.levyinstitute.org/publications/wynne-godley
Text from Activist Signs I’ve Built & Used
The text was extracted from latex source code used to make pdfs which were then emailed to kinkos and printed, typically about yard-sign sized, but some were up to 4’ wide.
I also have a similar collection of “bumper sticker” slogans that I plan to post in the next couple of weeks.
Charities, Authors (buy their books) endorsed by “us”
Managing Stress/Cortisol, Dr. Sara Gottfried
Guy R McPherson Intro
Professor Emeritus of Natural Resources, and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, at University of Arizona.
email: Guy.R.McPherson –AT– gmail.com
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Guy_McPherson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_McPherson
some of Guy Mcpherson’s work
( Youtube ) Panel in San Mateo https://guymcpherson.com/2017/06/panel-in-san-mateo/
- 17:44
- 21:30 2007 was a tipping point.
- 24:00
- 25:25 Global dimming.
- Mcpherson part 2
- 16:15 Coping with the grief and depression. The_Grief_Recovery_Institute
Milwaukee July 12 Wed talk
- Civilization is not the only way to live. Civilization is a homicidal heat engine. 2026 is our deadline, literally. It’s over/too late. Climate disaster/end of civilization initiates in 2026 or sooner.
- Do what you love.
- We’re rewarded for mediocre performance, not excellence. Nonetheless, pursue excellence, so you can face yourself each night in the mirror.
- Do not be attached to the outcome of your actions. Remain calm, almost nothing is under your control.
- Relationships matter, take time for them.
Global dimming largely from coal fired power plants is preventing about a 4 deg C heat rise.
We’re on the verge of a multi Giga ton methane burst from the polar region.
Unitarian Church Review of MKE July 12 Wed Climate Chg talk by Guy McPherson
page with video: https://www.facebook.com/daniel.folkman.31
You will have to work a bit and scroll down/look – the video is dated ‘July 13 at 11:18pm’, and is annotated with “Abrupt Climate Change by Dr. Guy McPherson”.
http://uumilwaukee.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/August-2017-web.pdf
August 2017 Page 7
Dr. Guy McPherson Challenged, Angered and Cheered Audience
By T$_rerry Wiggins
On July 12, First Church hosted nearly 150 people to listen to
Dr. Guy McPherson talk about Abrupt Climate Change. His
fundamental points were that:
* Humans have been given a terminal diagnosis
* What shall any of us do and how shall we live, given that
diagnosis.
He thinks most climate scientists are guilty of malpractice for
not giving the diagnosis that self-reinforcing cycles of climate
change are making our planet uninhabitable for humans.
Due to technical difficulties, he was not able to present his
slides with scientific data. He orally presented studies with
names of authors, dates, and journal titles.
Dr. McPherson is accused of not promoting hope, which he
defined as wishing for an outcome over which one has no
agency. Though he is “hope-free,” he does not suggest inac-
tion, but rather, live in the present.
His three bits of advice:
1. Remain calm. Nothing is under your control. It doesn’t
matter what’s going on around you. It matters how you
respond to it. Act but do not be attached to the outcome.
2. Pursue excellence because at the end of the day you only
report to you.
3. Pursue love. Do what you love. Get off the treadmill of
just making a living.
After the presentation, several of the attendees commented
and sent emails about the “goofy science” he proffered. Yet
others see him as their hero.
Is he a “goofy professor” (New York Times), “Doomist cult
hero” (Michael Mann in Washington Post that day) or a solid
scientist? You may judge for yourself at
https://www.facebook.com/daniel.folkman.31 where his talk was live
-streamed.
Guy R McPherson critics
http://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php?topic=443.0
https://fractalplanet.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/how-guy-mcpherson-gets-it-wrong/
Climate Change Tipping Point
Book: Extinction Dialogs: How to Live with Death in Mind
Guy Mcpherson
podcasts/videos:
- Sep 14 2015, Mcpherson part 1
- 17:44
- 21:30 2007 was a tipping point.
- 24:00
- 25:25 Global dimming.
- Mcpherson part 2
- 16:15 Coping with the grief and depression. The_Grief_Recovery_Institute
reviews
moral climate change syllogisms
History GM Take Over of Streetcars
Surviving Cancer
Tips for Surviving Cancer
CBC on War of 1812
series on History of Secularism
Fractional Reserve Banking / pub banking
51 percent threshold for Union voice too high
I listened to parts of this speech two or three times - new concepts for me. US and Canada are the exception with the 50%+1 rule.
Talk by Chicago labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan - 19:15 “not neccessary to win”, but “to disrupt … very important to go out and ‘bleed’” - 47:00 unions should put energy into most militant movements: teachers and (healthcare) nurses unions - 48:35 “exclusive 50%+1 representation” vs so called “minority unions” vs (better term:) “members only unions”
Vaccines
Vaccines—RFK, Jr. Responds to Criticism from His Family • Aug 2019 Children’s Health Defense
Robert F Kennedy JR TODO - add timestamps
Robert F Kennedy JR Commonwealth Club Speech on thimerosal in vaccines
- Powerful lecture to Commonwealth Club - Listened to nearly all of it; suggest you do too.
http://noliesradio.org/archives/KB-TJ_2016_0210_kohls_web.mp3
http://noliesradio.org/archives/GB321_Vaccines_GaryNull_web.mp3
Vaccines tag on prn.fm
short 3 part series by Gary Null Jan/Feb 2018
Skip in 39:14 on: http://prn.fm/gary-null-show-2-01-19/
Skip in 31:25 on: https://thegarynullshow.podbean.com/mf/play/7rnwmn/GaryNull_013119.mp3
Skip in 42:00 on: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/2q94vp/GaryNull_013019.mp3. Prof Brian Hooker.
misc
http://humansarefree.com/2019/02/robert-f-kennedy-jr-explains-how-big.html
http://www.metrofarm.com/assets/podcasts/2016-12-03_fc_1082_b_autism.mp3
Robert F Kennedy JR Commonwealth Club Speech on thimerosal in vaccines
Powerful lecture to Commonwealth Club - Listened to nearly all of it; suggest you do too.
book: Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak: The Evidence Supporting the Immediate Removal of Mercury—a Known Neurotoxin—from Vaccines
Dr Jordan B Peterson Intro
Sun 01 Feb 2015
Gary Null, must listen video: GMO foods and Monsanto
Sun 04 Jan 2015
support anti-austerity MI activist Rev Pinkney as Jan 15 sentencing approaches
60+ year old Berrien County/Benton Harbor MI community activist Pinkney, convicted in Dec 2014 of 5 counts by an all white jury, w/apparently no evidence is facing a draconian prison sentence for a crime he apparently did not do.
What you can do:
- bring to attention of journalists
- Listen to this 20 min seqment by Daniela G Walls, on Tarpley’s Jan 3rd s show. You need to advance to 39 minutes, 14 seconds: WCR-20150103
- print and distribute this flyer
- best STEP by STEP, how you can help
- donate via paypal button on BHBanco.org
Pinkney related news
- news and how to reach Rev Pinkney in prison
- run this twitter hash tag query for news #freePinkney #RevPinkney #BHBanco
- Activists around the United States are angered over racial injustice in southwest Michigan
- early Dec youtube GCAS.org interview of Pinkney
- short article w/more links
- Tweet using hash tags: #BerrienCounty #freePinkney #RevPinkney #BHBanco #allwhitejury #blacklivesmatter #civilrights #Berrienframeup #bentonharbor
66yr old Benton Harbor, MI economic and social justice activist Rev Edward Pinkney convicted, threatened w/25 years in prison.
(Dec 2014) I’ve listened to this man in interviews over the last 8 weeks or so - he does not strike me as someone who would forge petition dates.
Recently he spoke to the UN about the water issue in Detroit and Benton Harbor.
On Nov 8 2014, I met w/some WI state green party people, several of which knew more than I about Pinkney, one of which has known of him for about 10 years, and strongly vouched for his integrity, calling him a “political prisoner”.
Pinkney needs our support.
Milwaukee WJN leader/activist Jennifer Addison
Executive Director at Wisconsin Jobs Now
large yard sign design ~3 foot x 2 foot
Relatively cheap; very durable, storm and wind resistant; waterproof. Should scale to at least 4 foot x 3 foot. Sign itself is on 1/4” plywood, and is only attached along it’s top edge so it’s free to swing in the wind.
Classic, old school T-posts provide the strong support and adjustable height- compensates for hills, sign can be level w/posts at uneven height.
The horizontal support for the sign was the toughest step to solve. The solution involves specialized “wedgeloc” brand t-post brackets - let me know if you come up w/a cheaper, yet convenient solution.
- wedge-loc bracket kit, part # 119 - photo - drawing - seller: Kencove (their website was down when I wrote this)
The sign copy, printing, and lamination.
This was my first time laminating. Not sure if I bought the right stuff, but it worked- the sign survived a few rain storms. > School Smart Laminating Film, 1-1/2 mil, 1 inch Core, 25 inch X 200 feet Roll
Fedex charges about $3/square foot to laminate; this approach saves money.
One side of the laminate film is less shiny, that is the side that should contact the paper.
I went to an office store and got a large piece of paper-foam board, to put down on the floor as a worksurface (‘Royal Eco Brites 30” x 40” White Foam Board’). This cost about $7, and is not ideal, since the foam ‘gives’ a bit too much; your pressing down with a hot household iron, so you need a flat surface, and you have to protect it from the heat. A desk blotter might have been better, but they are over $25.
Having done just 3 signs, I have not perfected the lamination process, I get some uneveness or “rippling/cupping”. I set the iron to slightly under the “cotton setting”. I use blue painters tape to put the sign down on the floor on top of the paper-foam board.
To apply the heat, I placed an 8.5 x 11 piece of blank printer paper between the iron and the film. That worked OK, but a larger sheet of paper would have been better. I started near the center of the sign, working outward.
Some ideas to minimize “ripples” I have not tried, so they may help or hurt:
Pre-heat the sign paper first ?
- Try putting the film on the back side (blank side) first?
getting sign printed
I use Latex for type setting software to create a pdf. Just email the pdf to kinkos, giving them the border dimensions. The sign pictured cost about $4 to print.
canvassing alone tips
I’m not an expert, but thought this was worth sharing. Grateful for constructive additions and comments.
some challenges: Your hands and fingers are writing, knocking on doors, shuffling papers. Your doing desk work outside in the wind, standing up in unfamiliar territory. You have a list, map, lit to hand out, and lit just to present. You’re dealing w/ households that have multiple roommates, with duplexes, backyard or side “A” suffix apts, single families, and locked apt blgs.
- Spend some time in the office, or in your car organizing your turf (street by street contacts).
- get an “over the shoulder bag” for the literature
- consider buying one of those aluminum box/clip boards.
- take along some blue tape use it to affix to your clip board’s back:
- phone number of organization sending you out (for questions)
- key URLs you want to share
- a sheet of paper w/your main talking points
- take 3 file folders with offset tabs so you can organize a your turf a bit
- plan your walk, and order the sheets accordingly
- get streets in order, using the printed map, and possibly your cell phone map
- Although obvious, it did not click for me - addresses on a given block are all at the same hundred level (eg 2400, 2500, 2600…); take advantage of this fact when looking at map and ording sheets.
- with in a given street order those sheets in walking order
- pre-bend / mangle the corners of the print outs slightly so you can easily flip through the pages. Often a list of people in a household spans from one page to another. Cold fingers are challenged.
- on cold days, your right hand glove need to be cut for thumb, and adjacent 2 or 3 fingers, so you can write
- When done w/a page of turf I put the clip board down on the sidewalk, kneel down, remove the done sheet, and move it “face up” so it is the absolute bottom sheet on the clipboard. That way, when done you have a nice ordered list. Doing this standing up in the wind is risky.
Park your car in the middle of your turf - advantage: it’s never that far away - disadvantage: your turf paperwork ordering is a bit more challenging
Consider picking the next address from the list without looking at the name, keep that address in your head, walk up w/eyes on the residence, not on your clipboard, knock and ring door bell; then in the wait time, look at the clip board at your address, for completion - look carefully for the next new address; finally read all the names of voters you need to ask about. If you do not look for the next new address, you might find the next page contains a person you did not ask about it the current address.
If no one is home do not make yourself suspect, do not twist your neck to look through another window “to see if they’re really home”; put the literature in the door, before marking them not home.
Some people are concerned about, and guard their privacy. Introduce yourself, tell them who paid for the database (your turf list). Explain that voting tendencies are modeled from public voting records; ie either you did or did not vote. Closed primaries, where you vote all republican or all democrat help “clue in” the behavioral model. I emphasize that I’m just a volunteer, that I have no direct connection w/the org that owns the database. I could use some help dealing respectively w/these people - they may not want to disclose their position.
Walk all the way to the neutral ground, ie the public sidewalk before writing your notes.
common mistakes:
- page break hides an additional person in household you just talked with
- you just walked back to the sidewalk, but your next household is back up the stairs , eg. the neighboring apt in a duplex
In a dense residential neighborhood, I think you can hit about 50 doors in 3 hours. Typically more than half do not answer, and perhaps 40-50% of the time when they answer the door, none of your target voters are home - so you need a speech/strategy for people not on your list.
Cell Phone Radiation Health Risks
12 tips to avoid ill affects from cell phone radiation - EMF meter review - Demo of phone call - measuring the radiation
How WiFi and Other Electromagnetic Fields Cause Biological Harm
Neoliberalism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
When the term was reintroduced in the 1980s in connection with Augusto Pinochet’s economic reforms in Chile, the usage of the term had shifted. It had not only become a term with negative connotations employed principally by critics of market reform, but it also had shifted in meaning from a moderate form of liberalism to a more radical and laissez-faire capitalist set of ideas. Scholars now tended to associate it with the theories of economists Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman,4 along with politicians and policy-makers such as Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and Alan Greenspan
http://inthesetimes.com/article/20360/Jonathan-Chait-Neoliberalism-Capitalism-Austerity
Neoliberals believe that society functions best when corporations are publicly furnished with what they need to survive and thrive. Socialists feel this way about the public, not corporations.
–snip
Socialists’ proposed healthcare solution, Medicare for All, would wipe out the private health insurance industry. This is clearly not a neoliberal proposition, as it results in less capitalism, not more. Socialists’ ideal healthcare solution, nationalized medicine, is entirely anathema to neoliberals, who only make allowances for the welfare state when it runs parallel to and supports, rather than supplants, private industry.
Repeat post from Mar 2011
John Taylor Gatto:
- Very “dry intro”, suggest you skip in 14:54 http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/archive/ug539-hour1mix.mp3
- http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/archive/ug539-hour2mix.mp3
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto
20110223 Glen Ford on Black Agenda Report on DetroitSchools:
RSS overview. Your Website & Podcast Needs a RSS feed
Also an argument for everyone to find a good/free RSS reader, and start mining Internet for articles and podcast through your list of RSS feeds.
- RSS
(Rich Site Summary; originally RDF Site Summary; often called Really Simple Syndication)
If you do not have an RSS feed your missing the sector of tech savvy / news junkie RSS users, many of which have been using RSS since roughly year 2000! I’m willing to check my RSS feeds many times a day, each time getting a quick time sorted summary of your latest articles. You configure your RSS client to update your feeds automatically, perhaps once every 2 hours.
I visit the feeds of several hundred RSS feeds daily; the heart beats/clicks/waits/mental cost of visiting each site manually/directly is too much/I will not do that. Visiting a site directly requires a wait for it to load, and then additional effort to see if anything is new. Visiting an RSS feed is fast, ad-free, and all the new article summaries show up at the top, with on the order of one line per article.
Analogy: Checking RSS is like looking at your new email sorted by date and time, with latest at the top; in RSS you select among the top 10 (10 is a site by site setting, some are 100+) latest articles by their 1 line headlines or titles (analogous to email ‘Subject’ lines).
http://scripting.com/2019/12/24/164526.html
RSS got bootstrapped between 1997 and 1999
RSS advocacy articles
Why RSS Feeds Are Far Better Than Social Control Media & So-called ‘News’ Portals | Apr 2021
Please Add RSS Support To Your Site
Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance (Apr 2018)
It’s time to head back to RSS? (wired.com)
RSS Is Better Than Twitter | Hacker News 2019
Good News: RSS is “built in” to some blog software
I understand from a Wordpress savy friend that RSS feeds are automatically made by and built in to Wordpress; I assume this is case for other blog sw packages. So, blog authors may have RSS feeds but not be aware of nor promote them (feed links may not be displayed) which leads to next topic - finding feeds.
How to find RSS feeds
Links may literally say something like ‘RSS Feed’, or they may signal that a link is an RSS feed via the a smaller version of this orange symbol.
Tools exist to search a page for RSS feeds in the html header of a given web page; often the home page. RSS feed Links only in this header, do not show up visibly on the page; so a tool to list them is imp.
Firefox 52 provides a button to feed RSS feeds ( feeds placed in html header) on a web page:
- select the menu button (3 parallel lines)
- select customize
- look for the RSS icon, It has text label “Subscribe”. Drag that to your toolbar
- exit customize
RSS News Readers;RSS Feed clients; RSS feed readers/aggregators | software
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_aggregator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_feed_aggregators
I use liferea. I have also used firefox live bookmarks (now defunct); also a text-based/CLI tool called newsbeuter.
2019 lifehacker RSS client review
Podcasts should have a dedicated RSS feed
As a rule, if your podcast does not have an RSS feed, I will not listen to it - my podcatching software will not find it.
When your podcast is in an RSS feed, then with podcatcher software you can manually or automatically generate a playlist, from the list of RSS feeds you have subscribed to. I listen to such a playlist daily. I’m liable to automatically hear your show more often this way, since I do not have to click-click-click my way to your website to listen to the show.
Here is an overview of sites with podcast RSS feeds that I subscribe to.
History of podcasts
https://www.wired.com/2009/08/dayintech_0813/
Actual credit for the invention of the podcasting model goes to Dave Winer. Software developer Winer helped create Really Simple Syndication (RSS) — a basic web feed simplifying the process of subscribing to websites and other online media. He used RSS to deliver his audio program, Morning Coffee Notes, just a day before Curry’s program debuted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_podcasting
Winer included the new functionality in RSS 0.92[10] by defining a new element11 called “enclosure”,12 which would simply pass the address to a media aggregator. On January 11, 2001, Winer demonstrated the RSS enclosure feature by enclosing a Grateful Dead song in his Scripting News weblog.13
http://scripting.com/2019/02/10/ifItDoesntHaveAFeedItsNotAPodcast.m4a
background/advocacy of/on RSS | RSS articles
I Still Use RSS | Hacker News | 2021
https://lobste.rs/s/vsewdj/save_rss_atom
http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-use-rss/
http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/what-is-rss-how-to-use-rss-in-wordpress/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10202055
http://diginomica.com/2016/02/15/the-insanity-of-dumping-rss-feeds/
https://www.mhthemes.com/blog/uses-and-benefits-of-rss-feeds/
https://www.wprssaggregator.com/rss-dead-rss-stay/
https://artandlogic.com/2016/05/rss-dead-yet/
http://www.infolaw.co.uk/newsletter/2017/02/legal-web-watch-february-2017-rss-dying-right/
RSS Feed Reader Tools
Firefox
I use firefox livebookmarks which are ‘built in’.
https://www.lifewire.com/firefox-live-bookmark-3486642
http://johnbokma.com/firefox/rss-and-live-bookmarks.html
Chrome
When I use chrome I do not use RSS feeds, so I have no direct experience here.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rss-live-links/nehpoclgfljdcofmeojmddcliakphipf?hl=en
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rss-feed-reader/pnjaodmkngahhkoihejjehlcdlnohgmp?hl=en
Other Browsers
You on your own. Suggest you search for:
BROWSERNAMEHERE RSS Feed Reader
BROWSERNAMEHERE RSS live bookmarks
Podcast Feeds
TODO
Lester R. Brown
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_R._Brown
Stats and Lists - Misc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Body_Mass_Index_(BMI)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_employment_rate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Poverty_Index
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_the_number_of_billionaires
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_foreign_aid
Israel
https://councilforthenationalinterest.org/?page_id=2
Defense and Military
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_aid
http://ifamericaknew.org/stat/usaid.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/military-spending-united-states/
Military Bases
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_countries_with_overseas_military_bases
United States military deployments
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/United_States_military_deployments
Recent Wars Impact
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Body_Count_project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Syrian_Civil_War
https://www.iraqbodycount.org/
http://www.iamsyria.org/death-tolls.html
http://www.libyabodycount.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_2011_Libyan_Civil_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_Civil_War_(2015–present)
artic ice stats
https://sites.google.com/site/arcticseaicegraphs/
https://neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov/csb/index.php?section=234
Stats Econ
https://www.bls.gov/feed/bls_latest.rss
Stats Energy
https://yearbook.enerdata.net/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_study_of_energy_data
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Energy
https://www.nei.org/Knowledge-Center/Nuclear-Statistics/World-Statistics
Stats World Grain Prices
https://www.barchart.com/futures/grains
US Federal Debt
Federated FLOSS Social Media Intro
I’m trying out pump.io as an FLOSS alternative to twitter. What pushed me was a (too technical) developer video from this year’s libre planet conference.
Here’s are a few of the federation instances; from https://diasp.org/tags/pumpio :
diaspora* - https://diasporafoundation.org/
Hubzilla - http://hubzilla.org/
Friendica - http://friendi.ca/
Libertree - http://libertree.org/
GNU Social - https://www.gnu.io/social/
Mastodon - https://mastodon.social/about
pump.io - http://pump.io/
The list leaves out http://identi.ca which is closed to new users, but still quite active.
This should introduce you: https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Distributed_Social_Network_Projects
James Livingston Intro (Rutgers)
http://history.rutgers.edu/faculty-directory/172-livingston-james
video on his book ‘No More Work: Why Full Employment Is A Bad Idea’
For centuries we have believed that work is where we build character, and that the labor market allocates incomes more or less rationally. These beliefs have become delusions. What then? Why do we hold fast to full employment as the cure for what ails us, and retain faith in the labor market’s efficiencies? Livingston is Professor of History at Rutgers., and delivered this lecture at the University of Pittsburgh on March 18, 2017
Public Banking
3 part series on State Public Bank of North Dakota
https://popularresistance.org/100-years-the-bank-of-north-dakota-story-part-iii/
Ellen Brown Intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Brown
http://www.publicbankinginstitute.org/
https://twitter.com/ellenhbrown?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author
http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/44779
By or about Ellen Brown
TUC radio: EllenBownPublicBank TWO
google calendar guest perms: See guest list << DISabling this | exposing gig email address lists
guest permissions
See guest list <<< be sure this is unchecked.
Consider a long list like example-group–discussion@googlegroups.com that is one of the calendar event guests. IMHO it’s best not to expose email addresses, so privacy is protected, and list members’ exposure to subsequent spam is limited.
Conclusion: as a rule uncheck “See guest list” for a calendar event.
Group Emailing Best Practices
You may anger your group members if you have their addresses in the To: or Cc: headers – email address sharing can lead expose recipients to spam.
Many or most email clients require that you put something in the ‘To:’ header.
For a large mailing list, the ‘To:’ header should only have a single empty group address; with typically this group name:
To: Undisclosed recipients:;
There is nothing special though about ‘Undisclosed recipients’, you could be more descriptive as in:
To: fellow workers:;
The important part is ‘:;’, i.e. since there are no email addresses between the : and the ; you have an acceptable ‘empty’ list of email addresses. You place the list of actual email addresses in the ‘Bcc’ header.
Your group list of personal email addresses belongs in the Bcc header.
Alternatively, use a listserve/email list/google group, or a forum tool.
Exposing email addresses in To: and Cc: can lead to spam
All it takes is for one person on the list to have their mail account or computer compromised; or for someone to post the email with all the email addresses visible in the To: field to a web server which does not obfuscate email addresses, then every one on the list may get spam.
Viruses can break into address books and harvest email addresses. I assume some mail clients offer to auto build address books from incoming email; or cache these addresses somewhere that they may be scraped. I just received raunchy spam from w/a “From” address matching an old tenant; clearly they did not send it.
Another scenario - someone in the group forwards the email to a friend, it gets forwarded again … eventually the list is in hands of someone with a business interest in the group so the spam starts.
If email addresses are shared less, we all get less spam.
Keeping To: and Cc: free of personal email addresses
It’s possible that someone may want to be a member of the mailing group but still not want to share out their email address; the group admin could honor this.
The general rule for a “subject area” mailing list, for example a group about “electric scooters” is that no ones’ email address is exposed unless they post to the group.
Example header for posting to yaml “subject area” mailing list:
To: yaml-core@lists.sourceforge.net
From: "Martin Eisengardt" <MEP_Eisen@example.com>
Subject: [Yaml-core] yaml spec on commentsFor an activist group there is a need and an enthusiasm to work together and coordinate; still pls be mindful about explicit email addresses, privacy, and spam.
–
perma link: RFC 2822 ‘Group Address’
“Undisclosed recipients” is an empty ‘Group Address’
RFC 2822 Internet Message Format April 2001
A.1.3. Group addresses
----
From: Pete <pete@silly.example>
To: A Group:Chris Jones <c@a.test>,joe@where.test,John <jdoe@one.test>;
Cc: Undisclosed recipients:;
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1969 23:32:54 -0330
Message-ID: <testabcd.1234@silly.example>
Testing.
----
In this message, the "To:" field has a single group recipient named
A Group
which contains 3 addresses, and a "Cc:" field with an empty
group recipient named
Undisclosed recipients.
related links
http://www.productivity501.com/correct-way-to-send-out-group-emails/378/
When you send out an email to a group of people, simply putting them all on the to field is bad form. First, it exposes all the email addresses, so everyone can see everyone else’s emails. Second, if someone accidentally hits “Reply All” instead of “Reply” their response can easily be sent to the entire group instead of just you.
“Conspiracy Theory” as weaponized term
weaponized term “conspiracy theory”: a conspiracy to: gaslight; to silence/ shutdown discussion / discredit those with the capacity for independent thought | https://zq3q.org/pco/#rpqdf_conspirweap
SCADS/War Crimes | Lance deHaven-Smith: State Crimes Against Democracy | 2017 | weaponized language/dialog-shutdown tool: conspiracy theory | CIA 1967 1035-960 | https://zq3q.org/fp/lance-dehaven-smith2017.htm
Project Censored podcast
conspiracy as weaponized term00:43:06 | https://projectcensored.podbean.com/mf/play/uxay4e/ProjectCensored_050917.mp3
JFK on conspiracy | Tony Gosling’s snip from Tim Gielen
JFK on conspiracy00:50:32 | http://www.radio4all.net/files/tony@cultureshop.org.uk/2149-1-MONOPOLY_-_WHO_OWNS_THE_WORLD_DOCUMENTARY_BY_TIM_GIELEN.mp3
Mark Crispin Miller | Odysee video
Skip to 00:18:38 : https://off-guardian.org/2021/10/26/watch-how-to-disarm-propaganda/
Michael Parenti | Are you a Conspiracy Theorist?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKV1-2nhFqc | 2 min
“Conspiracy Theory” is a “weaponized term” invented/promoted by the CIA in the ’60s after the JFK assassination. The memo is 1035-960 (see below).
CIA Document 1035-960
I’m still reading the material that follows, so I do not entirely endorse Project Censored’s view.
Here is a link to entire 53 page 1035-960 pdf, unfortunately it’s partially paywalled: http://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=53510#relPageId=1&tab=page. A 14 page related (and ‘free’) version:http://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/cia/russholmes/104-10406/104-10406-10110/html/104-10406-10110_0012a.htm which came from: https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/3ly06v/cia_memo_1035960_credible_source/.
What follows is just the first few pages of 1035-960. The source for this section is: https://projectunspeakable.com/conspiracy-theory-invention-of-cia/:
1967
CIA Document 1035-960
[Concerning Criticism of the Warren Report]
1. Our Concern. From the day of President
Kennedy's assassination on, there has been
speculation about the responsibility for his
murder. Although this was stemmed for a time by the
Warren Commission report, (which appeared at the
end of September 1964), various writers have now
had time to scan the Commission's published report
and documents for new pretexts for questioning, and
there has been a new wave of books and articles
criticizing the Commission's findings. In most
cases the critics have speculated as to the
existence of some kind of conspiracy, and often
they have implied that the Commission itself was
involved. Presumably as a result of the increasing
challenge to the Warren Commission's report, a
public opinion poll recently indicated that 46%
of the American public did not think that Oswald
acted alone, while more than half of those polled
thought that the Commission had left some questions
unresolved. Doubtless polls abroad would show
similar, or possibly more adverse results.
2. This trend of opinion is a matter of concern to
the U.S. government, including our organization. The
members of the Warren Commission were naturally
chosen for their integrity, experience and
prominence. They represented both major parties, and
they and their staff were deliberately drawn from
all sections of
|> the country. Just because of the standing of the |> Commissioners, efforts to impugn their rectitude and |> wisdom tend to cast doubt on the whole leadership |> of American society. Moreover, there seems to be an |> increasing tendency to hint that President Johnson |> himself, as the one person who might be said to |> have benefited, was in some way responsible for the |> assassination.
Innuendo of such seriousness affects not only the
individual concerned, but also the whole reputation
of the American government. Our organization
itself is directly involved: among other facts, we
contributed information to
|> the investigation. Conspiracy theories have |> frequently thrown suspicion on our organization, |> for example by falsely alleging that Lee Harvey |> Oswald worked for us. The aim of this dispatch is |> to provide material countering and discrediting |> the claims of the conspiracy theorists, so as to |> inhibit the circulation of such claims in other |> countries. Background information
is supplied in a classified section and in a number
of unclassified attachments.
|> 3. Action. We do not recommend that discussion of |> the assassination question be initiated where it is |> not already taking place. Where discussion is active |> [business] addresses are requested:
a. To discuss the publicity problem with [?] and
friendly elite contacts (especially politicians and
editors), pointing out that the Warren Commission
made as thorough an investigation as humanly
possible, that the charges of the critics are
without serious
|> foundation, and that further speculative discussion |> only plays into the hands of the opposition. Point |> out also that parts of the conspiracy talk |> appear to be deliberately generated by Communist |> propagandists. Urge them to use their influence to |> discourage unfounded and irresponsible speculation.
Notice the use of the term ‘propaganda assets’, and the focus on book reviews:
** b. To employ propaganda assets to [negate] and
refute the attacks of the critics. Book reviews and
feature articles are particularly appropriate for
this purpose. The unclassified attachments
to this guidance should provide useful background
material for passing to assets. ** Our ploy should
Amusing choice of the word ‘ploy’:
** material for passing to assets. Our ploy should
point out, as applicable, that the critics are (I)
wedded to theories adopted before the evidence was
in, (I) politically interested, (III) financially
interested, (IV) hasty and inaccurate in their
research, or (V) infatuated with their own
theories.** In the course of discussions of the whole
phenomenon of criticism, a useful strategy may be to
single out Epstein's theory for attack, using the
attached Fletcher [?] article and Spectator piece
for background. (Although Mark Lane's book is much
less convincing that Epstein's and comes off badly
where confronted by knowledgeable critics, it is
also much more difficult to answer as a whole, as
one becomes lost in a morass of unrelated details.)
4. In private to media discussions not directed at
any particular writer, or in attacking publications
which may be yet forthcoming, the following
arguments should be useful:
a. No significant new evidence has emerged which
the Commission did not consider. The assassination
is sometimes compared (e.g., by Joachim Joesten
and Bertrand Russell) with the Dreyfus case;
however, unlike that case, the attack on the Warren
Commission have produced no new evidence, no new
culprits have been convincingly identified, and
there is no agreement among the critics. (A better
parallel, though an imperfect one, might be with
the Reichstag fire of 1933, which some competent
historians (Fritz Tobias, AJ.P. Taylor, D.C. Watt)
now believe was set by Vander Lubbe on his own
initiative, without acting for either Nazis or
Communists; the Nazis tried to pin the blame on the
Communists, but the latter have been more successful
in convincing the world that the Nazis were to
blame.) […]
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/7oj9xp/in_1967_the_cia_created_the_label_conspiracy/
Mockingbird Journalists
here is a brief historical note on how at the height of the Cold War the CIA developed it’s very own stable of writers, editors and publishers (swelling to as many as 3000 individuals) that it paid to scribble Agency propaganda under a program called Operation Mockingbird. The disinformation network was supervised by the late Philip Graham, former publisher of Timberg’s very own paper, the Washington Post.
http://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php
Alsop is one of more than 400 American journalists who in the past twenty‑five years have secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency, according to documents on file at CIA headquarters. Some of these journalists’ relationships with the Agency were tacit; some were explicit. There was cooperation, accommodation and overlap. Journalists provided a full range of clandestine services—from simple intelligence gathering to serving as go‑betweens with spies in Communist countries.
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Conspiracy_theory
Jim Garrison has a lot to say about press misinformation.
CIA’s Use of ‘Propaganda Assets’ in the Media: http://22november1963.org.uk/cia-warren-report-critics
Kevin Barrett on “conspiracy theories”
http://www.unz.com/article/why-the-war-on-conspiracy-theories-is-bad-public-policy/
Any media outlet that uses the terms “conspiracy theory” or “conspiracy theorist” without explaining that these terms are part of a psychological warfare operation by the perpetrators of State Crimes Against Democracy (SCADs) is participating in those crimes.
Peter Phillips sociology of conspiracy class
Peter Martin Phillips Intro
http://web.sonoma.edu/sociology/faculty/peter-phillips.html

Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Peter Phillips is a Professor of Political Sociology at Sonoma State University since 1994, former Director of Project Censored 1996 to 2010 and President of Media Freedom Foundation 2003 to 2017. He has been editor or co-editor of fourteen editions of Censored, co-editor with Dennis Loo of Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney 2006, editor of two editions of Progressive Guide to Alternative Media and Activism 1999 & 2004. His most recent book is Giants: The Global Power Elite from Seven Stories Press August 2018. He was a co-host of the weekly Project Censored show on Pacifica Radio with Mickey Huff 2010 to 2017 originating from KPFA in Berkeley and airing on forty stations nationwide. He teaches courses in Political Sociology, Sociology of Power, –snip
peter.phillips
-at-
sonoma.edu
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Peter_Phillips
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Peter_Phillips
https://www.c-span.org/person/?peterphillips
He directed Project Censored from 1996 to 2010.
by or about Peter Martin Phillips
https://projectcensored.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bohemian_Club_members
Aug 2018 book: ‘Giants: The Global Power Elite’
https://projectcensored.org/giants-the-global-power-elite-2/
https://www.occupy.com/article/giants-global-power-elite#sthash.GYyMgULQ.dpbs
https://countercurrents.org/2018/08/11/giants-the-global-power-elite/
https://popularresistance.org/meet-the-1-giants-the-global-power-elite/
my familiarity: 5+ years
Jim Garrison Intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Garrison
July 15, 1967 27 min video response to NBC “hatchet job”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqo2c_SxQag
Micky Huff intro
http://projectcensored.org/staff/
Mickey Huff is the current director of Project Censored, founded in 1976, and is president of the Media Freedom Foundation. To date, he has edited or coedited eight volumes of Censored (published by Seven Stories Press in NY) and contributed numerous chapters to these works dating back to 2008. Additionally, he has coauthored several chapters on media and propaganda for many other scholarly publications. He is currently professor of social science and history at Diablo Valley College in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is cochair of the history department. Huff is cohost with former Project Censored director Peter Phillips of The Project Censored Show, the weekly syndicated public affairs program that began in 2010, which originates from the historic studios of KPFA Pacifica Radio in Berkeley CA, and airs on 40 stations around the He sits on the advisory board for the Media Literacy and Digital Culture graduate program at Sacred Heart University, and serves on the editorial board for the journal Secrecy and Society.
http://www.dvc.edu/directory/profiles/huff-mickey/index.html
Faculty - History,
Pleasant Hill Campus, Diablo Valley College
321 Golf Club Road Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
925-969-2500
mhuff -at- dvc.edu
FO-255
http://www.dvc.edu/about/campuses/phc/phc-maps.html
Pleasant Hill google map, zoomed out
https://twitter.com/Mythinfo?lang=en
http://prn.fm/hosts-mickey-huff/
Mickey Huff is the Director of Project Censored and is a member of the board of directors for the Media Freedom Foundation. He is currently an an associate professor of history at Diablo Valley College (DVC), located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Huff is radio co-host of the Project Censored Show with former Project Censored director Dr. Peter Phillips. The program airs as part of The Morning Mix on KPFA in Berkeley, CA on Pacifica Radio, and is rebroadcast on the Progressive Radio Network online out of New York City. He is also on the board of directors of No Lies Radio and is a former advisor to the Students for a Democratic Society at DVC. Huff regularly holds forums on campus with authors and activists from across the country to discuss issues surrounding history, critical thinking, and current events.
http://gcml.org/meet-the-gcmlp/
http://www.dvcinquirer.com/uncategorized/2009/08/31/unconventional-dvc-professor-spurs-thoughtbr/
Robert Parry Intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Parry_(journalist)
Active on Consortiumnews, IMHO he is a prolific writer of long/challenging, in depth political investigative stories.
Not without a few faults or blind spots:
https://markbruzonsky.wordpress.com/2016/04/25/why-is-robert-parry-so-afraid/
when it comes to 9/11 Parry refuses to publicly debate David Ray Griffin or any other major 9/11 personality, plus he likes to point the finger at the Saudis but refuses to do so when it comes to the Israelis and their powerful Israeli/Jewish lobby
Kevin Barrett Intro
https://truthjihadradio.blogspot.com/
https://twitter.com/truthjihad?lang=en
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnHNX8fpEyfsylM_Q1KaHog
http://www.veteranstoday.com/authors/barrett/
Dr. Kevin Barrett, a Ph.D. Arabist-Islamologist, is one of America’s best-known critics of the War on Terror.
He is Host of TRUTH JIHAD RADIO; a hard driving weekly LIVE call in radio show. He also has appeared many times on Fox, CNN, PBS and other broadcast outlets, and has inspired feature stories and op-eds in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Tribune, and other leading publications.
Dr. Barrett has taught at colleges and universities in San Francisco, Paris, and Wisconsin, where he ran for Congress in 2008. He currently works as a nonprofit organizer, author, and talk radio host.
http://www.twf.org/bio/Barrett.html
http://en.wikimannia.org/Kevin_Barrett
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Kevin_Barrett
No Wikipedia entry.
http://www.progressivepress.com/author/kevin-barrett
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Progressive_Press
familiarity: Not sure, probably following him since 2007.
Work by or about Kevin Barrett
https://crescent.icit-digital.org/authors/kevin-barrett
http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=kevin_barrett_1
Neocons’ History
The History of the Neocon Takeover of the USA
Here is an interview by Kevin Barrett of the authors of the article: ‘The History of the Neocon Takeover of the USA’.
Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould claim that the first Neocons were Trotskyites.
@31m08s: Trotskyites as revolutionary opposition.
@31m45s: They immigrated to USA and “did not fit in”. ( e.g. Sidney Hooks, Irvining Crystal. )
@31m50s: Trotskyites as “culture of opposition”; first anti Zar, then anti Stalin.
@32m21s: 1920s/30s Fights between, Trotskyites and Stalinists in NY Pub Library. Still clashes up to 1970. [ I would be interested in these discussions, not clear what content was.]
@33m00s: Philosopher James Burnham became a Trotskyite in 1934-1940, and then later under the influence of Spengler’s ‘The Decline of the West’ …
@36m18s: Israel & Pakistan both “religious states” created by British. British impact on US thinking.
@40m50s Inenvitable 1 world government is coming. Who is going to run it? Geography is all important here.
@41m40s Who ever controls EurAsia, Ukraine, the resources of Central Asia will rule the World. “The Great Game”
Ran out of time but hope to dig into this more.
thesaker.is website
Stumbled over this website, theSaker - example article. Not endorsing it, but I will keep checking back there; I like their tag line “Stop the Empire’s war against Russia”.
Born and raised in Switzerland by Russian parents who were refugees from the Bolshevik Revolution, “the Saker” studied in the United States and lived and worked in Europe as a military analyst. Opposed to the destruction of successive countries in Eastern Europe (aka the US/NATO wars), he reinvented himself as a software engineer who now lives in the United States (as he puts it, “the Imperial Homeland”). Frustrated by the ongoing destruction in Europe, he started to blog.
The rest is history. When war in the Ukraine splashed its way across Western headlines, readership at The Vineyard of the Saker exploded.
James Burnham Intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burnham
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/James_Burnham
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Thoughts_on_James_Burnham
Orwell restating Burnham:
Power can sometimes be won or maintained without violence, but never without fraud, because it is necessary to make use of the masses, and the masses would not co-operate if they knew that they were simply serving the purposes of a minority.
Oswald Spengler’s ‘The Decline of the West’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decline_of_the_West
https://archive.org/stream/Decline-Of-The-West-Oswald-Spengler/Decline_Of_The_West_djvu.txt
http://www.vqronline.org/essay/decline-west-spengler-reconsidered
Albert Wohlstetter Intro
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Albert_Wohlstetter
http://albertwohlstetter.nuclearpolicy101.org/
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Albert_Wohlstetter
https://www.rand.org/about/history/wohlstetter.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Wohlstetter
1946 Churchill Iron Curtain speech
Foundation for cold war.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/churchill-delivers-iron-curtain-speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2PUIQpAEAQ
http://www.westminster-mo.edu/explore/history-traditions/IronCurtainSpeech.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Curtain
PGP Crypto Overview
Intro
If the term ‘key’ is used alone, think of it as the entire public/private (secret) key pair, and any subkeys.
If I understand correctly, the collection of a key and the sub keys bound to it are called a ‘key block’; so for example when you exchange public keys, they are really ‘public key blocks’.
Expect to be confused, this is complicated, and it inevitably is explained in a way that over simplifies it. Feel free though to interrupt with questions. Fortunately the #gnupg IRC group, and mailing list are active and responsive.
Carefully Choose “Real Name String” and email addr for your key
You will create a public/private key pair which represents you w/a ‘uid’: “Real Name String”, like “John R Doe”, coupled w/a current, stable email address. Sub strings of either of these may be used at the commandline or in a key server search to select the key. Ideally the Real Name String or email will uniquely identify you and your key.
Ways of getting public keys of each other
Download the other’s key from a PGP keyserver, or a crypto party shared keyring.
Share out via email or thumb drive w/o any encryption.
bob emails alice bob’s public key w/o encryption. Then alice signs bob’s public key itself to vouch for bob’s key validity. alice sends bob two separate signed encrypted emails:
- An email with alice’s public key.
- An email with bobs’s public key, which now has a signature on it by alice.
gnupg setup; suggest installing the 2.1.x branch
Much of the informal help on the web is for the 1.4 branch, you have been warned. The #gnupg IRC group steered me to the 2.1.x branch; I seem to have fewer issues with it. The 2.1.x branch makes it simpler to move your secret key offline, and works well with the gpg-agent.
$GPGHOME dir and gpg.conf
gpg2 will create $GPGHOME/ and gpg.conf when you first use it.
I spent time trying to optimize my gpg.conf; this is the template I settled on.
At a minimum I suggest these additions to gpg.conf:
default-key YOUR_DEFAULT_KEY_EMAIL
default-recipient-self
# When outputting certificates, view user IDs distinctly from keys:
fixed-list-mode
# Display long key IDs
keyid-format 0xlong
# List all keys (or the specified ones) along with their fingerprints
with-fingerprint
# You should always know at a glance which User IDs gpg thinks are legitimately
# bound to the keys in your keyring:
verify-options show-uid-validity
list-options show-uid-validity
# prevent version string from appearing in your signatures/public keys
no-emit-version
ask-cert-level
# For --sign-key
gpg-agent cache-ttl
The time interval that the agent will cache your password is configurable. I find the defaults too short; hence the changes below:
bob@epjdn:~/.gnupg $ ls -log gpg-agent.conf; cat gpg-agent.conf
-rw-------. 1 561 May 22 06:49 gpg-agent.conf
# `--default-cache-ttl N'
# Set the time a cache entry is valid to N seconds. The default is
# 600 seconds.
default-cache-ttl 1800
# `--max-cache-ttl N'
# Set the maximum time a cache entry is valid to N seconds. After
# this time a cache entry will be expired even if it has been
# accessed recently. The default is 2 hours (7200 seconds).
pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-curses
enable-ssh-support
--snip
diceware for passphrases
This 1 line perl script, wrapped in a bash function is used to create passphrases:
$ type -a _make_passphrase_diceware
_make_passphrase_diceware is a function
_make_passphrase_diceware ()
{
<<'____eohd'
Credit to http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/by/zedlopez
See full blown script:
http://jimsun.linxnet.com/misc/roll-diceware.pl
roll-diceware.pl: roll-diceware - Generate Diceware pass-phrases
Copyright (C) 2004 by James S. Seymour, Release 0.0.1.
http://world.std.com/~reinhold/dicewarefaq.html
____eohd
perl -F'\s+' -anE 'push @w,$F[1] . " ";END{$r.=splice @w,rand @w,1 for(1..6);say "$r"}' ~/iBASHrc/for/usersTSR/db/diceware.wordlist.asc
}we’re assuming your name is Bob Covert
create your identity, your keypair
Ideally do this step on an air-gapped computer or one that can be temporally disconnected from Internet, so your secret (private master) key is never exposed to Internet; after creation, move secret key to thumb drive. This computer need only be offline for the time it takes to create the key and move it to backup thumb drives.
You might be tempted to publish this new public key to Internet. Suggest you consider this a test run, and that you delete and start over a time or two; even practice a dry run key exchange first before you publish to a keyserver. Once published you can revoke, but not delete; revoked key is there forever.
Walk though Key Creation & Exchange
This is the bulk of this post, and is long. “: #*” (bash NOPs) are used like markdown headers to document current focus or purpose.
We’re assuming your name is Bob Covert, and you want to exchange public keys with Alice Terminello where both of you meet face to face at a crypto party.
For this example on fedora 24, gpg2 was already installed by root on host “epjdn”, but bob, and alice have never touched it.
# 08:52:54 Wed 170531 ~
# bob@epjdn $ : # setup gpg
# 08:53:14 Wed 170531 ~
# bob@epjdn $ gpg2 -k
gpg: directory '/a/bob/.gnupg' created
gpg: new configuration file '/a/bob/.gnupg/dirmngr.conf' created
gpg: new configuration file '/a/bob/.gnupg/gpg.conf' created
gpg: keybox '/a/bob/.gnupg/pubring.kbx' created
gpg: /a/bob/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
# 08:53:29 Wed 170531 ~
# bob@epjdn $ install -m 600 ~theauthor/iBASHrc/gpg.conf.templ.minimal ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf
# 08:53:46 Wed 170531 ~
# bob@epjdn $ cd .gnupg/
# 08:54:31 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ sed -i '1cdefault-key bob@zq3q.org' gpg.conf
# 08:54:35 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ head -3 gpg.conf
default-key bob@zq3q.org
default-recipient-self
# 08:54:42 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ install -m 600 ~theauthor/iBASHrc/gpg-agent.conf.templ ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf
# 08:55:05 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ _make_passphrase_diceware
krebs knick 96th gist nag lame
# 08:55:48 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ : "Secret key about to be made, so Disconnect from Internet until it's off this host."
# 08:59:08 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ : # Make new key.
# 08:59:56 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ gpg2 --full-gen-key
gpg (GnuPG) 2.1.13; Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Please select what kind of key you want:
(1) RSA and RSA (default)
(2) DSA and Elgamal
(3) DSA (sign only)
(4) RSA (sign only)
Your selection? 1
RSA keys may be between 1024 and 4096 bits long.
What keysize do you want? (2048) 4096
Requested keysize is 4096 bits
Please specify how long the key should be valid.
0 = key does not expire
<n> = key expires in n days
<n>w = key expires in n weeks
<n>m = key expires in n months
<n>y = key expires in n years
Key is valid for? (0)
Key does not expire at all
Is this correct? (y/N) y
GnuPG needs to construct a user ID to identify your key.
Real name: Bob Covert
Email address: bob@zq3q.org
Comment:
You selected this USER-ID:
"Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>"
Change (N)ame, (C)omment, (E)mail or (O)kay/(Q)uit? o
We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
some other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize the
disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random number
generator a better chance to gain enough entropy.
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Please enter the passphrase to │
│ protect your new key │
│ │
│ Passphrase: ******************************__________ │
│ │
│ <OK> <Cancel> │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Please re-enter this passphrase │
│ │
│ Passphrase: ******************************__________ │
│ │
│ <OK> <Cancel> │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
some other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize the
disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random number
generator a better chance to gain enough entropy.
gpg: key 0x42874D18E36EC84D marked as ultimately trusted
gpg: directory '/a/bob/.gnupg/openpgp-revocs.d' created
gpg: revocation certificate stored as '/a/bob/.gnupg/openpgp-revocs.d/B123D2BFC40AF8133B6977C342874D18E36EC84D.rev'
public and secret key created and signed.
gpg: checking the trustdb
gpg: marginals needed: 3 completes needed: 1 trust model: pgp
gpg: depth: 0 valid: 1 signed: 0 trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 1u
pub rsa4096/0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 [S]
Key fingerprint = B123 D2BF C40A F813 3B69 77C3 4287 4D18 E36E C84D
uid [ultimate] Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x2C8F26845441B0A3 2017-05-31 []
# 09:01:28 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ gpg2 -K
/a/bob/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
-------------------------
sec rsa4096/0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = B123 D2BF C40A F813 3B69 77C3 4287 4D18 E36E C84D
uid [ultimate] Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
ssb rsa4096/0x2C8F26845441B0A3 2017-05-31 [E]
# 09:14:27 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ gpg2 -k
/a/bob/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
-------------------------
pub rsa4096/0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = B123 D2BF C40A F813 3B69 77C3 4287 4D18 E36E C84D
uid [ultimate] Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x2C8F26845441B0A3 2017-05-31 [E]
# 09:14:31 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ gpg2 --edit-key bob@zq3q.org
gpg (GnuPG) 2.1.13; Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Secret key is available.
sec rsa4096/0x42874D18E36EC84D
created: 2017-05-31 expires: never usage: SC
trust: ultimate validity: ultimate
ssb rsa4096/0x2C8F26845441B0A3
created: 2017-05-31 expires: never usage: E
[ultimate] (1). Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
gpg> addkey
Please select what kind of key you want:
(3) DSA (sign only)
(4) RSA (sign only)
(5) Elgamal (encrypt only)
(6) RSA (encrypt only)
Your selection? 4
RSA keys may be between 1024 and 4096 bits long.
What keysize do you want? (2048) 4096
Requested keysize is 4096 bits
Please specify how long the key should be valid.
0 = key does not expire
<n> = key expires in n days
<n>w = key expires in n weeks
<n>m = key expires in n months
<n>y = key expires in n years
Key is valid for? (0) 2m
Key expires at Sun 30 Jul 2017 09:15:26 AM CDT
Is this correct? (y/N) y
Really create? (y/N) y
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Please enter the passphrase to unlock the OpenPGP secret key: │
│ "Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>" │
│ 4096-bit RSA key, ID 0x42874D18E36EC84D, │
│ created 2017-05-31. │
│ │
│ │
│ Passphrase: ******************************____________________ │
│ │
│ <OK> <Cancel> │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
some other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize the
disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random number
generator a better chance to gain enough entropy.
sec rsa4096/0x42874D18E36EC84D
created: 2017-05-31 expires: never usage: SC
trust: ultimate validity: ultimate
ssb rsa4096/0x2C8F26845441B0A3
created: 2017-05-31 expires: never usage: E
ssb rsa4096/0x09611F04F4147BC6
created: 2017-05-31 expires: 2017-07-30 usage: S
[ultimate] (1). Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
gpg> quit
Save changes? (y/N) y
# 09:16:00 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ gpg2 -K
/a/bob/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
-------------------------
sec rsa4096/0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = B123 D2BF C40A F813 3B69 77C3 4287 4D18 E36E C84D
uid [ultimate] Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
ssb rsa4096/0x2C8F26845441B0A3 2017-05-31 [E]
ssb rsa4096/0x09611F04F4147BC6 2017-05-31 [S] [expires: 2017-07-30]
# 09:16:06 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ gpg2 -k
/a/bob/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
-------------------------
pub rsa4096/0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = B123 D2BF C40A F813 3B69 77C3 4287 4D18 E36E C84D
uid [ultimate] Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x2C8F26845441B0A3 2017-05-31 [E]
sub rsa4096/0x09611F04F4147BC6 2017-05-31 [S] [expires: 2017-07-30]
# 09:16:12 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ : # Backup this key, including secret key 'forever'.
# 09:17:15 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ _bd -a keybirth -d ~/attic
+ echo '_tar_dir_: creating [/a/bob/attic/epjdn..gnupg.1705310917.keybirth.tar.gz]'
_tar_dir_: creating [/a/bob/attic/epjdn..gnupg.1705310917.keybirth.tar.gz]
+ sleep 4
-rw-rw-r--. 1 12809 May 31 09:17 /a/bob/attic/epjdn..gnupg.1705310917.keybirth.tar.gz
# 09:17:31 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ : In real world case "attic/" would be a thumb drive
# 09:18:53 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ : # Disconnect thumb drive now, so secret key can go offline.
# 09:20:00 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ : # rm secret key from our key ring.
# 09:21:01 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ gpg2 --with-keygrip --list-key
/a/bob/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
-------------------------
pub rsa4096/0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = B123 D2BF C40A F813 3B69 77C3 4287 4D18 E36E C84D
Keygrip = C999595DE26BB23E12C0B48580AFA366F154F915
uid [ultimate] Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x2C8F26845441B0A3 2017-05-31 [E]
Keygrip = 0EBDF6B21939E2A9DD08047256EEFE37C09B7900
sub rsa4096/0x09611F04F4147BC6 2017-05-31 [S] [expires: 2017-07-30]
Keygrip = 484B65BB1A926C883EFF7FD25FA15236CAB201E0
# 09:21:14 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ rm private-keys-v1.d/C999595DE26BB23E12C0B48580AFA366F154F915.key # From pub Keygrip above.
# 09:21:54 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ gpg2 -K
/a/bob/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
-------------------------
sec# rsa4096/0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = B123 D2BF C40A F813 3B69 77C3 4287 4D18 E36E C84D
uid [ultimate] Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
ssb rsa4096/0x2C8F26845441B0A3 2017-05-31 [E]
ssb rsa4096/0x09611F04F4147BC6 2017-05-31 [S] [expires: 2017-07-30]
--snip : # Stay offline, chg pp for our key.
# 09:32:22 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ _make_passphrase_diceware
noaa duet dicta shako topic r's
# 09:32:32 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ gpg2 --edit-key bob
gpg (GnuPG) 2.1.13; Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Secret key is available.
pub rsa4096/0x42874D18E36EC84D
created: 2017-05-31 expires: never usage: SC
trust: ultimate validity: ultimate
ssb rsa4096/0x2C8F26845441B0A3
created: 2017-05-31 expires: never usage: E
ssb rsa4096/0x09611F04F4147BC6
created: 2017-05-31 expires: 2017-07-30 usage: S
[ultimate] (1). Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
gpg> password
gpg: key 0x42874D18E36EC84D/0x42874D18E36EC84D: error changing passphrase: No secret key
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Please enter the passphrase to unlock the OpenPGP secret key: │
│ "Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>" │
│ 4096-bit RSA key, ID 0x2C8F26845441B0A3, │
│ created 2017-05-31 (main key ID 0x42874D18E36EC84D). │
│ │
│ │
│ Passphrase: *******************************___________________ │
│ │
│ <OK> <Cancel> │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Please enter the passphrase to unlock the OpenPGP secret key: │
│ "Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>" │
│ 4096-bit RSA key, ID 0x2C8F26845441B0A3, │
│ created 2017-05-31 (main key ID 0x42874D18E36EC84D). │
│ │
│ │
│ Bad Passphrase (try 2 of 3) │
│ │
│ Passphrase: ******************************____________________ │
│ │
│ <OK> <Cancel> │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Please enter the new passphrase │
│ │
│ Passphrase: *******************************_________ │
│ │
│ <OK> <Cancel> │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Please re-enter this passphrase │
│ │
│ Passphrase: *******************************_________ │
│ │
│ <OK> <Cancel> │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
gpg> quit
# 09:34:12 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ : # Reconnect Internet. Secret key off line on thumb drive, and cur key has new pp.How Bob and Alice validate the other’s public key
prepare paper slips w/public key real name, email & fingerprint
After your key is created run and print out ‘gpg -k’:
# 09:26:44 Thu 170601 ~
# bob@epjdn $ gpg2 -k bob
pub rsa4096/0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = B123 D2BF C40A F813 3B69 77C3 4287 4D18 E36E C84D
uid [ultimate] Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x2C8F26845441B0A3 2017-05-31 [E]
sub rsa4096/0x09611F04F4147BC6 2017-05-31 [S] [expires: 2017-07-30]
--snip/improved example:
# 10:50:08 Fri 170602 ~
# bob@epjdn $ gpg2 -K --fingerprint --with-icao-spelling
/a/bob/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
-------------------------
sec# rsa4096/0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = B123 D2BF C40A F813 3B69 77C3 4287 4D18 E36E C84D
"Bravo One Two Three Delta Two Bravo Foxtrot
Charlie Four Zero Alfa Foxtrot Eight One Three
Three Bravo Six Niner Seven Seven Charlie Three
Four Two Eight Seven Four Delta One Eight
Echo Three Six Echo Charlie Eight Four Delta"
uid [ultimate] Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
--snipExchange these paper slips with each other.
When “gpg signing”, the two of you, meeting in person at the crypto party, will provide each other with this paper slip, and also present another suitable printed proof of identity.
After pub key is imported to your key ring, and before you sign it, run ‘gpg2 -k’ and validate that it’s uid and fingerprint agrees w/the paper slip.
Bob initiates key exchange w/Alice
# 09:37:54 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ gpg2 --armor --export bob@zq3q.org |mailx -s"My pub key, not encrypted. Pls sign and email back." alice@zq3q.org
# 09:40:01 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ : "Wait for alice's pub key and our looped-back/signed pub key."
--SNIP/switch to alice:
# 09:41:02 Wed 170531 ~
# alice@epjdn $
# 09:41:02 Wed 170531 ~
# alice@epjdn $ scan last
1 05/31 09:40-05 bob My pub key, not encrypted. Pls sign and email back.<<-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- mQINBFkuzJ4BEADDBaZwUrOC5zja5W34Or381BBbrSit5uTVb9CAPfNX
# 09:41:17 Wed 170531 ~
# alice@epjdn $ : # Setup gpg.
# 09:41:59 Wed 170531 ~
# alice@epjdn $ gpg2 -k
gpg: directory '/a/alice/.gnupg' created
gpg: new configuration file '/a/alice/.gnupg/dirmngr.conf' created
gpg: new configuration file '/a/alice/.gnupg/gpg.conf' created
gpg: keybox '/a/alice/.gnupg/pubring.kbx' created
gpg: /a/alice/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
# 09:42:11 Wed 170531 ~
# alice@epjdn $ cd .gnupg
# 09:42:27 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ install -m 600 ~theauthor/iBASHrc/gpg.conf.templ.minimal ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf
# 09:42:42 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ install -m 600 ~theauthor/iBASHrc/gpg-agent.conf.templ ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf
# 09:42:54 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ ls -l g*conf
-rw-------. 1 alice crew 561 May 31 09:42 gpg-agent.conf
-rw-------. 1 alice crew 1955 May 31 09:42 gpg.conf
# 09:43:08 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ sed -i '1cdefault-key alice@zq3q.org' gpg.conf
# 09:43:21 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ head -3 gpg.conf
default-key alice@zq3q.org
default-recipient-self
# 09:43:34 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ _make_passphrase_diceware
rl ussr dogma phd 76 gay
# 09:43:52 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ : # New key, disconnect Internet, we are creating a secret key.
# 09:45:04 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ gpg2 --full-gen-key
gpg (GnuPG) 2.1.13; Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Please select what kind of key you want:
(1) RSA and RSA (default)
(2) DSA and Elgamal
(3) DSA (sign only)
(4) RSA (sign only)
Your selection? 1
RSA keys may be between 1024 and 4096 bits long.
What keysize do you want? (2048) 4096
Requested keysize is 4096 bits
Please specify how long the key should be valid.
0 = key does not expire
<n> = key expires in n days
<n>w = key expires in n weeks
<n>m = key expires in n months
<n>y = key expires in n years
Key is valid for? (0)
Key does not expire at all
Is this correct? (y/N) y
GnuPG needs to construct a user ID to identify your key.
Real name: Alice Terminello
Email address: alice@zq3q.org
Comment:
You selected this USER-ID:
"Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>"
Change (N)ame, (C)omment, (E)mail or (O)kay/(Q)uit? o
We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
some other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize the
disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random number
generator a better chance to gain enough entropy.
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Please enter the passphrase to │
│ protect your new key │
│ │
│ Passphrase: ************************________________ │
│ │
│ <OK> <Cancel> │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Please re-enter this passphrase │
│ │
│ Passphrase: ************************________________ │
│ │
│ <OK> <Cancel> │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
some other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize the
disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random number
generator a better chance to gain enough entropy.
gpg: key 0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 marked as ultimately trusted
gpg: directory '/a/alice/.gnupg/openpgp-revocs.d' created
gpg: revocation certificate stored as '/a/alice/.gnupg/openpgp-revocs.d/6DC0004391EBA35873AA148CCAFCD0074F93BB48.rev'
public and secret key created and signed.
gpg: checking the trustdb
gpg: marginals needed: 3 completes needed: 1 trust model: pgp
gpg: depth: 0 valid: 1 signed: 0 trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 1u
pub rsa4096/0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 [S]
Key fingerprint = 6DC0 0043 91EB A358 73AA 148C CAFC D007 4F93 BB48
uid [ultimate] Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x022B72323C881C49 2017-05-31 []
# 09:46:41 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ gpg2 -K
/a/alice/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
---------------------------
sec rsa4096/0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = 6DC0 0043 91EB A358 73AA 148C CAFC D007 4F93 BB48
uid [ultimate] Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
ssb rsa4096/0x022B72323C881C49 2017-05-31 [E]
# 09:46:47 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ gpg2 -k
/a/alice/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
---------------------------
pub rsa4096/0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = 6DC0 0043 91EB A358 73AA 148C CAFC D007 4F93 BB48
uid [ultimate] Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x022B72323C881C49 2017-05-31 [E]
# 09:46:52 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ gpg2 --edit-key alice@zq3q.org
gpg (GnuPG) 2.1.13; Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Secret key is available.
sec rsa4096/0xCAFCD0074F93BB48
created: 2017-05-31 expires: never usage: SC
trust: ultimate validity: ultimate
ssb rsa4096/0x022B72323C881C49
created: 2017-05-31 expires: never usage: E
[ultimate] (1). Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
gpg> addkey
Please select what kind of key you want:
(3) DSA (sign only)
(4) RSA (sign only)
(5) Elgamal (encrypt only)
(6) RSA (encrypt only)
Your selection? 4
RSA keys may be between 1024 and 4096 bits long.
What keysize do you want? (2048) 4096
Requested keysize is 4096 bits
Please specify how long the key should be valid.
0 = key does not expire
<n> = key expires in n days
<n>w = key expires in n weeks
<n>m = key expires in n months
<n>y = key expires in n years
Key is valid for? (0) 2m
Key expires at Sun 30 Jul 2017 09:47:21 AM CDT
Is this correct? (y/N) y
Really create? (y/N) y
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Please enter the passphrase to unlock the OpenPGP secret key: │
│ "Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>" │
│ 4096-bit RSA key, ID 0xCAFCD0074F93BB48, │
│ created 2017-05-31. │
│ │
│ │
│ Passphrase: ************************__________________________ │
│ │
│ <OK> <Cancel> │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
some other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize the
disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random number
generator a better chance to gain enough entropy.
sec rsa4096/0xCAFCD0074F93BB48
created: 2017-05-31 expires: never usage: SC
trust: ultimate validity: ultimate
ssb rsa4096/0x022B72323C881C49
created: 2017-05-31 expires: never usage: E
ssb rsa4096/0x88764F991B6EF0AB
created: 2017-05-31 expires: 2017-07-30 usage: S
[ultimate] (1). Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
gpg> quit
Save changes? (y/N) y
# 09:47:49 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ gpg2 -K
/a/alice/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
---------------------------
sec rsa4096/0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = 6DC0 0043 91EB A358 73AA 148C CAFC D007 4F93 BB48
uid [ultimate] Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
ssb rsa4096/0x022B72323C881C49 2017-05-31 [E]
ssb rsa4096/0x88764F991B6EF0AB 2017-05-31 [S] [expires: 2017-07-30]
# 09:47:54 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ gpg2 -k
/a/alice/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
---------------------------
pub rsa4096/0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = 6DC0 0043 91EB A358 73AA 148C CAFC D007 4F93 BB48
uid [ultimate] Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x022B72323C881C49 2017-05-31 [E]
sub rsa4096/0x88764F991B6EF0AB 2017-05-31 [S] [expires: 2017-07-30]
# 09:47:57 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ : ## Backup key including secret key 'forever'.
# 09:48:53 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ _bd -a keybirth -d ~/attic
+ echo '_tar_dir_: creating [/a/alice/attic/epjdn..gnupg.1705310949.keybirth.tar.gz]'
_tar_dir_: creating [/a/alice/attic/epjdn..gnupg.1705310949.keybirth.tar.gz]
+ sleep 4
-rw-rw-r--. 1 12768 May 31 09:49 /a/alice/attic/epjdn..gnupg.1705310949.keybirth.tar.gz
# 09:49:13 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ : ## 'Thumb drive (attic) disconnect.'
# 09:50:02 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ : ## rm secret key:
# 09:50:39 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ gpg2 --with-keygrip --list-key
/a/alice/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
---------------------------
pub rsa4096/0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = 6DC0 0043 91EB A358 73AA 148C CAFC D007 4F93 BB48
Keygrip = B4C5A27C51651F0E36E9C4B2AC0E10D48B05332A
uid [ultimate] Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x022B72323C881C49 2017-05-31 [E]
Keygrip = A9199F15961702F26194F1E6ED68EE9312218AA6
sub rsa4096/0x88764F991B6EF0AB 2017-05-31 [S] [expires: 2017-07-30]
Keygrip = A3D00D811998EDECD38064B2E814A31B60321952
# 09:50:57 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ rm private-keys-v1.d/B4C5A27C51651F0E36E9C4B2AC0E10D48B05332A.key # From pub key keygrip.
# 09:51:40 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ gpg2 -K
/a/alice/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
---------------------------
sec# rsa4096/0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = 6DC0 0043 91EB A358 73AA 148C CAFC D007 4F93 BB48
uid [ultimate] Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
ssb rsa4096/0x022B72323C881C49 2017-05-31 [E]
ssb rsa4096/0x88764F991B6EF0AB 2017-05-31 [S] [expires: 2017-07-30]
# 09:52:07 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ : # Still off Internet. Chg passphrase from backed up secret key value.
# 09:54:29 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ _make_passphrase_diceware
mid 234 abe 999 sibyl lo
# 09:54:49 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ gpg2 --edit-key alice
gpg (GnuPG) 2.1.13; Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Secret key is available.
pub rsa4096/0xCAFCD0074F93BB48
created: 2017-05-31 expires: never usage: SC
trust: ultimate validity: ultimate
ssb rsa4096/0x022B72323C881C49
created: 2017-05-31 expires: never usage: E
ssb rsa4096/0x88764F991B6EF0AB
created: 2017-05-31 expires: 2017-07-30 usage: S
[ultimate] (1). Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
gpg> password
gpg: key 0xCAFCD0074F93BB48/0xCAFCD0074F93BB48: error changing passphrase: No secret key
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Please enter the passphrase to unlock the OpenPGP secret key: │
│ "Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>" │
│ 4096-bit RSA key, ID 0x022B72323C881C49, │
│ created 2017-05-31 (main key ID 0xCAFCD0074F93BB48). │
│ │
│ │
│ Passphrase: ************************__________________________ │
│ │
│ <OK> <Cancel> │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Please enter the new passphrase │
│ │
│ Passphrase: ************************________________ │
│ │
│ <OK> <Cancel> │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Please re-enter this passphrase │
│ │
│ Passphrase: ************************________________ │
│ │
│ <OK> <Cancel> │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
gpg> quit
# 10:00:30 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ : Stay off line.
# 10:02:15 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ : # "Sign Bob's key. We need the secret key, stay offline, goto thumb drive."
# 10:03:11 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ c a
# 10:03:14 Wed 170531 ~/attic
# alice@epjdn $ ls -l
total 16
-rw-rw-r--. 1 alice crew 12768 May 31 09:49 epjdn..gnupg.1705310949.keybirth.tar.gz
# 10:03:19 Wed 170531 ~/attic
# alice@epjdn $ _ut
_ut _utc _utf8@
# 10:03:19 Wed 170531 ~/attic
# alice@epjdn $ _ut epjdn..gnupg.1705310949.keybirth.tar.gz
total 32K
-rw-------. 1 alice crew 2.6K May 31 09:42 dirmngr.conf
-rw-------. 1 alice crew 561 May 31 09:42 gpg-agent.conf
-rw-------. 1 alice crew 1.9K May 31 09:43 gpg.conf
-rw-------. 1 alice crew 1.3K May 31 09:46 trustdb.gpg
-rw-rw-r--. 1 alice crew 2.4K May 31 09:46 pubring.kbx~
drwx------. 2 alice crew 4.0K May 31 09:46 openpgp-revocs.d/
drwx------. 2 alice crew 4.0K May 31 09:47 private-keys-v1.d/
-rw-rw-r--. 1 alice crew 4.0K May 31 09:47 pubring.kbx
# 10:03:55 Wed 170531 ~/tmp/_untartmp.dl.UEUPyGO8/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ export GNUPGHOME=$PWD
# 10:04:19 Wed 170531 ~/tmp/_untartmp.dl.UEUPyGO8/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ gpg2 -K
/a/alice/tmp/_untartmp.dl.UEUPyGO8/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
-----------------------------------------------------
sec rsa4096/0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = 6DC0 0043 91EB A358 73AA 148C CAFC D007 4F93 BB48
uid [ultimate] Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
ssb rsa4096/0x022B72323C881C49 2017-05-31 [E]
ssb rsa4096/0x88764F991B6EF0AB 2017-05-31 [S] [expires: 2017-07-30]
# 10:04:36 Wed 170531 ~/tmp/_untartmp.dl.UEUPyGO8/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ gpg2 -k
/a/alice/tmp/_untartmp.dl.UEUPyGO8/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
-----------------------------------------------------
pub rsa4096/0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = 6DC0 0043 91EB A358 73AA 148C CAFC D007 4F93 BB48
uid [ultimate] Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x022B72323C881C49 2017-05-31 [E]
sub rsa4096/0x88764F991B6EF0AB 2017-05-31 [S] [expires: 2017-07-30]
# 10:05:15 Wed 170531 ~/tmp/_untartmp.dl.UEUPyGO8/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ : ## "Import bob's unencrypted pub key, then sign."
# 10:05:48 Wed 170531 ~/tmp/_untartmp.dl.UEUPyGO8/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ scan last
1 05/31 09:40-05 bob My pub key, not encrypted. Pls sign and email back.<<-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- mQINBFkuzJ4BEADDBaZwUrOC5zja5W34Or381BBbrSit5uTVb9CAPfNX
# 10:05:52 Wed 170531 ~/tmp/_untartmp.dl.UEUPyGO8/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ gpg2 --import < /a/alice/Mail/inbox/1
gpg: key 0x42874D18E36EC84D: public key "Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1
# 10:06:38 Wed 170531 ~/tmp/_untartmp.dl.UEUPyGO8/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ gpg2 --sign-key bob@zq3q.org
pub rsa4096/0x42874D18E36EC84D
created: 2017-05-31 expires: never usage: SC
trust: unknown validity: unknown
sub rsa4096/0x2C8F26845441B0A3
created: 2017-05-31 expires: never usage: E
sub rsa4096/0x09611F04F4147BC6
created: 2017-05-31 expires: 2017-07-30 usage: S
[ unknown] (1). Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
gpg: using "alice@zq3q.org" as default secret key for signing
pub rsa4096/0x42874D18E36EC84D
created: 2017-05-31 expires: never usage: SC
trust: unknown validity: unknown
Primary key fingerprint: B123 D2BF C40A F813 3B69 77C3 4287 4D18 E36E C84D
Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
How carefully have you verified the key you are about to sign actually belongs
to the person named above? If you don't know what to answer, enter "0".
(0) I will not answer. (default)
(1) I have not checked at all.
(2) I have done casual checking.
(3) I have done very careful checking.
Your selection? (enter '?' for more information): 2
Are you sure that you want to sign this key with your
key "Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>" (0xCAFCD0074F93BB48)
I have checked this key casually.
Really sign? (y/N) y
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Please enter the passphrase to unlock the OpenPGP secret key: │
│ "Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>" │
│ 4096-bit RSA key, ID 0xCAFCD0074F93BB48, │
│ created 2017-05-31. │
│ │
│ │
│ Passphrase: ************************__________________________ │
│ │
│ <OK> <Cancel> │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
# 10:07:23 Wed 170531 ~/tmp/_untartmp.dl.UEUPyGO8/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ gpg2 --list-sigs
gpg: checking the trustdb
gpg: marginals needed: 3 completes needed: 1 trust model: pgp
gpg: depth: 0 valid: 1 signed: 1 trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 1u
gpg: depth: 1 valid: 1 signed: 0 trust: 1-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 0u
/a/alice/tmp/_untartmp.dl.UEUPyGO8/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
-----------------------------------------------------
pub rsa4096/0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = 6DC0 0043 91EB A358 73AA 148C CAFC D007 4F93 BB48
uid [ultimate] Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
sig 3 0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x022B72323C881C49 2017-05-31 [E]
sig 0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x88764F991B6EF0AB 2017-05-31 [S] [expires: 2017-07-30]
sig 0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
pub rsa4096/0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = B123 D2BF C40A F813 3B69 77C3 4287 4D18 E36E C84D
uid [ full ] Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
sig 3 0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
sig 2 0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x2C8F26845441B0A3 2017-05-31 [E]
sig 0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x09611F04F4147BC6 2017-05-31 [S] [expires: 2017-07-30]
sig 0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
# 10:07:37 Wed 170531 ~/tmp/_untartmp.dl.UEUPyGO8/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ : ## Loop back signed key via email, also to self. Assume mail queues OK, since we are offline.
# 10:10:03 Wed 170531 ~/tmp/_untartmp.dl.UEUPyGO8/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ gpg2 --armor --export bob | gpg2 --sign --encrypt --armor --recipient bob |mailx -s "Your pub key signed by me. Pls use --decrypt." bob@zq3q.org
gpg: using "alice@zq3q.org" as default secret key for signing
# 10:11:03 Wed 170531 ~/tmp/_untartmp.dl.UEUPyGO8/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ gpg2 --armor --export bob |mailx -s "Bob's pub key signed by me." alice@zq3q.org
# 10:11:25 Wed 170531 ~/tmp/_untartmp.dl.UEUPyGO8/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ : ## Mop up temp dir.
# 10:11:49 Wed 170531 ~/tmp/_untartmp.dl.UEUPyGO8/.gnupg
# alice@epjdn $ cd
# 10:11:51 Wed 170531 ~
# alice@epjdn $ echo ~/tmp/_untartmp.dl.UEUPyGO8/
.gnupg/ _untar_pkg-cleanup.sh*
# 10:11:51 Wed 170531 ~
# alice@epjdn $ echo /a/alice/tmp/_untartmp.dl.UEUPyGO8/_untar_pkg-cleanup.sh |at now +1 hour
warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
job 73 at Wed May 31 11:13:00 2017
inbox has mail
# 10:13:31 Wed 170531 ~
# alice@epjdn $ unset GNUPGHOME
# 10:14:03 Wed 170531 ~
# alice@epjdn $ pgrep 'gpg-agent.*alice'
+ command pgrep -l -f -a 'gpg-agent.*alice'
+ pgrep -l -f -a 'gpg-agent.*alice'
25746 gpg-agent --homedir /a/alice/.gnupg --use-standard-socket --daemon
26607 gpg-agent --homedir /a/alice/tmp/_untartmp.dl.UEUPyGO8/.gnupg --use-standard-socket --daemon
# 10:14:40 Wed 170531 ~
# alice@epjdn $ kill 26607
# 10:15:17 Wed 170531 ~
# alice@epjdn $ gpg2 -k
/a/alice/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
---------------------------
pub rsa4096/0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = 6DC0 0043 91EB A358 73AA 148C CAFC D007 4F93 BB48
uid [ultimate] Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x022B72323C881C49 2017-05-31 [E]
sub rsa4096/0x88764F991B6EF0AB 2017-05-31 [S] [expires: 2017-07-30]
# 10:16:16 Wed 170531 ~
# alice@epjdn $ scan last
2 05/31 10:11-05 alice Bob's pub key signed by me.<<-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- mQINBFkuzJ4BEADDBaZwUrOC5zja5W34Or381BBbrSit5uTVb9CAPfNXss+MAFhf QvuXhcjitCmyW
# 10:16:30 Wed 170531 ~
# alice@epjdn $ : ## Import key we just signed. Ok to be online now.
# 10:17:11 Wed 170531 ~
# alice@epjdn $ gpg2 --import < /a/alice/Mail/inbox/2
gpg: key 0x42874D18E36EC84D: public key "Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1
gpg: marginals needed: 3 completes needed: 1 trust model: pgp
gpg: depth: 0 valid: 1 signed: 1 trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 1u
gpg: depth: 1 valid: 1 signed: 0 trust: 1-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 0u
# 10:17:35 Wed 170531 ~
# alice@epjdn $ gpg2 --list-sigs
/a/alice/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
---------------------------
pub rsa4096/0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = 6DC0 0043 91EB A358 73AA 148C CAFC D007 4F93 BB48
uid [ultimate] Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
sig 3 0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x022B72323C881C49 2017-05-31 [E]
sig 0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x88764F991B6EF0AB 2017-05-31 [S] [expires: 2017-07-30]
sig 0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
pub rsa4096/0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = B123 D2BF C40A F813 3B69 77C3 4287 4D18 E36E C84D
uid [ full ] Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
sig 3 0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
sig 2 0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x2C8F26845441B0A3 2017-05-31 [E]
sig 0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x09611F04F4147BC6 2017-05-31 [S] [expires: 2017-07-30]
sig 0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
# 10:17:46 Wed 170531 ~
# alice@epjdn $ : # Export/Email our pub key to new contact.
# 10:19:21 Wed 170531 ~
# alice@epjdn $ gpg2 --armor --export alice | gpg2 --sign --encrypt --armor --recipient bob |mailx -s "My public key. Pls use --decrypt. Pls sign and return." bob@zq3q.org
gpg: using "alice@zq3q.org" as default secret key for signing
gpg: signing failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
gpg: [stdin]: sign+encrypt failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
# 10:19:53 Wed 170531 ~
# alice@epjdn $ _gpa
-bash: _gpa: command not found
# 10:20:15 Wed 170531 ~
# alice@epjdn $ _gpg
+ echo hi
+ gpg2 --clearsign /a/alice/tmp/_gpg.yv6hS
gpg: using "alice@zq3q.org" as default secret key for signing
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Please enter the passphrase to unlock the OpenPGP secret key: │
│ "Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>" │
│ 4096-bit RSA key, ID 0x88764F991B6EF0AB, │
│ created 2017-05-31 (main key ID 0xCAFCD0074F93BB48). │
│ │
│ │
│ Passphrase: ************************__________________________ │
│ │
│ <OK> <Cancel> │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
# 10:20:39 Wed 170531 ~
# alice@epjdn $ gpg2 --armor --export alice | gpg2 --sign --encrypt --armor --recipient bob |mailx -s "My public key. Pls use --decrypt. Pls sign and return." bob@zq3q.org
gpg: using "alice@zq3q.org" as default secret key for signing
# 10:20:45 Wed 170531 ~
# alice@epjdn $ : # "Wait for email w/new-contact-signed pub key (our's)."
--SNIP/switch back to bob:
# 09:40:21 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ gpg2 -K
/a/bob/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
-------------------------
sec# rsa4096/0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = B123 D2BF C40A F813 3B69 77C3 4287 4D18 E36E C84D
uid [ultimate] Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
ssb rsa4096/0x2C8F26845441B0A3 2017-05-31 [E]
ssb rsa4096/0x09611F04F4147BC6 2017-05-31 [S] [expires: 2017-07-30]
inbox has mail
# 10:23:43 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ gpg2 -k
/a/bob/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
-------------------------
pub rsa4096/0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = B123 D2BF C40A F813 3B69 77C3 4287 4D18 E36E C84D
uid [ultimate] Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x2C8F26845441B0A3 2017-05-31 [E]
sub rsa4096/0x09611F04F4147BC6 2017-05-31 [S] [expires: 2017-07-30]
# 10:23:49 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ tt
inbox+ has 3 messages (1-3); (others).
1 05/31 10:11-05 alice Your pub key signed by me. Pls use --decrypt.<<-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- hQIMAyyPJoRUQbCjAQ//ap86oYy3IFTt+ZUDZr8bRKK+Vg/Aew0qLkztArZEgpu4 pAIL
2 05/31 10:19-05 alice My public key. Pls use --decrypt. Pls sign and return.<<-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- hQIMAyyPJoRUQbCjAQ/+MHxyioyfSfufuxkiCbpg2odLTin6jnZ/dZbTpul/
3 05/31 10:20-05 alice My public key. Pls use --decrypt. Pls sign and return.<<-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- hQIMAyyPJoRUQbCjARAAqsXVsxkf327VRemiidU6vEjH2/oSowd4g0Q5PAjh
# 10:25:00 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ rmm 2
+ command rmm 2
+ rmm 2
+ command folder
+ folder
inbox+ has 2 messages (1-3); (others).
# 10:25:15 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ : # Sign alices pub key first. Key signing is done off Internet.
# 10:26:23 Wed 170531 ~/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ c a
# 10:26:25 Wed 170531 ~/attic
# bob@epjdn $ ls
epjdn..gnupg.1705310917.keybirth.tar.gz
# 10:26:36 Wed 170531 ~/attic
# bob@epjdn $ _ut epjdn..gnupg.1705310917.keybirth.tar.gz
total 32K
-rw-------. 1 bob crew 2.6K May 31 08:53 dirmngr.conf
-rw-------. 1 bob crew 1.9K May 31 08:54 gpg.conf
-rw-------. 1 bob crew 561 May 31 08:55 gpg-agent.conf
-rw-rw-r--. 1 bob crew 2.4K May 31 09:01 pubring.kbx~
-rw-------. 1 bob crew 1.3K May 31 09:01 trustdb.gpg
drwx------. 2 bob crew 4.0K May 31 09:01 openpgp-revocs.d/
drwx------. 2 bob crew 4.0K May 31 09:15 private-keys-v1.d/
-rw-rw-r--. 1 bob crew 4.0K May 31 09:16 pubring.kbx
# 10:27:00 Wed 170531 ~/tmp/_untartmp.dl.AcaXbQuO/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ export GNUPGHOME=$PWD
# 10:27:19 Wed 170531 ~/tmp/_untartmp.dl.AcaXbQuO/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ gpg2 -K
/a/bob/tmp/_untartmp.dl.AcaXbQuO/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
---------------------------------------------------
sec rsa4096/0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = B123 D2BF C40A F813 3B69 77C3 4287 4D18 E36E C84D
uid [ultimate] Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
ssb rsa4096/0x2C8F26845441B0A3 2017-05-31 [E]
ssb rsa4096/0x09611F04F4147BC6 2017-05-31 [S] [expires: 2017-07-30]
# 10:27:37 Wed 170531 ~/tmp/_untartmp.dl.AcaXbQuO/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ gpg2 --decrypt < /a/bob/Mail/inbox/3 | gpg2 --import
gpg: encrypted with 4096-bit RSA key, ID 0x2C8F26845441B0A3, created 2017-05-31
"Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>"
gpg: public key decryption failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
gpg: decryption failed: No secret key
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
gpg: Total number processed: 0
# 10:29:43 Wed 170531 ~/tmp/_untartmp.dl.AcaXbQuO/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ _gpg
+ echo hi
+ gpg2 --clearsign /a/bob/tmp/_gpg.7zbo5
gpg: using "bob@zq3q.org" as default secret key for signing
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Please enter the passphrase to unlock the OpenPGP secret key: │
│ "Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>" │
│ 4096-bit RSA key, ID 0x09611F04F4147BC6, │
│ created 2017-05-31 (main key ID 0x42874D18E36EC84D). │
│ │
│ │
│ Passphrase: ******************************____________________ │
│ │
│ <OK> <Cancel> │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
# 10:30:55 Wed 170531 ~/tmp/_untartmp.dl.AcaXbQuO/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ gpg2 --decrypt < /a/bob/Mail/inbox/3 | gpg2 --import
gpg: encrypted with 4096-bit RSA key, ID 0x2C8F26845441B0A3, created 2017-05-31
"Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>"
gpg: Signature made Wed 31 May 2017 10:20:45 AM CDT
gpg: using RSA key 0x88764F991B6EF0AB
gpg: Can't check signature: No public key
gpg: key 0xCAFCD0074F93BB48: public key "Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1
# 10:30:59 Wed 170531 ~/tmp/_untartmp.dl.AcaXbQuO/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ gpg2 --sign-key alice
pub rsa4096/0xCAFCD0074F93BB48
created: 2017-05-31 expires: never usage: SC
trust: unknown validity: unknown
sub rsa4096/0x022B72323C881C49
created: 2017-05-31 expires: never usage: E
sub rsa4096/0x88764F991B6EF0AB
created: 2017-05-31 expires: 2017-07-30 usage: S
[ unknown] (1). Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
gpg: using "bob@zq3q.org" as default secret key for signing
pub rsa4096/0xCAFCD0074F93BB48
created: 2017-05-31 expires: never usage: SC
trust: unknown validity: unknown
Primary key fingerprint: 6DC0 0043 91EB A358 73AA 148C CAFC D007 4F93 BB48
Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
How carefully have you verified the key you are about to sign actually belongs
to the person named above? If you don't know what to answer, enter "0".
(0) I will not answer. (default)
(1) I have not checked at all.
(2) I have done casual checking.
(3) I have done very careful checking.
Your selection? (enter '?' for more information): 2
Are you sure that you want to sign this key with your
key "Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>" (0x42874D18E36EC84D)
I have checked this key casually.
Really sign? (y/N) y
# 10:31:25 Wed 170531 ~/tmp/_untartmp.dl.AcaXbQuO/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ gpg2 --list-sigs
gpg: checking the trustdb
gpg: marginals needed: 3 completes needed: 1 trust model: pgp
gpg: depth: 0 valid: 1 signed: 1 trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 1u
gpg: depth: 1 valid: 1 signed: 0 trust: 1-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 0u
/a/bob/tmp/_untartmp.dl.AcaXbQuO/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
---------------------------------------------------
pub rsa4096/0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = B123 D2BF C40A F813 3B69 77C3 4287 4D18 E36E C84D
uid [ultimate] Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
sig 3 0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x2C8F26845441B0A3 2017-05-31 [E]
sig 0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x09611F04F4147BC6 2017-05-31 [S] [expires: 2017-07-30]
sig 0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
pub rsa4096/0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = 6DC0 0043 91EB A358 73AA 148C CAFC D007 4F93 BB48
uid [ full ] Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
sig 3 0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
sig 2 0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x022B72323C881C49 2017-05-31 [E]
sig 0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x88764F991B6EF0AB 2017-05-31 [S] [expires: 2017-07-30]
sig 0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
# 10:31:53 Wed 170531 ~/tmp/_untartmp.dl.AcaXbQuO/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ : ## Email new contact pub key we just signed to contact and ourself.
# 10:32:38 Wed 170531 ~/tmp/_untartmp.dl.AcaXbQuO/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ gpg2 --armor --export alice|gpg2 --sign -encrypt --armor --recipient alice|mailx -s "I signed your public key. Use --decrypt." alice@zq3q.org
gpg: problem with the agent: Inappropriate ioctl for device
gpg: [stdin]: symmetric+sign+encrypt failed: Operation cancelled
Null message body; hope that's ok
--snip: Typo above "-encrypt".
# 10:33:52 Wed 170531 ~/tmp/_untartmp.dl.AcaXbQuO/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ gpg2 --armor --export alice|gpg2 --sign --encrypt --armor --recipient alice|mailx -s "I signed your public key. Use --decrypt." alice@zq3q.org
gpg: using "bob@zq3q.org" as default secret key for signing
# 10:34:56 Wed 170531 ~/tmp/_untartmp.dl.AcaXbQuO/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ gpg2 --armor --export alice|mailx -s "I signed alice's public key. You should import it." bob@zq3q.org
# 10:35:22 Wed 170531 ~/tmp/_untartmp.dl.AcaXbQuO/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ : # Mop up.
inbox has mail
# 10:36:06 Wed 170531 ~/tmp/_untartmp.dl.AcaXbQuO/.gnupg
# bob@epjdn $ cd
# 10:36:09 Wed 170531 ~
# bob@epjdn $ echo ~/tmp/_untartmp.dl.AcaXbQuO/.gnupg/
S.gpg-agent= dirmngr.conf gpg.conf private-keys-v1.d/ pubring.kbx~ trustdb.gpg
S.gpg-agent.ssh= gpg-agent.conf openpgp-revocs.d/ pubring.kbx random_seed
# 10:36:09 Wed 170531 ~
# bob@epjdn $ echo /a/bob/tmp/_untartmp.dl.AcaXbQuO/
.gnupg/ _untar_pkg-cleanup.sh*
# 10:36:09 Wed 170531 ~
# bob@epjdn $ echo /a/bob/tmp/_untartmp.dl.AcaXbQuO/_untar_pkg-cleanup.sh | at now +1 hour
warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
job 74 at Wed May 31 11:37:00 2017
# 10:37:25 Wed 170531 ~
# bob@epjdn $ unset GNUPGHOME
# 10:37:36 Wed 170531 ~
# bob@epjdn $ gpg2 -K
/a/bob/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
-------------------------
sec# rsa4096/0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = B123 D2BF C40A F813 3B69 77C3 4287 4D18 E36E C84D
uid [ultimate] Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
ssb rsa4096/0x2C8F26845441B0A3 2017-05-31 [E]
ssb rsa4096/0x09611F04F4147BC6 2017-05-31 [S] [expires: 2017-07-30]
# 10:38:00 Wed 170531 ~
# bob@epjdn $ gpg2 -k
/a/bob/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
-------------------------
pub rsa4096/0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = B123 D2BF C40A F813 3B69 77C3 4287 4D18 E36E C84D
uid [ultimate] Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x2C8F26845441B0A3 2017-05-31 [E]
sub rsa4096/0x09611F04F4147BC6 2017-05-31 [S] [expires: 2017-07-30]
# 10:38:16 Wed 170531 ~
# bob@epjdn $ tt 3
inbox+ has 3 messages (1-4); (others).
1 05/31 10:11-05 alice Your pub key signed by me. Pls use --decrypt.<<-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- hQIMAyyPJoRUQbCjAQ//ap86oYy3IFTt+ZUDZr8bRKK+Vg/Aew0qLkztArZEgpu4 pAIL
3 05/31 10:20-05 alice My public key. Pls use --decrypt. Pls sign and return.<<-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- hQIMAyyPJoRUQbCjARAAqsXVsxkf327VRemiidU6vEjH2/oSowd4g0Q5PAjh
4 05/31 10:35-05 bob I signed alice's public key. You should import it.<<-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- mQINBFku1ywBEACfv1tTjp4dkQhb+P/dkjJnBYuR8/0i0gS/7m5tgQLFF
# 10:38:30 Wed 170531 ~
# bob@epjdn $ gpg2 --import < /a/bob/Mail/inbox/4
gpg: key 0xCAFCD0074F93BB48: public key "Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1
gpg: marginals needed: 3 completes needed: 1 trust model: pgp
gpg: depth: 0 valid: 1 signed: 1 trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 1u
gpg: depth: 1 valid: 1 signed: 0 trust: 1-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 0u
# 10:39:23 Wed 170531 ~
# bob@epjdn $ gpg2 --list-sigs
/a/bob/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
-------------------------
pub rsa4096/0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = B123 D2BF C40A F813 3B69 77C3 4287 4D18 E36E C84D
uid [ultimate] Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
sig 3 0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x2C8F26845441B0A3 2017-05-31 [E]
sig 0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x09611F04F4147BC6 2017-05-31 [S] [expires: 2017-07-30]
sig 0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
pub rsa4096/0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = 6DC0 0043 91EB A358 73AA 148C CAFC D007 4F93 BB48
uid [ full ] Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
sig 3 0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
sig 2 0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x022B72323C881C49 2017-05-31 [E]
sig 0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x88764F991B6EF0AB 2017-05-31 [S] [expires: 2017-07-30]
sig 0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
# 10:39:36 Wed 170531 ~
# bob@epjdn $ : # Import my pub key, now signed by alice.
# 10:42:55 Wed 170531 ~
# bob@epjdn $ gpg2 --decrypt < /a/bob/Mail/inbox/1 | gpg2 --import
gpg: encrypted with 4096-bit RSA key, ID 0x2C8F26845441B0A3, created 2017-05-31
"Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>"
gpg: public key decryption failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
gpg: decryption failed: No secret key
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
gpg: Total number processed: 0
# 10:44:50 Wed 170531 ~
# bob@epjdn $ _gpg
+ echo hi
+ gpg2 --clearsign /a/bob/tmp/_gpg.WHcnV
gpg: using "bob@zq3q.org" as default secret key for signing
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Please enter the passphrase to unlock the OpenPGP secret key: │
│ "Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>" │
│ 4096-bit RSA key, ID 0x09611F04F4147BC6, │
│ created 2017-05-31 (main key ID 0x42874D18E36EC84D). │
│ │
│ │
│ Passphrase: *******************************___________________ │
│ │
│ <OK> <Cancel> │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
# 10:45:46 Wed 170531 ~
# bob@epjdn $ gpg2 --decrypt < /a/bob/Mail/inbox/1 | gpg2 --import
gpg: encrypted with 4096-bit RSA key, ID 0x2C8F26845441B0A3, created 2017-05-31
"Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>"
gpg: Signature made Wed 31 May 2017 10:11:02 AM CDT
gpg: using RSA key 0x88764F991B6EF0AB
gpg: Good signature from "Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>" [full]
Primary key fingerprint: 6DC0 0043 91EB A358 73AA 148C CAFC D007 4F93 BB48
Subkey fingerprint: 88CA 5836 B635 B567 654F 2BBB 8876 4F99 1B6E F0AB
gpg: key 0x42874D18E36EC84D: "Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>" 1 new signature
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: new signatures: 1
gpg: marginals needed: 3 completes needed: 1 trust model: pgp
gpg: depth: 0 valid: 1 signed: 1 trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 1u
gpg: depth: 1 valid: 1 signed: 0 trust: 1-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 0u
# 10:45:55 Wed 170531 ~
# bob@epjdn $ gpg2 --list-sigs
/a/bob/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
-------------------------
pub rsa4096/0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = B123 D2BF C40A F813 3B69 77C3 4287 4D18 E36E C84D
uid [ultimate] Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
sig 3 0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
sig 2 0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x2C8F26845441B0A3 2017-05-31 [E]
sig 0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x09611F04F4147BC6 2017-05-31 [S] [expires: 2017-07-30]
sig 0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
pub rsa4096/0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = 6DC0 0043 91EB A358 73AA 148C CAFC D007 4F93 BB48
uid [ full ] Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
sig 3 0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
sig 2 0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x022B72323C881C49 2017-05-31 [E]
sig 0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x88764F991B6EF0AB 2017-05-31 [S] [expires: 2017-07-30]
sig 0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
# 10:46:03 Wed 170531 ~
# bob@epjdn $ : # DONE: "Bob's pub key is signed, Alice's also and both on Bob's keyring.
# 10:48:18 Wed 170531 ~
# bob@epjdn $
--SNIP/swto alice:
# 10:22:42 Wed 170531 ~
# alice@epjdn $ tt 3
inbox+ has 4 messages (1-4).
2 05/31 10:11-05 alice Bob's pub key signed by me.<<-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- mQINBFkuzJ4BEADDBaZwUrOC5zja5W34Or381BBbrSit5uTVb9CAPfNXss+MAFhf QvuXhcjitCmyW
3 05/31 10:33-05 bob I signed your public key. Use --decrypt.<<
4 05/31 10:34-05 bob I signed your public key. Use --decrypt.<<-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- hQIMAwIrcjI8iBxJAQ/7Bcso29vreR3PARHeWrsZeGEXhXf3mV6N90YX//mbOShj 6q2zJZ8i4W5
inbox has mail
# 10:49:11 Wed 170531 ~
# alice@epjdn $ rmm 3 # Bob's gpg-agent failed since pp not loaded.
+ command rmm 3
+ rmm 3
+ command folder
+ folder
inbox+ has 3 messages (1-4).
# 10:49:33 Wed 170531 ~
# alice@epjdn $ : # "Import new-contact-signed pub key (ours)."
# 10:50:29 Wed 170531 ~
# alice@epjdn $ gpg2 --decrypt < /a/alice/Mail/inbox/4 |gpg2 --import
gpg: encrypted with 4096-bit RSA key, ID 0x022B72323C881C49, created 2017-05-31
"Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>"
gpg: Signature made Wed 31 May 2017 10:34:55 AM CDT
gpg: using RSA key 0x09611F04F4147BC6
gpg: Good signature from "Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>" [full]
Primary key fingerprint: B123 D2BF C40A F813 3B69 77C3 4287 4D18 E36E C84D
Subkey fingerprint: CDD9 E4DE 942B 1118 541C 4ACA 0961 1F04 F414 7BC6
gpg: key 0xCAFCD0074F93BB48: "Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>" 1 new signature
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: new signatures: 1
gpg: marginals needed: 3 completes needed: 1 trust model: pgp
gpg: depth: 0 valid: 1 signed: 1 trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 1u
gpg: depth: 1 valid: 1 signed: 0 trust: 1-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 0u
# 10:51:28 Wed 170531 ~
# alice@epjdn $ gpg2 --list-sigs
/a/alice/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
---------------------------
pub rsa4096/0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = 6DC0 0043 91EB A358 73AA 148C CAFC D007 4F93 BB48
uid [ultimate] Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
sig 3 0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
sig 2 0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x022B72323C881C49 2017-05-31 [E]
sig 0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x88764F991B6EF0AB 2017-05-31 [S] [expires: 2017-07-30]
sig 0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
pub rsa4096/0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 [SC]
Key fingerprint = B123 D2BF C40A F813 3B69 77C3 4287 4D18 E36E C84D
uid [ full ] Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
sig 3 0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
sig 2 0xCAFCD0074F93BB48 2017-05-31 Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x2C8F26845441B0A3 2017-05-31 [E]
sig 0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
sub rsa4096/0x09611F04F4147BC6 2017-05-31 [S] [expires: 2017-07-30]
sig 0x42874D18E36EC84D 2017-05-31 Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>
# 10:51:39 Wed 170531 ~
# alice@epjdn $ : # DONE: "Both pub keys signed and on alice's keyring"
# 10:52:09 Wed 170531 ~
# alice@epjdn $
Simple Use case examples PGP
Example of clear signed msg
# 14:29:03 Thu 170601 ~
# bob@epjdn $ echo Hi 1 2 3.|gpg2 --clearsign
gpg: using "bob@zq3q.org" as default secret key for signing
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA256
Hi 1 2 3.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
iQIqBAEBCAAUBQJZMGsYDRxib2JAenEzcS5vcmcACgkQCWEfBPQUe8bdURAAxsko
NFjMEakBCJTNBon4Szz6REoILtazILwjx7ePyuwwLLyf+3gRTej9HvuIqhcoXx7R
dX9b/OFrNfjEpHqBDjRH3B2Dt6LxYX/Qdt4RnBTUaOaWQGzFbBQiNLY9sXDQ6WZc
YvC2Fp8FT6TnYrbOqVc6/bqgepd7bwbWcSO5RRc8UchuLV+4Jowr8n/bX5AQWdhv
aXNk5nedBclcvuqb7SyBvs5y8WhafyswMjo4yus0pmaOc7niyH5yf9hF7zKcodEH
optVPnDPuflRZ00gYFhKhZTg/T3pG2KeER/eRGQ0LXIEUrxETAUg1tQiqCsKaoGW
h79TybWC0CXVVwyWnvZZIUJouqZfx0px1N+Dfn9MLCEaroQnxWscXXPmt2QYwjrw
pxYAMKPStrupqbX4NdJOV9KJbKipNnMMWvcHgmRC6ygDM9U3IQJ4iMoHL6biMo8G
lJuJ/e9mxxNmimK7q97a+Bz+H3LC3fWpRrwLJd9pymPDXCgvUwvv/v/UC2J4KOJJ
GQf2AmdxRNnuDIkISMQFbT5MhaVM1M21ZF6TCsw+P/9welIETsti5Cd1wtF0g/sm
aNlmPpnTCRKM1te8+iJzJhfY9iNOKHVFF6coNUS4Ikc1Y0RLwaBRscbTf1+TQbaH
oZheyGheW/bHFeBaxED8C9+coBrJaXZgkxGEwIQ=
=uoLj
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
# 14:29:28 Thu 170601 ~
# bob@epjdn $ echo Hi 1 2 3.|gpg2 --clearsign 2>/dev/null |gpg2 --verify
gpg: Signature made Thu 01 Jun 2017 02:29:34 PM CDT
gpg: using RSA key 0x09611F04F4147BC6
gpg: Good signature from "Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>" [ultimate]
Primary key fingerprint: B123 D2BF C40A F813 3B69 77C3 4287 4D18 E36E C84D
Subkey fingerprint: CDD9 E4DE 942B 1118 541C 4ACA 0961 1F04 F414 7BC6
# 14:29:35 Thu 170601 ~
# bob@epjdn $ echo Hi 1 2 3.|gpg2 --clearsign |mailx -s "Clear signed msg" alice@zq3q.org
gpg: using "bob@zq3q.org" as default secret key for signing
--SNIP/switch to alice:
# 14:31:30 Thu 170601 ~
# alice@epjdn $ scan last
6 06/01 14:30-05 bob Clear signed msg<<-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi 1 2 3. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIqBAEBCAAUBQJZMGtjDRxib2JAenEzcS5vcmcA
# 14:31:37 Thu 170601 ~
# alice@epjdn $ gpg2 --verify < /a/alice/Mail/inbox/6
gpg: Signature made Thu 01 Jun 2017 02:30:43 PM CDT
gpg: using RSA key 0x09611F04F4147BC6
gpg: Good signature from "Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>" [full]
Primary key fingerprint: B123 D2BF C40A F813 3B69 77C3 4287 4D18 E36E C84D
Subkey fingerprint: CDD9 E4DE 942B 1118 541C 4ACA 0961 1F04 F414 7BC6
sign, encrypt and email
# 14:30:44 Thu 170601 ~
# bob@epjdn $ echo Hi 1 2 3|gpg2 --encrypt --sign --armor --recipient alice|mail -s 'secret00' alice@zq3q.org
gpg: using "bob@zq3q.org" as default secret key for signing
--SNIP/switch to alice:
# 14:31:44 Thu 170601 ~
# alice@epjdn $ scan last
7 06/01 18:55-05 bob secret00<<-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- hQIMAwIrcjI8iBxJARAAoAuzpIvzbfT7GaG+up0aqSdFYBB5Nkobwb4xM37sEsTm gq9amtP1RLp8ALpEcmE/d8j0b5wNmK7Qi5vB+bhN59z
inbox has mail
# 18:56:33 Thu 170601 ~
# alice@epjdn $ gpg2 --decrypt < /a/alice/Mail/inbox/7
gpg: encrypted with 4096-bit RSA key, ID 0x022B72323C881C49, created 2017-05-31
"Alice Terminello <alice@zq3q.org>"
Hi 1 2 3
gpg: Signature made Thu 01 Jun 2017 06:55:06 PM CDT
gpg: using RSA key 0x09611F04F4147BC6
gpg: Good signature from "Bob Covert <bob@zq3q.org>" [full]
Primary key fingerprint: B123 D2BF C40A F813 3B69 77C3 4287 4D18 E36E C84D
Subkey fingerprint: CDD9 E4DE 942B 1118 541C 4ACA 0961 1F04 F414 7BC6Jeffery Blankfort - Senior pro-Palestinian interviewer/activist Intro
http://www.politicalresearch.org/campus-profile-jeffrey-blankfort/
Jeffrey Blankfort is a self-styled Middle East analyst who freelances in print and radio. He writes frequently and is an occasional radio host on community radio station KZYX in Mendocino, California, and on KPFA, the Pacifica flagship station serving the San Francisco Bay area. Blankfort earned a modest reputation in the sixties as a photojournalist active in the anti-Vietnam War movement and as a supporter of the Black Panther Party. Raised in a non-Zionist Jewish family, he has been a militant anti-Zionist and pro-Palestinian activist since 1970, when he visited Jordan and Lebanon. In 1987 he co-founded the Labor Committee on the Middle East and served as editor of the quarterly publication Middle East Labor Bulletin from 1988-95.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jeffrey_Blankfort
Blankfort’s “Takes on the World” podcast RSS feed
Jeffery Blankfort - Senior activist/KZYX-KZYZ radio journalist
- Skip in 14min for Blankfort
3 ‘red line’ diffs between Israel and JFK
Diana Johnstone Intro
This interview about the Apr 2017 French Election with Jeffery Blankfort introduced me to American Expat / Paris European Politics writer Johnstone. @04m08s: Macron was productised and marketed by “globalized elite and deep state” in “an all out add campaign”.
France: Another Ghastly Presidential Election Campaign; the Deep State Rises to the Surface
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Johnstone
http://www.lausti.com/articles/johnstonecont.html
https://riseuptimes.org/tag/diana-johnstone/
http://www.merip.org/author/diana-johnstone
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/89920
https://www.amazon.com/Queen-Chaos-Misadventures-Hillary-Clinton/dp/0989763765
http://www.voltairenet.org/auteur4384.html?lang=en
https://www.abebooks.com/POLITICS-EUROMISSILES-EUROPES-ROLE-AMERICAS-WORLD/1066047377/bd
Diana Johnstone podcasts as of 5/19/17
On Fri 19 May 2017 , I retroactively searched my logs for Johnstone podcasts, most of which I still have to listen to:
http://ckuw.ca/128/20170519.13.00-14.00.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/anonymous@radio4all.net/16-1-DianaJohnstoneonFrenchElection.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/jblankfort@earthlink.net/1752-1-totw111115johnstoneinterview.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/jblankfort@earthlink.net/1752-1-totw051717johnstone_interview.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/anonymous@radio4all.net/16-1-DianaJohnstoneonFrenchElection.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/jblankfort@earthlink.net/1752-1-totw111115johnstoneinterview.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/jblankfort@earthlink.net/1752-1-totw021115johnstoneinterview.mp3
<http://ericdraitser.podbean.com/mf/feed/xdfazb/Diana_Johnstone_09-03-12.mp3
tips for brain and memory health
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/memory-loss-associated-with-alzheimers-reversed-for-first-time
- eliminating all simple carbohydrates, gluten and processed food from her diet, and eating more vegetables, fruits and non-farmed fish
- meditating twice a day and beginning yoga to reduce stress
- sleeping seven to eight hours per night, up from four to five
- taking melatonin, methylcobalamin, vitamin D3, fish oil and coenzyme Q10 each day
- optimizing oral hygiene using an electric flosser and electric toothbrush
- reinstating hormone replacement therapy, which had previously been discontinued
- fasting for a minimum of 12 hours between dinner and breakfast, and for a minimum of three hours between dinner and bedtime
- exercising for a minimum of 30 minutes, four to six days per week
5/18/2017 Commonwealth Club Lecture
http://www.buckinstitute.org/buck-news/Memory-loss-associated-with-Alzheimers-reversed
http://mariashriver.com/blog/2016/09/alzheimers-prevention-dale-bredesen-maria-shriver/
Dr. Dale Bredesen Intro
http://www.eastonad.ucla.edu/about-us/faculty-and-staff/item/bredesen-dale-e-md
methylcobalamin or B12
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylcobalamin
http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/methylcobalamin-4-facts-everyone-know/
Hamilton, Ontario CA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton,_Ontario
Zoomed out: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=8/43.131/-83.606
Zoomed in:
- https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=10/43.2157/-79.7731
- https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/43.2668/-79.8641
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMaster_University
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk_College
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Hamilton,_Ontario
radio
McMaster University CFMU http://cfmu.ca/about
CFMU started out as McMaster Radio in 1963 and was run by the BSB (Board of Student Broadcasting.) The studios were in the basement of Wentworth House and as Bruce Beghamer ’67 recalls, ’We originally piped broadcasting to the residences. It was quite the adventure back then. We had a very small budget from the MSU, but we had huge heart and enthusiasm from our radio members.’
sydney.edu.au Prof Tim Anderson Intro
https://sydney.edu.au/arts/political_economy/staff/profiles/t.anderson.php
Dr Tim Anderson +61 2 9351 4783
Department of Political Economy
Email: T.Anderson -at- sydney.edu.au
BA(Econ) Murdoch PhD Macquarie
Senior Lecturer
H04 - Merewether Building
The University of Sydney
http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/tim-anderson
https://twitter.com/timand2037?lang=en
The Dirty War on Syria: Professor Anderson Reveals the “Unspoken Truth”
Unusual Sources PodCast
http://www.hamiltoncoalitiontostopthewar.ca/Radio.htm
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/series/Unusual+Sources
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/92388
local activist Brendan Stone Intro
https://zeroanthropology.net/brendan-stone/
Brendan Stone is a graduate student at York University in Toronto, and an activist in Hamilton, Ontario.
He became involved in anti-war activism after taking part in the movements that coalesced against NATO’s war on Yugoslavia in 1999, and the build-up to war in Iraq in 2003. Since that time, he has drawn inspiration from the Haitian people’s grassroots resistance to neo-liberal colonialism, and the popular politics emerging in South America.
Short Head/shoulders video of Brendan
http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/author/brendan-stone
Email implied by Unusual Sources dowload URLs: BrendanStone -at- cogeco.ca
York University in Toronto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_University
http://www.yorku.ca/index.html
Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) Intro ; www.globalresearch.ca
http://www.globalresearch.ca/about
Since September 2001, we have established an extensive archive of news articles, in-depth reports and analysis on issues which are barely covered by the mainstream media.
In an era of media disinformation, our focus has essentially been to center on the “unspoken truth”.
During the invasion of Iraq (March-April 2003), Global Research published, on a daily basis, independent reports from the Middle East, which provided an alternative to the news emanating from the “embedded” journalists reporting from the war theater.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Chossudovsky#Centre_for_Research_on_Globalization
Michel Chossudovsky Intro
https://www.globalresearch.ca/michel-chossudovsky-biographical-summary/5580999
My wikipedia entry is subject to a routine almost daily wave of wiki-smear and disinformation.
Here is a Biographical summary
Michel Chossudovsky is an award-winning author, Professor of Economics (emeritus) at the University of Ottawa, Founder and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), Montreal, Editor of Global Research. He has taught as visiting professor in Western Europe, Southeast Asia, the Pacific and Latin America.
He has undertaken field research in Latin America, China, Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa and has written extensively on the economies of developing countries with a focus on poverty and social inequality.
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Michel_Chossudovsky
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Michel_Chossudovsky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Chossudovsky
University of Ottawa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Ottawa
Zoomed in: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/45.4219/-75.6876
Zoomed out: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=7/45.155/-79.541
Ottawa (Ontario CA) overview
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Ottawa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa#Geography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_River#Geography
Zoomed in: <https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=11/45.4194/-75.7871?
Zoomed out: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=7/45.155/-79.541
Dave Winer Intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Winer
https://twitrss.me/twitter_user_to_rss/?user=davewiner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_podcasting
Prof Henry A Giroux Intro
https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/people/giroux-henry
Professor, Department of English & Cultural Studies
Faculty of Social Sciences
McMaster University
Kenneth Taylor Hall Rm. 129
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
L8S 4M4
His primary research areas are: cultural studies, youth studies, critical pedagogy, popular culture, media studies, social theory, and the politics of higher and public education. He is particularly interested in what he calls the war on youth, the corporatization of higher education, the politics of neoliberalism, the assault on civic literacy and the collapse of public memory, public pedagogy, the educative nature of politics, and the rise of various youth movements across the globe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Giroux
http://www.salon.com/writer/henry-giroux/
example talks
Project censored interview. Social Contract in jeopardy; cruelty/ large chunks of populous now “disposable”: https://archives.kpfa.org/data/20170721-Fri1300.mp3
Where is the Outrage? Critical Pedagogy in Dark Times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAxj87RRtsc
Gary Null Intro
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-null-6a969191/
http://prn.fm/about/gary-null/
Look for a sub link to a text box “email form”.
https://twitter.com/drgarynull
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Null
https://thegarynullshow.podbean.com/
- podcatcher feed as of Thu 25 May 2017: https://thegarynullshow.podbean.com/feed/
Dr. Gary Null
An internationally renowned expert in the field of health and nutrition, Gary Null, Ph.D is the author of over 70 best-selling books on healthy living and the director of over 100 critically acclaimed full-feature documentary films on natural health, self-empowerment and the environment. He is the host of ’The Progressive Commentary Hour” and “The Gary Null Show”, the country’s longest running nationally syndicated health radio talk show which can be heard daily on here on the Progressive Radio Network.
Throughout his career, Gary Null has made hundreds of radio and television broadcasts throughout the country as an environmentalist, consumer advocate, investigative reporter and nutrition educator. More than 28 different Gary Null television specials have appeared on PBS stations throughout the nation, inspiring and motivating millions of viewers. He originated and completed more than one hundred major investigations on health issues resulting in the use of material by 20/20 and 60 Minutes.
Tireless, has his own unique “take”; an interesting interview style - he asks 3 and up to 5 questions in one shot. Egotistical, eccentric, and driven - yes, but as far as I know he is principled, fair; puts effort into connecting with many types/classes of people.
He does a daily weekday (often a monologue) show that combines: review of current research on diet, health/exercise; and his take on politics/often foreign policy. One day per week he does “The Progressive Commentary Hour” ;usually intense 1:1 interview of a political expert.
Dr. Jack Dresser | PhD clinical psychology | intro
https://www.counterpunch.org/author/jacdres1132/
https://www.opednews.com/author/author45196.html
BA, Pomona College. Ph.D., clinical psychology. Army psychologist during VN War. Private practice 15 years, specializing in transactional analysis and family systems. Developed ego state psychodrama method. Developed numerous school-based prevention programs and first offender DUI diversion (designed for early intervention) programs in California and Oregon under county contracts and federal US Dept of Education grants. Alcohol harm reduction research under NIAAA (NIH) grants for c. 15 years. Designed web-based risk reduction training programs for commercial alcohol servers and university Greek organizations. Bi-weekly columnist two years for the Springfield News in Oregon before its demise at the hands of its national owner, Lee Enterprises (after 104 years). Opinion pieces have also been published by the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Eugene Register-Guard, Eugene Weekly, Counterpunch and Global Research. Current member, International Society of Political Psychology. Current national vice-chair, Veterans for Peace working group on Palestine and the Middle East. Current co-director, Al-Nakba Awareness Project focused on the Israeli dispossession and occupation of Palestine (see website).
- ( former or current? ) board member | Political Psychology Research, Inc.
http://www.politicalpsychologyresearch.com/AboutUs.htm
Jack Dresser, Ph.D., Research scientist. Dr. Dresser is a research psychologist with a large non-profit institute. He has deep concerns for national politics and supports the PPRI mission in its efforts to study public desires and promote better government for the people.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-dresser-29894335/ | may or may not be his
Work by or about Jack Dresser
Racism, Empire, and Survival | Jack Dresser’s KEPW show | Eugene OR
Jack’s weekly Radio show | RSS feed https://archive.kepw.org/getrss.php?id=racismempireandsurviv
https://kepw.org/kepw-show-archives/
Steve Lendman Intro
https://sjlendman.blogspot.com.tr/
As far as I know in 2021 Lendman no longer does an interview show, but he still blogs actively.
Stephen Lendman was born in 1934 in Boston, MA. In 1956, he received a BA from Harvard University. Two years of US Army service followed, then an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1960. After working seven years as a marketing research analyst, he joined the Lendman Group family business in 1967. He remained there until retiring at year end 1999. Writing on major world and national issues began in summer 2005. In early 2007, radio hosting followed. Lendman now hosts the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network three times weekly. Distinguished guests are featured. Listen live or achived. Major world and national issues are discussed. Lendman is a 2008 Project Censored winner and 2011 Mexican Journalists Club international journalism award recipient.
http://www.4thmedia.org/category/opinion/stephen-lendman/
I was born in 1934, am a retired, progressive small businessman concerned about all the major national and world issues, committed to speak out and write about them. Stephen Lendman is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization. He lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to the Lendman News Hour on RepublicBroadcasting.org Monday - Friday at 10AM US Central time for cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on world and national issues. All programs are archived for easy listening. http://republicbroadcasting.org/Lendman
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Stephen_Lendman
https://www.facebook.com/stephen.lendman.7
http://prn.fm/tag/stephen-lendman/
https://twitter.com/stephenlendman?lang=en But he does not tweet.
Progressive Radio Network (PRN)
STUB/TODO
audio shows with out RSS feeds
The Grass is Greener: Babette Grunow and Gary Grass
http://www.riverwestradio.com/episode/the-grass-is-greener-0415-surprise-guest/
Local Milwaukee show, Saturdays @ 8 pm.
Weekly discussions between your hosts, local attorney Gary Grass and activist Babette Grunow, and our guests, concerning current topics interesting to us: criminal justice, human rights, labor, the environment, or whatever.
WI Pirate Pty, Joseph Thomas Klein
http://www.riverwestradio.com/show/bosun-hour/
p2p /global commons intro/ FLOK (Free Libre Open source Knowledge)
https://welcome.p2pfoundation.net/#about
free libre open knowledge FLOK
http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/FLOK_Society_Project
http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Main_Page
http://www.bollier.org/blog/ecuador-freelibre-open-knowledge-project-seeks-your-help
http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/FLOK_Society_Project
households
http://www.onthecommons.org/household-commons
flok on reddit
tweet ideas/links – blog vim mark T
Latest first. Links and quotes to inspire tweets.
- https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/nv9w4v/Gary_111919.mp3
Skip in 26:21. Chris Hedges referenced/responded to by Gary Null. rough quote:
only non violent rebellion can stop climate break down…
if we do not replace the ruling elite soon …”32:22 Gary Null responds ( long rant ) 48:30 Less than 10 years to save planet. 56:40 “We’re not going to have a mass uprising… we’re not in enough pain yet…”
34 point comparison Hillary Clinton vs Bernie Sanders
https://thegarynullshow.podbean.com/mf/play/6xceqa/GaryNull_052517.mp3 Skip in 29m22s.
Balfour letter;Israel History
https://www.globalresearch.ca/balfour-at-100-a-legacy-of-racism-and-propaganda/5614451
https://archives.kpfa.org/data/20200515-Fri1100.mp3
Balfour letter http://www.globalresearch.ca/balfours-shadow-a-century-of-british-support-for-zionism-and-israel/5597037
https://www.bookdepository.com/Balfours-Shadow-David-Cronin/9780745399430
1917 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration
Created 2 Nov 1917 Location British Library
Author(s) Walter Rothschild, Arthur Balfour, Leo Amery, Lord Milner Signatories Arthur James Balfour
Purpose Confirming support from the British government for the establishment in Palestine of a "national home" for the Jewish people, with two conditions
The Balfour Declaration was a British government public statement made during World War I, to announce their support for the establishment of a "national home" for the Jewish people in Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire. The declaration was contained in a letter dated 2 November 1917 from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Walter Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. The text of the declaration was published in the press on 9 November 1917.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-balfour-declaration-world-zionism-and-world-war-i/5616459
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48138.htm
https://archive.org/download/TWIP-171203-BalfourPanel2/format=VBR+MP3&ignore=x.mp3
Article from Al Jazeera, w/ 48 min video by Mohammed Salameh.
1948
http://www.radio4all.net/files/jblankfort@earthlink.net/1752-1-totwo524newsop.mp3 Skip in 03m08s.
Moslem Intro
Shia / Sunni world maps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shia_Islam#/media/File:Islam_by_country.png
Halford Mackinder Intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halford_Mackinder
The Geographical Pivot of History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geographical_Pivot_of_History
http://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/parameters/articles/00summer/fettweis.htm
real inflation / cost of living changes
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2017/05/cost-living-rising-elites-arent-worried-inflation.html
CELDF, communityrights.us, PCOLAD collection
I am inspired my this community rights legal/bottom up movement. I have been following it for years. Consider studying their work and volunteering for them.
This is an ongoing collection of links on CELDF.org, communityrights.us, and POCLAD. Some of the key people/founders in this bottom up legal movement are: Richard Grossman, Jane Anne Morris (Madison WI, died 2019), Thomas Linsey, and Paul Cienfuegos.
http://www.radio4all.net/files/tuc@tucradio.org/44-2-jane_anne_morris_richard_grossman.mp3
key community rights quotes/principles
People are soverign over their government.
Corporate charters were far more dependent on public approval/control – 100 years of law changes in favor of corps has given corps more rights than individuals.
As historian Richard Grossman once declared, the bedrock functioning of all current economic systems requires control over Earth’s resources, and the labor necessary to extract them. For that purpose, those economic systems create centralized authorities that either control natural resources and labor themselves, or create the conditions for private entities to do so.
In the United States, our federal and state legal systems fall into the latter category—serving to protect, insulate and enhance the authority of private entities to run the show.
This is why ecosystems and nature are considered “property” in the eyes of the law. […] They begin changing it by seizing their municipal governments to free themselves from a number of controlling legal doctrines of the past. These include: corporate constitutional “rights” that guarantee that corporate decisions override community decision-making; the authority of state government and the federal government to protect business entities by preempting the community from adopting laws that interfere with corporate proposals; and the legal doctrines that require the state government’s pre-approval for lawmaking by the community.
By forcing a recognition of their own right to govern themselves, and using that right to stop that which is harming them, people and communities seek to put capitalism in a box. It is a box in which projects that violate the rights of communities and nature are prohibited.
Jane Anne Morris
Paul Cienfuegos workshop May 6 2019
Paul gave a 3 hour presentation/workshop at the Social Justice Center in Madison last night, on “Protecting the Rights of People and Nature by Dismantling Corporate Rule”:
Paul calls people to order at about 50 sec mark.
Local ordinances can be drafted so that the prohibitions they contain are coupled/protected by “onion layers” – provided by a community bill of rights (embedded in each ordinance). Challenges to these must attack the community bill of rights. We’re up against 100+ years of corporate law, but the steps taken by https://CELDF.org have resulted in over 200 such ordinances since 1999 – most of these are still in place. It’s possible for local ordinances to survive in conflict/tension with state or federal law; the hope is they will support real local changes, and provide pressure for eventual change at the federal or state level.
http://communityrights.us/community-rights-ordinance-campaigns-across-the-us/ordinance-map/
http://communityrights.us/community-rights-ordinance-campaigns-across-the-us/
If you need another reason to consider running for office this could be it.
Paul Cienfuegos: absolute must listen, CELDF, listen twice to CienfuegosTHREE.mp3, and harvest some quotes for bumper stickers:
http://www.radio4all.net/files/tuc%40tucradio.org/44-2-CienfuegosTHREE.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/tuc%40tucradio.org/44-2-CienfuegosONEofFOUR.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/tuc%40tucradio.org/44-2-CienfuegosTWOofFOUR.mp3
CELDF democracy school
http://www.celdf.org/democracy-school-on-line
https://celdf.org/celdf-services/education/democracy-school/democracy-school-curriculum
TODO/explore: http://www.poclad.org/
Another must listen Tom Linzey of #CELDF/Democracy Schools (skip in 35:12):
http://www.radio4all.net/files/unwelcome%40radio4all.net/18-2-ug500-hour2mix.mp3
must listen on bottled water, rights for aquifers, CELDF, democracy schools:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioProjectFrontPagePodcast/~5/kdyls62-vho/3915-1-tapped.mp3
CELDF/Maine ground water:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioProjectFrontPagePodcast/~5/BDmkPc4ykNc/3915-1-hayes.mp3
Ecuador Adopts New Constitution - With CELDF RIGHTS of NATURE Language:
http://www.celdf.org/Default.aspx?tabid=548
Power, Democracy and Deadly Law
http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/archive/ug408-hour2mix.mp3
(skip 11m00s into above for Tom Linsay “envision Spokane”)
Thomas Linsey Intro
https://celdf.org/about/board-staff/
Esq., Executive Director. Thomas is a co-founder of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund and serves as chief legal counsel.
Contact: info@celdf.org and 717-498-0054
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Thomas_Linzey
http://inthesetimes.com/community/profile/322191
https://www.unwelcomeguests.net/Thomas_Linzey
http://www.centerforneweconomics.org/people/thomas-linzey
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) – a nonprofit law firm that has provided free legal services to over five hundred local governments and nonprofit organizations since 1995.
sampling of articles/interviews of Thomas Linsey
https://resistanceradioprn.podbean.com/mf/play/y9txed/RR_101517.mp3
https://www.unwelcomeguests.net/Special:WhatLinksHere/Thomas_Linzey
https://celdf.org/2017/02/bioneers-2016-thomas-linzey-mari-margil-occupy-law/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BawGoQJ0Se8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClGvP3qFkZs
http://www.bioneers.org/how-to-legalize-sustainability-an-interview-with-thomas-linzey/
Paul Cienfuegos intro
http://paulcienfuegos.com/About-Me
https://twitter.com/cienfuegospaul
http://communityrights.us/about-paul-cienfuegos/
http://communityrights.us/staff/
https://www.facebook.com/PaulCienfuegos
by or about Paul Cienfuegos
https://www.alternativeradio.org/speaker/paul-cienfuegos/
intro to comm. rights - talk in Viroqua WI 5/30/2018
part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQGb4lreAo4
part 2 < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNeTalhmpfI >
part 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1YhHdr7GHs
part 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heV3ls2DWKc
part 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuQPssrNgco
Richard L Grossman intro | 1943 - 2011
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Grossman_(author)
https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/Richard_Grossman_%28author%29/
https://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/portraits/richard-grossman
https://progressive.org/dispatches/richard-grossman-corporate-dragon-slayer/
http://www.bollier.org/richard-grossman-remembered
Corporate personhood had its roots in an 1819 U.S. Supreme Court case, Dartmouth College v. Woodward, which declared that corporations are creatures of private contract law, not public law. It was later given a boost with a controversial headnote in an 1886 case, Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad case, which declared that corporations are “persons” in the constitutional sense, thus preventing government from regulating their rates.
Work by or about richard grossman
2006 must listen Richard Grossman CELDF: http://noliesradio.org/archives/econoTIWE2012%5F0121%5Fweb.mp3
must listen, 1996 speech by my hero (recently died) Richard Grossman:
http://www.radio4all.net/files/tuc%40tucradio.org/44-1-GT13%5FDismantling%5FTWO.mp3
from www.tucradio.org on Grossman:
Ralph Nader called him the ‘historian of corporations’ and a new, inspiring reading of history was his special gift. Richard said that the American revolution was fought less against the crown but against the crown corporations. And he believed that it’s time to remember that fight and assert sovereignty of the people over the corporate state and ask: Why should the many be governed by the few?” In the last 15 years he had been an important member of POCLAD, the Project on Corporations, Law and Democracy and CELDF, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. His lasting legacy are the Democracy Schools that continue to be taught across the country, and a pamphlet: Taking Care of Business describes the process of de-chartering corporations.
http://www.ratical.org/corporations/TCoB.html
http://tucradio.org/GrossmanActToCriminalize.html
must listen (covers Richard Grossman of CELDF):
Collection of Richard Grossman’s writing: https://ratical.org/corporations/RLG1943-2011.html
TalkingStickTV - Richard Grossman - Q&A from Challenging Corporations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqw1UIGUv4k
https://geo.coop/archives/DemSchools1104.htm
https://ratical.org/corporations/
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Controlling_Corporations/RichardGrossman_interview.html
familiarity: 2010 or before
John Raines intro
TODO/add/cleanup
He and is fellow team members exposed FBI project COINTELPRO.
Anand Gopal Intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anand_Gopal
Human Rights Watch
http://www.ngo-monitor.org/ngos/human_rights_watch_hrw_/
Human Rights Watch is a powerful NGO, with a massive budget, close links to Western governments, and significant influence in international institutions. Its publications reflect the absence of professional standards, research methodologies, and military and legal expertise, as well as a deep-seated ideological bias against Israel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Human_Rights_Watch
https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/03/14/the-bias-of-human-rights-watch/
http://observer.com/2016/06/human-rights-watch-and-amnesty-internationals-little-bias-problem/
when it comes to the Arab world’s conflict with Israel, the non-governmental behemoths whose public relations machines match that of the UN—Humans Rights Watch and Amnesty International—have a slant that is every bit as biased, and every bit as eye-rolling, as the UN’s. For years the two organizations could consistently distribute Israel’s sworn enemies’ version of the facts with complete impunity.
Susan Lindauer Intro
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Susan_Lindauer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Lindauer
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Susan_Lindauer
https://twitter.com/SLindauer2011
https://truthfrequencyradio.com/covertreport/
https://www.facebook.com/susan.lindauer.568
https://extremeprejudiceusa.wordpress.com/
http://www.wanttoknow.info/911/9-11_whistleblower_susan_lindauer
She sometimes speaks “ahead of herself”, and is a bit to the right of me. I’m impressed by her drive, her courage, and think on balance she is a force for good.
Work by or about Susan Lindauer
http://www.radio4all.net/files/cheryl@ct911truth.org/4212-1-SL_PART_2.mp3_2019REPLAY.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/cheryl@ct911truth.org/4212-1-SL_PART_3.2019.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/cheryl@ct911truth.org/4212-1-SL_PART_4_2019.mp3
Issa Amro Intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issa_Amro
Issa Amro Trial
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-palumboliu/israel-puts-celebrated-_b_13590812.html
https://www.ampalestine.org/projects/free-human-rights-defender-issa-amro
https://uscpr.org/issa-amro-free/
https://electronicintifada.net/tags/issa-amro
http://www.codepink.org/stand_with_issa
Palestinian Situation
1950 ‘Sands of Sorrow’ film on 750k arab refugees. posted on twitter by @jamesperloff
maps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Iraqi_insurgency_detailed_map
Syria maps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Syrian_Civil_War_detailed_map
Al-Tanf
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=33.487581&lon=38.661575&z=11&m=w
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.487581,38.661575,10.75z?hl=en
Raqqa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raqqa
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=36.071302&lon=38.424683&z=10&m=w
Abu Kamal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Kamal
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.453611,40.936667,12z?hl=en
Iraq maps
Mosel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosul
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=9/36.6739/43.9508
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/36.3567/43.1560
Ukraine
Donbass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Donbass_War_detailed_map
Baltics
Srebrenica
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre
Cryptome.org
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Cryptome
History of cryptome from archinect.com
John Young (Cryptome)
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/John_Young
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptome
positions or interests
No to CBDC
pro-choice
recognize and reject cancel culture
add the ERA to US const | Womens equal rights ammendment
resolve/reinvestigate assassinations: JRK; Malcom X; RFK; MLK; Wellstone; JFJ JR ...
reel in trangender excesses -- mandatory pronouns; child age drugs or operations
Antiwar.
end the FED; pass the NEED act
restore Medical practice to precovid norms
"move to amend"
Anti Empire/Imperialism.
Restore draft, and increase draft age.
Workers bill of rights.
Environmental bill of rights to clean air and water.
Unfence, unwall, rewild.
Same-day voter registration.
Election Day holiday.
Right to affordable higher education.
Man made climate chg.
Restore fairness doctrine.
Fed Gov: put 40 million back to work.
Environment.
Modern Money theory.
Public Banking.
Right to hold Mass/General Strike/Sympathy Strike.
Constitutional Amendment for "right to vote".
Setup (WI or your state) state public bank.
Break up top 10 banks.
Voter verifies paper receipt is correct & saved by voting machine.
Tax the rich, walk back tax cuts.
Walk back corp tax cuts.
Debt jubilees as needed.
End Fed Gov debt ceiling.
Forgive Student loans.
Stop residential foreclosures until depression ends.
Employee owned/run/democratic workplaces.
Cut Fossil Fuel Subsidies.
Increase Renewable Energy Subsidies.
No voter id.
Human rights.
Break up NSA/CIA/MOSAD/FBI/HOMELAND SEC.
Register/regulate APAC.
Leaders/leadership.
History.
No cell towers next to schools.
No wireless Internet in schools.
Guaranteed Minimum Income for All.
Medicare for All.
Rights for Ecosystems/Ecuador Constitution.
Pro FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software); GNU/Linux.
FLOK (Free Libre Open Source Knowledge).
OSEE (Open Source Everything Engineering) Open-Source Everything Manifesto.
#open-source-culture
Green Party.
Pirate Party.
Restore Glass Steagall.
Repeal 2013 NDAA Act.
Restore 1933 (NRLA) Wagner Act.
Lance deHaven-Smith: State Crimes Against Democracy.
Review/reveal Project Mockingbird.
Review/reveal Project Phoenix;The Phoenix Program.
Review/reveal Project Gladio.
Review/reveal Project MK-Ultra.
Review/reveal Project Condor.
Anti 'Right to Work' (for less).
Repeal Patriot Acts.
Reinvestigate 911.
Prosecute Neocons for Iraq War.
Follow Geneva Convention.
No Torture.
Israel BDS.
Anti DRM.
5 Trillion Dollar USA Infrastructure Restoration Project.
Stop/prevent drone surveillance.
Stop Internet surveillance.
Paper ballots, no blackbox voting.
Repeal Commissions Act of 2006.
Open source voting software.
Ban some, otherwise strongly regulate derivatives.
1% Wall Street Sales Tax.
100 year zero interest "infra structure project" Fed loans to states.
Rank choice voting.
Gerrymander reform.
Dirgism.
Net neutrality.
Anti-DRM.
Pro choice.
Pro FLOSS/Copyleft.
Reform Fed 'black budget'.
Reform SEC.
Nationalize FED.
Audit FED.
Anti privatization.
Pro public schools/anti privatization.
Anti Chicago-School-of-econ.
Anti NEOCON.
Anti NEOLIB.
Anti Leo Straus.
Anti Hayek.
Anti Mosanto/GMO.
Protect public parks.
Protect public wildlife refuges.
Stop all fossil fuel harvesting.
End gov subsidies to fossil fuel industry.
Wind and Solar.
Increase corporate taxes.
Tax the rich.
Currency sovereignty.
Government owned central bank.
Save the Boreal Forest.
Stop Irresponsible Old Growth Forestry.
Pro open currency.
Pro social contractual block chain currencies.
Community Control of Local Police.
Stop Militarization of Police.
Police Accountability.
10 Million new trees per state per?
Pro electric car.
Pro mass transit.
Protect public water systems.
Anti software patents.
Pro organic.
Pro "move to amend".
End nuclear power.
Cut defense spending.
Stop arms sales to Saudis.
Pro Union.
Pro organic foods.
Cut Israel support by 2/3s.
Revoke corporate charters as needed and it's needed!.
Pro coop, worker run, 1 employee 1 vote.
Walk back US empire.
Dismantle Homeland Security.
Breakup media monopolies.
Limits to growth;The DeGrowth Paradigm.
Subsidize a free press.
Close 60% of US military bases.
Hands off:
Syria,
Iran,
Iraq,
Venezuela,
Balkans,
md_dnl Baltics,
Afghanistan,
Ukraine,
Crimea,
Russia,
Yemen,
Bolivia,
Honduras,
Nicaragua,
Congo
.
Wayne Madsen intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Madsen
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Wayne_Madsen
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wayne_Madsen
http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=wayne_madsen_1
https://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-keywords=Wayne%20Madsen
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
https://www.facebook.com/WayneMadsenReport/
books http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?author=117
Leo Strauss Intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Strauss
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Leo_Strauss
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Leo_Strauss
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Neoconservatism
Safari Club
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Safari_Club
http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=safari_club_1
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Safari_Club
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_Club
http://anonhq.com/deep-state-safari-club-cabal/
Leaders
Reporters, leaders, historians, scientists … Mostly forces for good; some for destruction. No particular order.
Michel Chossudovsky Intro
William K. Black Intro
Robert Parry Intro
Kevin Barrett Intro
Don Debar CPR intro
Micky Huff
Peter Hudis Intro
Steve Lendman Intro
Ellen Brown Intro
John Young (Cryptome)
Wayne Madsen intro
Leo Strauss Intro
Stephanie Kelton Intro
Michael Hudson Intro
MMT Economist L. Randall Wray intro
Stephen Gowans intro
Vanessa Beely Intro
Tulsi Gabbard Intro
Tony Gosling Intro
Ray McGovern
Susan Lindauer Intro
Dr Jordan B Peterson Intro
James Livingston Intro (Rutgers)
Gary Null Intro
Warren Mosler intro
Thomas Linsey Intro
Prof Henry A Giroux Intro
Guy R McPherson Intro
Gareth Porter intro
Jim Garrison Intro
James Burnham Intro
Abby Martin Intro
Albert Wohlstetter Intro
Jeffery Blankfort - Senior pro-Palestinian interviewer/activist Intro
Diana Johnstone Intro
sydney.edu.au Prof Tim Anderson Intro
local activist Brendan Stone Intro
Cheryl Curtis 911 Researcher Intro
Assata Shakur
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assata_Shakur
http://www.assatashakur.org/essence.htm
http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2017/06/17/assata-shakur-oppmann-pkg.cnn
WWP Workers World Party
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers_World_Party
http://www.keywiki.org/Workers_World_Party
http://www.workers.org/author/workers-world-milwaukee-bureau/
Milwaukee WWP
Bryan T Pfeiffer is a dynamic speaker who spoke at MCAT demonstration in Jun 2017. He appears to be a regular writer for www.workers.org
Jordon B Peterson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson
https://www.youtube.com/user/JordanPetersonVideos
https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson
FSRO Freedom Road Socialist Organization
http://www.fightbacknews.org/
https://freedomroad.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Road_Socialist_Organization
https://www.facebook.com/frsooscl/
https://twitter.com/freedomroadSO
http://maoist.wikia.com/wiki/Freedom_Road_Socialist_Organization
http://keywiki.org/Freedom_Road_Socialist_Organization/
ARE THERE REALLY TWO GROUPS USING THE FRSO NAME?
Unfortunately, yes.
In 1999 a section of the organization based in Chicago and Minneapolis split off. The overwhelming majority of comrades of color and most of the overall membership, the National Executive Committee and the local branches (which we call districts) stayed with the organization. Yet those who left chose to keep the name Freedom Road Socialist Organization. It is a good name.
by or about FRSO
Shawn ?? (in his 20s or 30s?) of FSRO spoke and mceed at the June 2017 MCAT event.
2015 FBI raid of antiwar frso http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=52421
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/av4358/how-the-fbi-goes-after-activists
DSA Democratic Socialists of America
https://twitter.com/DemSocialists
Milwaukee DSA
https://twitter.com/MilwaukeeDSA
https://www.facebook.com/DSAMKE/
Meetings - are they twice per month, on a weeknight? Watch: https://www.facebook.com/pg/DSAMKE/events/?ref=page_internal.
Typical meeting location: LAMA Clubhouse at 1535 W Mitchell St.
http://www.dsausa.org/chapters
Overview of Milwaukee Socialist Groups/Leaders
WWP Workers World Party
FSRO Freedom Road Socialist Organization
Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba
MKE’s Art Heizer
http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/ArtHeitzer/HomePage
http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/ArtHeitzer/ArtsTenTipsToLiveBy
James Godsil’s Milwaukee Renaissance Wiki
http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/Godsil/HomePage
MKE RR worker WWP writer, Steve Millies Intro
- Steve Millies is a railway worker and Workers World Party writer.
Milwaukee Rebellion vs Racism. Talk by Steve Millies Sep 2, 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C34CAviMsHk&list=ULxZ0tWpE7LRU&index=175
https://calebmaupin.blogspot.com/2011/11/steve-millies-war-against-black-workers.html
In 1974, there were 424 strikes involving at least a thousand workers. Thirty-five years later, in 2009, there were just five of these strikes in a country with over 300 million people.
Amtrak Tragedy & the war against railroad workers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlfvhLWJ9xs
Russell “Texas” Bentley (Donbass Region of SE Ukraine) Intro
http://www.russelltexasbentley.com/p/about.html
His ‘Russell Bentley’ youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrISPAa6ZCgbDr4OFEsInBA
email: russellbbentley -at- gmail -dot- com
https://medium.com/dfrlab/a-serb-a-texan-and-a-colombian-walk-into-a-war-9a0389dda2ba
http://www.greanvillepost.com/category/columns/texac/
http://iacenter.org/5066/u-s-vet-fights-for-donetsk-peoples-republic/
https://truthfrequencyradio.com/luckee-with-truth-frequency-news-70238/
https://archive.org/download/TheCovertReportWithSusanLindauer2017.06.24/format=VBR+MP3&ignore=x.mp3
http://eu.eot.su/2016/04/05/war-diary-by-russell-bentley-texas-the-start-of-2016/
David Bollier Intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bollier
Dave Lindorff intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Lindorff
http://thiscantbehappening.net/lindorff
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dave_Lindorff
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-lindorff-18a6b64
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/author/dave-lindorff
selected or collected work by Dave Lindorff
https://www.counterpunch.org/author/dl/
https://fair.org/author/dave-lindorff/
https://www.commondreams.org/author/dave-lindorff
https://www.salon.com/writer/dave_lindorff
https://www.thenation.com/authors/dave-lindorff/
http://thiscantbehappening.net/node/3688
Gerald Sussman | Portland State Univ intro
https://www.pdx.edu/intl/profile/meet-professor-gerald-sussman
Work by or about Gerald Sussman
https://www.counterpunch.org/author/gersuss9009/
Gerald Sussman is professor of urban studies and international and global studies at Portland State University.
https://works.bepress.com/gerald-sussman/
https://www.amazon.com/Propaganda-Society-Promotional-Frontiers-Communication/dp/1433109964
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/07/13/the-russiagate-spectacle-season-2/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/09/americas-troll-farm-media/
https://www.bookdepository.com/Branding-Democracy-Gerald-Sussman/9781433105302
Elinor Ostrom Intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2009/ostrom-bio.html
works and collections by Elinor Ostrom
http://www.radio4all.net/files/tuc@tucradio.org/44-1-renegade_five-elinor-ostrom_nobel.mp3
http://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/elinor-ostroms-8-principles-managing-commmons
http://evonomics.com/tragedy-of-the-commons-elinor-ostrom/
Rick Sterling Intro
Covers Syria conflict.
Email: rsterling1 -at- gmail.com
http://www.syriasolidaritymovement.org/about/steering-committee/
Rick Sterling is a retired electronics / aerospace engineer. He has supported struggles against imperialism and for justice in Africa, Latin America and the Middle East since the early 1970′s and is currently on the boards of Mt Diablo Peace Center in Walnut Creek and the Task Force on the Americas in Marin.
http://theduran.com/author/rick-sterling/
https://consortiumnews.com/tag/rick-sterling/
https://www.commondreams.org/author/rick-sterling
https://orientalreview.org/author/rs/
In 2018 Rick has been a guest on ‘Loud and Clear’|Sputnik News.
By or about Rick Sterling
Interview in Mar 2018: http://www.radio4all.net/files/anonymous@radio4all.net/16-1-TerroristsProlongGhoutaAgony.mp3
https://dissidentvoice.org/2016/05/about-bias-and-propaganda-on-syria/
https://dissidentvoice.org/search/?q=Rick+Sterling+&sa=Search
https://www.globalresearch.ca/author/rick-sterling
Investigative historian Eric Zuesse Intro
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Eric_Zuesse
https://twitter.com/ericzuesse?lang=en
As of Wed 05 Jul 2017, I did a through search for Eric Zuesse. He is 60+, prolific, and widely published, but not much in the way of bio info on him.
where his articles get posted
http://rinf.com/alt-news/author/Eric-Zuesse/
http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/eric-zuesse
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/author/eric-zuesse/
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/author/eric-zuesse-2
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/eric-zuesse
http://russia-insider.com/en/eric_zuesse
https://www.strategic-culture.org/authors/eric-zuesse.html
https://www.commondreams.org/author/eric-zuesse
https://www.dailykos.com/blog/Eric%20Zuesse
http://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/
https://off-guardian.org/tag/eric-zuesse/
https://www.alternet.org/authors/eric-zuesse
https://thesaker.is/tag/eric-zuesse/
work examples
on Sy Hersh marginalization http://rinf.com/alt-news/newswire/american-samizdat/
https://www.amazon.com/Eric-Zuesse/e/B001KC9V7U/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2017/06/interesting-alternative-view-u-s-foreign-policies.html
MH17 Investigation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcdBGTl_VVg
search for his books on amazon
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Eric+Zuesse
Sami Ramadani
https://twitter.com/SamiRamadani1
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/samiramadani
Sami Ramadani is an Iraqi-born lecturer in sociology and writes on Iraq and Middle East current affairs. He was a political exile from Saddam’s regime but campaigned against US-led sanctions and the invasion and occupation of Iraq. He is a member of the steering committee of Stop the War Coalition.
Work by or about Sami Ramadani
https://www.redpepper.org.uk/by/sami-ramadani/
https://www.commondreams.org/author/sami-ramadani
https://www.democracynow.org/appearances/sami_ramadani
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/apr/09/iraq.comment
familiarity: since Mon 20 Jan 2020
Nolan Higdon intro
Nolan Higdon is a professor of English, Communication, and History of the US and Latin America. He is a co host of the Project Censored Radio Show.
Nolan Higdon is a professor of English, Communication, and History of the US and Latin America in the San Francisco Bay Area. His academic work focuses on nationalism, propaganda, and critical media literacy education. He sits on the boards of the Media Freedom Foundation, Sacred Heart University’s Media Literacy and Digital Culture Graduate Program, the Union for Democratic Communications Steering Committee, and the Northwest Alliance For Alternative Media And Education. Higdon is ta co-founder for the Global Critical Media Literacy Project. He has contributed chapters to Censored 2013-2017 as well as Stephen Lendman’s Ukraine: How the US Drive for Hegemony Risks World War III (2014). He has published articles on media and propaganda including “Disinfo Wars: Alex Jones War on Your Mind (2013),” “Millennial Media Revolution (2014),” and “Justice For Sale (2015).” He has been a guest on national radio and television programs.
articles by Nolan Higdon
https://thoughtcatalog.com/nolan-higdon/
http://csueastbay.academia.edu/NolanHigdon
FED as effectively private institution
Jack Rasmus alternativevisions AV_062317.mp3
http://alternativevisions.podbean.com/mf/feed/uuxwtj/AV_062317.mp3
Most credible overview I have heard. Technically, yes there is some federal government or citizen reps running the FED, but they have as a rule been cooped by banking. The FED is a corporation.
Start listening at 8m10s.
simplicity/productivity of plain text files
“Always bet on text.” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8451271
Plain text is a non proprietary “lowest common denominator”. It is readable and writable by almost every word processor, and by definition all text editors. It’s a building block/foundation for most computer code. Plain text email is still common and useful. Plain text is universal/portable/compatible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_text
http://www.linfo.org/plain_text.html
https://simplystatistics.org/2017/06/13/the-future-of-education-is-plain-text/
http://wiki.c2.com/?PowerOfPlainText
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_Ribbon_Campaign
Plain text is also known as ‘text file’ or ‘flat file’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_file
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
https://blog.logrocket.com/the-easiest-way-to-keep-your-web-apps-accessible-c2b57506cc2a
https://lifehacker.com/i-still-use-plain-text-for-everything-and-i-love-it-1758380840
http://plaintext-productivity.net/
http://becomeawritertoday.com/plain-text/
https://ulyssesapp.com/blog/2015/06/plain-text-productivity/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_TRXADc1Qc
ASCII Ribbon Campaign http://arc.pasp.de/
https://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com/posts/a-love-letter-to-plain-text/
Ray McGovern Intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_McGovern
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Ray_McGovern
http://keywiki.org/Ray_McGovern
Articles of talks by Ray McGovern
Ray McGovern Spring 2016
Rumsfield complaining about protest signs claiming GW Bush a war criminal. His silent/peaceful protest at Hilary speech that lead to him being forcibly carried away ; to bleeding wrists in handcuffs.
And three weeks before the putsch in Kiev, U.S. State Department planning to orchestrate the removal of the Ukraine’s duly elected President Viktor Yanukovych and select new leaders for Ukraine was placed chapter and verse on YouTube in the form of a four-minute intercepted telephone conversation between Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland and the yes-ma’am U.S. Ambassador in Kiev, Geoffrey Pyatt.
Kiev’s Maidan Revolution: Victoria Nuland’s Coup to Bring Ukraine into NATO by Ray McGovern
Thu 14 Apr 2011
video Ray McGovern Speaks Out on Bradley Manning Torture the Constitution and War
Fri 04 Mar 2011
Ray McGovern interview after he was beat up…:
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/The-Michael-Slate-Show-3-02-11.mp3
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/18/ex%5Fcia%5Fanalyst%5Fray%5Fmcgovern%5Fbeaten
Sat 21 Aug 2010
Ray McGovern:
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/podpress%5Ftrac/web/2173/0/BF.0031.McGovern%5F20100818.mp3
Wed 30 Sep 2009
Ray McGovern (skip in 8m):
http://www.radio4all.net/files/bluebarnnewscentral%40gmail.com/3302-1-show_674297.mp3
Wed 26 Aug 2009
Ray McGovern on FOI torture report (~5:30):
http://www.radio4all.net/files/betweenthelines@snet.net/127-1-btl090409.mp3
smoking gun: George W Bush executive memo Feb 7 2002; 2/7/2002; 2/7/02
Sat 14 Mar 2009
Ray McGovern must listen (twice would be good):
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioProjectFrontPagePodcast/~5/LLSJWI4Haro/218-1-030709cf.mp3
Wed 29 Oct 2008
Ray McGovern on impeachment and War crimes; supporting Cindy Sheehan (skip 16m30s in):
http://aud1.kpfa.org/data/20081028-Tue1700.mp3
Michio Kaku Intro
https://www.aps.org/careers/physicists/profiles/kaku.cfm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michio_Kaku
https://www.facebook.com/michiokaku/
Stephen F Cohen Intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_F._Cohen
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Stephen_F._Cohen
https://everipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_F._Cohen/
https://www.princeton.edu/politics/people/display_person.xml?netid=stcohen
Stephen Frand Cohen is an American scholar of Russian studies. His academic work concentrates on developments in Russia since the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and the country’s relationship with the United States.Cohen, who received his Ph.D. in government and Russian studies at Columbia University, became a professor of politics and Russian studies at Princeton University in 1968, where he taught until 1998.Since 1998, Cohen has been professor of Russian Studies and History at New York University, where he teaches a course titled Russia Since 1917. He has written several books, including, Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History Since 1917; Sovieticus: American and Soviet Realities; Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938; and most recently, Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia. He is also a CBS News consultant as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
http://jordanrussiacenter.org/author/scohen/
By or about Stephen F Cohen.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Is-This-Professor-Putin-s/241777
https://www.thenation.com/authors/stephen-f-cohen/
https://russia-insider.com/en/stephen-cohen
Twitter search: https://twitrss.me/twitter_search_to_rss/?term=Stephen+F+Cohen
books: https://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n:283155,p_27:Stephen%20F.%20Cohen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BciYxlKfHH8
Commonwealth Club speech “The Ukrainian Crisis - It’s not All Putin’s Fault” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pUj3Vqptx8
Bashar al Assad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Bashar_al_Assad
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad
https://www.biography.com/people/bashar-al-assad-20878575
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bashar-al-Assad
Syrian presidential election, 2014
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_presidential_election,_2014
DAMASCUS: A delegation of parliamentarians from different countries, who were in Syria to observe the elections on Tuesday, has endorsed the country’s electoral process.
It said the elections were “free and fair” and held in a “democratic environment, contrary to Western propaganda”. The delegation held the US and its allies responsible for war crimes committed against the Syrian people. “We call upon these countries that support state sponsored terrorism to cease and desist from supplying material support in these efforts,” said the delegates in a statement The delegation includes lawmakers from countries, including Brazil, Uganda, Venezuela, Russia and Iran.
1963 Syrian coup d’état
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_Syrian_coup_d'état
Kristina Borjesson
Intense investigative reporter/journalist. I need to vet her a bit more. Have been listening to her since Mar 2019.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristina_Borjesson
https://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/portraits/kristina-borjesson
https://thewhistleblowernewsroom.podbean.com/
The Whistleblower Newsroom, a platform by whistleblowers, for whistleblowers and about whistleblowers with journalists Celia Farber, Kristina Borjesson and their whistleblowing guests Who stood up for the truth when others wouldn’t
Andrea Mérida Cuéllar
https://www.gp.org/andrea_merida_cuellar
http://facebook.com/andreaemerida
https://twitter.com/andreamerida
https://www.instagram.com/andreamerida303/
Work by or about Andrea Mérida Cuéllar
https://ballotpedia.org/Howie_Hawkins_presidential_campaign_staff,_2020
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/06/15/18787580.php
Stein, Cobb, Zeese, Mérida: https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/07/21/green-party-growing-pains-our-own-crisis-of-democracy/
familiarity: Aug 2020
Venezuela Collection of Notes
For our VZ cmte work I agreed to provide some links, quotes/snips on the current situation. I’m always trying to vet my sources, both the writers and the websites – but at this point “trusted short list” list; I that will take time. Today Tue 02 Apr 2019 I spent a couple of hours reviewing the DSA VZ national mailing list. I am not a member of the DSA, but they have a large membership, and it is interesting to watch them coordinate.
I did spend some time on VZ stats, and some links cite the CIA fact book. I will take a break for rest and feedback- Wed 03 Apr 2019.
VZ Stats
misc VZ stats
http://www.ciaworldfactbook.us/south-america/venezuela.html
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ve.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Venezuela
https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/profiles/Venezuela
comprehensive (31 December 2013) summary: https://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/venezuela_statistics.html
https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/profiles/Venezuela/Economy
Clickable year by year articles for last 20+ years: https://www.theodora.com/wfbcurrent/venezuela/index.html
2006-2016 life expectancy https://www.statista.com/statistics/974758/life-expectancy-at-birth-in-venezuela-by-gender/
What the Statistics Tell Us about Venezuela in the Chavez Era: https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/7513
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/oct/04/venezuela-hugo-chavez-election-data
http://www.unz.com/tsaker/saker-interview-with-michael-hudson-on-venezuela
https://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/03/06/venezuelas-economy-under-chavez-by-the-numbers/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/370918/gross-domestic-product-gdp-growth-rate-in-venezuela/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/370779/population-growth-in-venezuela/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/371895/inflation-rate-in-venezuela/
https://tradingeconomics.com/venezuela/gdp
https://tradingeconomics.com/venezuela/crude-oil-production
immigration
summary: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/country-resource/venezuela-bolivarian-republic
Net migration rate 2000-2017: https://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?c=ve&v=27
rank of 142 (negative 1.2) on Wed 03 Apr 2019: https://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?c=ve&v=27
net migration rate -1 person per 1000 in 2017 https://www.indexmundi.com/map/?v=27
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Venezuela
https://theconversation.com/4-charts-show-venezuelas-worsening-migrant-crisis-102464
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivarian_diaspora
VZ migrant related links
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/6999
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela%E2%80%93Colombia_migrant_crisis
https://www.unhcr.org/uk/venezuela-emergency.html?query=venezuela
recent articles or podcasts on VZ
Tony Solo interviews:
https://fair.org/home/us-media-erase-years-of-chavismos-gains/
Under Chávez, poverty in Venezuela was cut by more than a third, and extreme poverty by 57 percent (CEPR, 3/7/13)
https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2019/03/greens-report-on-their-peace-delegation-to-venezuela/
https://fair.org/home/western-media-fall-in-lockstep-for-cheap-trump-rubio-venezuela-aid-pr-stunt/
https://www.thenation.com/article/venezuela-sanctions-emergency/
https://mronline.org/2019/02/19/financial-blockade-chronology-of-a-strategy-to-destroy-venezuela
Snips from Feb/Mar 2019 VZ DSA email mailing list
https://www.facebook.com/dsavzsolidarity/
A tool DSA uses https://rootsaction.org/about-rootsaction
RA has been consistent in opposing US militarism and Interventions
https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=13602
Cicilline bill https://cicilline.house.gov/press-release/cicilline-introduces-legislation-prohibiting-unauthorized-military-force-venezuela
https://congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1004
https://www.codepink.org/hr1004
https://www.codepink.org/hands_off_venezuela
Khanna/Jayapal/Omar
http://dearcolleague.us/2019/02/oppose-trumps-sanctions-that-hurt-ordinary-venezuelans-most/
https://truthout.org/video/rep-ro-khanna-speaks-out-against-us-backed-coup-in-venezuela/
email snips from VZ DSA mailing list
From: bloodmario
<bloodmario --at-- gmail.com>Maduro is the elected president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,
and if we stand with his nation then we stand with its president. The
Venezuelan people are far, far more ideologically mature than the American
people are–they are more dynamically political than we are, and they have
tasted freedoms I have never known in America–they take over their work
places, pushing capitalist employers out; they labor in worker
cooperatives; and they live in communes. They worked collectively on
drafting a constitution that represents a revolutionary human-rights
perspective we can only dream about as Americans. Their constitution
recognizes rights to food and shelter, healthcare and work, and every
hypothetical person in the document is referred to pronominally as “he or
she.” Maduro is the sovereign who represents that constitution today. I’m
not going to position myself against a historical force of that stature and
significance from my apartment in New York. Maduro is a leader for the
human aspirations of the entire world in a way that no American president
ever is. It’s laughable for an American to criticize what the Venezuelan
people who elected Maduro last year have accomplished in Venezuela compared
to what little we as a people have accomplished in our own country in the
last 20 years. Last I checked, we were still fighting for Medicare for All.
[…]
I’m a big fan of a Canadian
Marxist named Stephen Gowans, and in the following excerpt from a blog post
written in 2011, he discusses three sorts of imperialist leftists. I’ll
just quote his assessment of the last group, the neither/nor group. This
group is Bernie’s group–and Gowans finds them the most revolting of all.
They are the passive, crybaby imperialists, who are confused and hurt by
the crimes of both sides, and are incapable of doing anything about either,
but invariably side weepingly and helplessly with the stronger of the two.
Gowans uses an analogy very like the one I just mentioned, comparing
Bernie’s review of Maduro’s rap sheet to the review of Mike Brown’s foibles
that invariably preceded reports of his murder. Gowans agrees with me that
a preface like that will only be proffered by an apologist for the cops.
From: bloodmario
<bloodmario --at-- gmail.com>Venezuela has been accepting aid from Russia, China, other countries, and
the UN no problem. The ONLY aid he’s rejecting is the regime-change-stunt
aid America is trying to use its military to force into Venezuela through
NATO Colombia and fascist Brazil. Anyway, if the US was so hot to help
Venezuela, it would keep its stupid aid shipments and lift the sanctions
that are directly responsible for the entirety of Venezuelan suffering
right now, since they make it impossible for the Venezuelans to receive any
oil revenues or access either its international accounts or international
credit. FAIR.org has been doing good reporting on all this in the last few
weeks–but so have a lot of other outlets including the indispensable
Venezuelanalysis and Internationalist 360.
From: bloodmario
<bloodmario --at-- gmail.com>I thought I would provide some basic information on the
situation in Venezuela from alternative sources, since it seems like we’re
coming from all over the place on this issue. All of these were written in
the last several weeks, so none of them deal with the humanitarian-coup
stunt directly, but they are essential reading to understand what’s going
on in this act of American aggression against Venezuela all of us are
talking so much about lately.
The following article is full of links to important sources, and it was
written by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers:
https://www.investigaction.net/en/venezuela-what-everyone-needs-to-know-about-the-us-led-coup/
This one is basic information about the general tactic of using USAID and
other humanitarian NGOs as the tip of the spear in covert American
aggression and sovereignty-violation operations:
https://popularresistance.org/us-funded-ngos-new-face-of-destabilization-in-latin-america/
And finally, this report at the Grayzone Project is about how the CIA and
NGOs like the NED cultivated opposition leaders like Leopold Lopez and Juan
Guaido:
https://grayzoneproject.com/2019/01/29/the-making-of-juan-guaido-how-the-us-regime-change-laboratory-created-venezuelas-coup-leader/
From: bloodmario
<bloodmario --at--gmail.com>We can debate more about this, but there is nothing any more suspect about
the Grayzone than there is about the Daily Beast or the *Washington
Post*. I’ve been following Blumenthal and Rania Khalek for years, and to my
mind, they are essential nodes of information for leftists. Believe me–I
read invective directed at them every day. Oh my God–I don’t even know how
they can live on this earth, they are demonized so routinely. It is
impossible to be unaware of the controversy surrounding Blumenthal, and to
have been aware of it for years–but like I said, I’ve been reading the
basic group around the Greyzone from even before they assembled under
that name at Alternet, and before Khalek lost her job at the *Electronic
Intifada, *and I see very, very little merit to the arguments incessantly
made by their detractors.
No matter where your news is coming from, the most dangerous propaganda
conspiracy on the face of the earth is the Washington Consensus. So there’s
little to fear from Max Blumenthal, comparatively. Max will not be running
death squads through Latin America, putting the severed heads of unionists
at the end of poles.
<peacepuravida --at-- gmail.com>Subject: Re: Slogans and Chants for 3/9 and 3/16
No coup, No sanctions, No war - Hands off Venezuela covers it well!
Interesting stats from their, email blast tool follow. One of us should study the tools provided by “Roots Action”:
To: DSA Venezuela Solidarity dsa-venezuela-solidarity@googlegroups.com
From: Bert Knorr
<bert.knorr --at-- gmail.com>Subject: Re: Tell Congress: No War on Venezuela
Here’s the breakdown of the Roots Action email blast by state and CD.
California leads the list w 1687 to Feinstein and Harris.
NY is second with 735 to Gillibrand and Schumer.
On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 6:27 AM Bert Knorr<bert.knorr --at-- gmail.com>wrote:
> Almost 9000 people responded to our email blast.
>
> Total actions taken 8915 The number of times the submit button was
> clicked.
> Total messages sent 26601 When an action is submitted, one message is
> sent per target. For example, if you targeted the US Senate, “total
> messages” should be about 2 times the number of actions.
> (e.g: There are 0, 1, or 2 US Senators for each citizen – depending on if
> the state or territory has senators, and if they are seated).
> Number of targets receiving messages 532 Total number of legislators
> and/or custom recipients receiving messages
> Distinct messages composed 410 Total number of subject lines and/or
> messages that were edited by the supporter to create unique subjects and
> messages.
> Number of distinct supporters 8648 Total number of supporters who
> clicked the submit button.
Adm. Craig S. Faller
Apparently “head of the United States Southern Command”.
https://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/navybio.asp?bioID=527
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_S._Faller
Furthermore, “The United States military has concluded that more than 1,000 Cuban military and intelligence advisers, working with the Russian government, have been instrumental in keeping the top echelons of the Venezuelan military loyal to Mr. Maduro, Admiral Faller added.”
DSA Venezuela Solidarity Committee Call 2/20/19
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-irH4LmOaU-sLgsvfT3t1l9Y4itglMVp8q4MpOIf1Lg/edit
copy of the proposal we’re getting Seattle DSA members to sign
asking the local council to endorse our local March 16th event.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-sYeaj1outZ3ZODdE_XnaoR1NhGmT6ClZ5c4dPqTyik/edit?usp=sharing
fact sheets, summaries, faq, statements/demands, activist tips, twitter guidelines
Activist kit, Feb 2019: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cWzqjTtOw4TCEKm8p20C_0jPfwC0VWpbrFePES74Jwk/edit#
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 21:44:39 -0500
Subject: VZ fact sheet for protests
To: DSA Venezuela Solidarity dsa-venezuela-solidarity@googlegroups.com
A number of folks have requested a succinct fact sheet on the situation in
VZ they can hand out at protests tomorrow and in march. Thanks to the
excellent work of Ryan Brown (thanks Ryan!), we now have one, that you can
find here.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1KXiC-tUmW4W-W7blgPrtx45e7PNXbqLX Feel
free to adapt it to your chapter’s needs …
UN OHCHR release denouncing the sanctions: https://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=24131&LangID=E
twitter tips https://docs.google.com/document/d/168OySgaILH5OgO0YmPSqABt5-p4Lgcn8I4gthhibnpA/edit?usp=sharing
twitter tips from Feb 2019 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17OLsOTaoeCwJ7JUE7IF-TMwtHODOM3Y6ImMMzzgYYjQ/edit#gid=0
To: DSA Venezuela Solidarity dsa-venezuela-solidarity@googlegroups.com
From: Mayap Flores
<mayapflores --at-- gmail.com>Subject: Re: Fliers to distribute
Here’s the original fact sheet made by Ryan:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KXiC-tUmW4W-W7blgPrtx45e7PNXbqLX/view
From: Alexander Main
<main --at-- cepr.net>Subject: Re: Dianne F. replied to VZ email campaign
This the Merkley Senate resolution
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/11/text?r=33&s=1 prohibiting
unauthorized military involvement in Venezuela. There are exactly zero co-sponsors.
Subsequent post/ related link S. J. RES. 11: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/11/text?r=33&s=1
DSA Venezuela Solidarity Weekly Report
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LTq-NerxzE7niEWGrfZ-72K8h-gej-25ZSB3TeV48cw/edit?usp=sharing
flyer example from DSA email
temp image: https://share.riseup.net/#BMvaS7ick9Ww4-nI6Zpm2g
OCR translation of portions from their flyer:
NO coup - NO war - NO sanctions
On Saturday, March 15, thousands of people will march in Washington, DC. against the Trump administration’s effort to engineer a coup in Venezuela and a new devastating war there. The aggressive policy against Venezuela repeats the ugiy pattern of wars for regime change in the oil-rich countries of Iraq and Libya.
National Security Advisor John Button is reading from
the same script, declaring a “troika of tyranny” in Latin America (like George W. Bush’s “axis of evil”) as a precursor for regime change first in Venezuela, and then Cuba and Nicaragua. Trump officials are openiy talking about seizing Venezuela’s vast oil reserves - the largest in the world.
It is time to stand up and with a clear voice say NO to the newest example of the “Monroe Doctrine,” which the US. government has used for over two centuries to repeatediy invade Latin America and Caribbean, control its politics and extract its resources.
The White House aims to overthrow the government of President Nicolas Maduro and replace him with Juan Guaidé. Guaidé is a U.S.-tmined operative who was unknown to the vast majority of Venezuelans before he proc|aimed himself president - at Vice President Mike Pence’s urging. A|though Guaidé has the backing of Trump, the CIA, and the Republican and Democratic Party leaderships alike, huge numbers of Venezuelans have marched to reject this coup and defend their independence.
graphic flyer ideas
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15Y4W6gYM6aA_6oMgPiKla-FQJvfLWg3m/view
Overview of Western Sanctions on Venezuela 2014+
(just started/TODO on Wed 03 Apr 2019 )
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/01/sanctions-of-mass-destruction-americas-war-on-venezuela/
https://fair.org/home/wapo-trump-needs-to-destroy-venezuela-to-save-it/
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/03/08/presstitutes-turn-blind-eye-to-un-report-on-venezuela/
Western Media Biased Venezuela Coverage
https://fair.org/home/pathological-deceit-the-nyt-inverts-reality-on-venezuelas-cuban-doctors/
VZ material from here and below was added prior to March 2019.
Make No Mistake: There is a media blockade against Venezuela
https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/13070
Since April 4th, opposition militants have been carrying out targeted acts of violence, vandalism and arson, as well as deliberately clashing with security forces in an attempt to plunge the country into total chaos and forcefully remove the elected socialist government. It is the continuation of an 18 year effort to topple the Bolivarian revolution by any means necessary — although you may have seen it miraculously recast in the mainstream media as “promoting a return to democracy” in the country.
an 18 year effort to topple the Bolivarian revolution by any means necessary — although you may have seen it miraculously recast in the mainstream media as “promoting a return to democracy” in the country.
This narrative cannot be described as even a remotely accurate interpretation of the facts, and so it is important to set the record straight.
but failed to acknowledge that a pro-government march of similar size, if not greater, was also held the same day. They simply erased the actions of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people. Whichever news agency you check, be it the BBC, the Washington Post, CNN, or any other corporate outlet, you will find the same, uniform consensus in their Venezuela coverage. There are no words to describe this state of affairs other than a total media blockade.
I spent 30 min this morning in early July 2018 trying to find articles and bloggers in support of the current gov in Venezuela. There appears to be an usually strong bias on twitter, and in general web searches for Venezuela in favor of the “failure of socialism”, and the over throw of Maduro.
Venezuela solidarity/anti-right sources
http://misionverdad.com/mv-in-english
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/index.html
https://venezuelasolidarity.wordpress.com/
http://www.venezuelasolidarity.org/
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwhrYL3jpdaB8KKRYPXtBHYFbto3aCdid
http://lacsn.weebly.com/venezuela.html
http://www.handsoffvenezuela.org/
http://iacenter.org/Venezuela/venezuela.htm
http://www.venezuelasolidarity.co.uk/
Venezuela economics; related right wing actions
http://www.unz.com/tsaker/saker-interview-with-michael-hudson-on-venezuela
http://www.radio4all.net/files/CPRmetro@gmail.com/4910-1-TODAYS_NEWS_082417_EM_limited.mp3
Aug 2017 interview of reporter Abby Martin.
Abby Martin interviews Dan Kovalik: Human Rights Hypocrisy — Colombia vs. Venezuela
labor & human rights attorney Dan Kovalik intro
DAN KOVALIK is a human rights and labor rights lawyer and peace activist. He Has contributed to articles in CounterPunch, Huffington Post, and TeleSUR. Currently he is teaching International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. ( From : https://kpfa.org/event/dan-kovalik/ )
George Monbiot Intro
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/George_Monbiot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Monbiot
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_Monbiot
http://powerbase.info/index.php/George_Monbiot
stall chop-down for Bay View copper beach tree
Let’s mobilize to stall the destruction of this tree long enough to give it a memorial celebration.
People to contact for the stall effort:
https://southshoreparkwatch.org/contact/
Regular meetings (when scheduled) are normally held the second Tuesday of each month, 7:00pm at the South Shore Park Pavilion (2900 S. Shore Drive).
friendsofsouthshorepark -at- gmail -dot- com
Supervisor Marina Dimitrijevic, 4th District
414-278-4232
Marina.Dimitrijevic -at- milwcnty -dot- com
plan
[x]First contact w/Marina Dimitrijevic Spoke today w/Arkesia who works for Marina. She suggests this is an issue that “the parks dept” is focusing on. No date for chop down is set. There is a consensus that a plan must be made for “what to do with the wood”. I mentioned the idea of a tree related event in front of the tree before chop down.[x]Wait or followup with “the parks dept” - Arkesia said they will get back to me. Arkesia got back to me saying thta the plan is to cut down tree by “end of summer”; that they are coordinating w/several groups for plans to use the wood; that director of parks John Daryle(sp?!) is the person to contact.[ ]Contact Milwaukee director of parks John Dargle Jr.[x]Get links/contact info for parks dept.[ ]Get someone to attend Tue Jul 11 Mtg 7:00pm at the South Shore Park Pavilion; 2900 S. Shore Drive.[ ]Contact SS park watch people[ ]Post to ‘Bay View Town Hall’ FB page[ ]Research other groups
Mondragon cooperatives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
Mosul Iraq (maps)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosul
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.4793701,43.1929732,7z?hl=en
Western 5th Column NGOs
NED National Endowment for Democracy
USAID intro
https://consortiumnews.com/2015/01/08/cias-hidden-hand-in-democracy-groups/
NED National Endowment for Democracy
https://williamblum.org/chapters/rogue-state/trojan-horse-the-national-endowment-for-democracy
https://consortiumnews.com/2015/07/30/why-russia-shut-down-ned-fronts/
http://www.ned.org/experts/larry-diamond-2/
Larry Diamond intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Diamond
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Larry_Diamond
WI Recount “Reform” Bills Worsen Already Opaque Elections, Critics Warn
July 11, 2017 | Sean Steinberg
Snips from the article:
Under Assembly Bill 153 and Senate Bill 102, candidates cannot request recounts unless they finish within one percent of the winner. The proposal would also reduce the time available for candidates to petition for recounts.
Tusler appeared to dismiss Stein’s justification for initiating the recount, when he noted that “the skeptical viewer” could easily believe she was using the recount to raise funds for her Green Party.
Despite the court ruling out a manual recount, FairVote credits the Wisconsin process with shedding light on “more than 11,000 errors in how ballots were counted on election night.” Among those errors, according to McKim, were “massive issues with counting and reporting the write-in votes,” “widespread problems processing early and absentee ballots,” and “scattered electronic miscounts.”
“Ideally all states would have robust post-election audits that would hand-recount a statistically significant random sample of the ballots cast to ensure that the election results are accurate. In practice, few states do this,” Wilson told WhoWhatWhy via email. “Whether the canvass boards are equipped to do it does not mean that they DO do it.”
McKim agreed. “You also need to be aware that election officials (municipal clerks and county clerks) generally are NOT professional managers of the sort you see in other IT-dependent operations, such as banking, retail uses of computer technology, or other government functions,” she wrote. “DO NOT assume that basic, common-sense quality-assurance practices taken for granted outside elections are used when counting votes.”
Though she described them as “absolutely inefficient,” McKim said that “in the absence of routine audits, recounts are necessary.” The good news, she added, is that “recounts are expensive, but routine audits need not be.”
In fact, the routine-audit solution proposed by SAVEOurVotes’ Wilson receives widespread support among election integrity activists, including Pam Smith, a consultant to the advocacy group Verified Voting.
“That should be the primary focus going forward: better audits can deter fraud and tampering, can uncover it if sufficiently robust, and can provide evidence of what the correct outcome should be, if actual voter intent is examined. If a robust audit is conducted after each election, the need for recounts should be reduced significantly,” Smith told WhoWhatWhy. “Right now, the state’s audit law needs work before it can be said to be an essential safeguard for the security of Wisconsin’s elections.”
While some may consider such safeguards too expensive, advocates believe they are vital to support healthy elections.
“When you consider what is at stake — the legitimacy of our democracy — it seems valuable to invest the time and effort to confirm that election results are fair and accurate. People quickly lose interest in participating in a process that they feel is rigged,” Wilson said.
Amnesty International
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Amnesty_International
http://keywiki.org/Amnesty_International
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Amnesty_International
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Amnesty_International
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are, essentially, weapons in the imperial arsenal. Their value to the empire increased exponentially when Barack Obama adopted humanitarian intervention as a pillar of American war doctrine. Who better than self-styled human rights activists to justify humanitarian wars?
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch denounce Russia and China as enemies of human rights in Syria, because they have resisted a catastrophic western military assault on that country. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch actively campaign for wars – and they always turn out to be the same wars that Washington is planning to wage. They provided much of the propaganda ammunition for the U.S. and European war against Libya, giving credibility to lies about an imminent massacre in Benghazi. Both organizations are imposters on the world scene, pretending to care for human rights while advocating that the U.S. and its friends trample on the national sovereignty of weaker states – as if human rights can exist outside the framework of international law.
https://consortiumnews.com/2012/06/18/amnestys-shilling-for-us-wars/
https://timhayward.wordpress.com/2017/01/23/amnesty-internationals-war-crimes-in-syria/
Just War Theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_war_theory
http://www.iep.utm.edu/justwar/
Talk_Nation_Radio_John_Dear_on_Catholic_Church_Rejecting_Just_War_Theory
law of just war and drones
- Interfaith_Conference_On_Drone_Warfare_-_Benjamin_Friedman.mp3
- Interfaith_Conference_On_Drone_Warfare_-_Cohn.mp3
- Interfaith_Conference_On_Drone_Warfare_-_Kebriaei.mp3
- Interfaith_Conference_On_Drone_Warfare_-_OConnell.mp3
SOA School of Americas / Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation
Film 1994 ‘School of the Americas Assassins’ produced by Produced by Robert Richter, narrated by Susan Sarandon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_the_Americas_Assassins
Youtube channel ‘Ixataar’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4eLYXJIZfg
Above Youtube is a must watch.
SOA almost shutdown: https://youtu.be/V4eLYXJIZfg?t=674
We’re only 30 or 40 votes short of winning. That means that if people around the country hear about this and write their congressman, we can win.This is an issue that we can win on. | –Congressman Joseph Kennedy II in 1993
Partial transcript of film
SOA protester discusses going to prison: http://www.radio4all.net/files/EpicGardens@gmail.com/3369-1-al_simmons_prisoner_of_conscience.mp3
http://www.soaw.org/about-the-soawhinsec/soawhinsec-grads/notorious-grads
1981-83 Slaughter in Guatemala
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1971/05/20/slaughter-in-guatemala/
https://www.hmh.org/la_Genocide_Guatemala.shtml
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemalan_genocide
over 200,000 children had lost at least one parent in the killings
Argentina Dirty War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor … started in 1968 and was officially implemented in 1975
In Argentina, up to 30,000 people were forcibly disappeared during the Dirty War.
1989 The six Jesuit martyrs of El Salvador
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_murders_of_Jesuits_in_El_Salvador
https://www.catholic-chaplaincy.org.uk/the-six-jesuit-martyrs-of-el-salvador/
Chile under Augusto Pinochet’s military regime 9/1973 to 4/1990.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2007/2/7/torture-under-pinochet-we-were-peeling/
Scholars estimate that the real number is between 150,000 and 300,000 victims.
94 per cent of the verified testimonies include incidents of torture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rettig_Report
https://www.usip.org/publications/1990/05/truth-commission-chile-90
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valech_Report
https://www.usip.org/publications/2003/09/commission-inquiry-chile-03
http://www.hpcrresearch.org/mrf-database/mission.php?id=57
NAFTA reform
Plan to keep collecting articles here.
http://replacenafta.org/issues/
https://www.citizen.org/sites/default/files/investor-state-chart.pdf
Above includes a chart of NAFTA tribunal cases or ‘NAFTA Cases & Claims’, many fortunately dismissed. A notable case is ‘ETHYL v. CANADA – MMT GASOLINE ADDITIVE’ , Ethyl won 13 million see p 11 of investor-state-chart.pdf; also p 21 in this citizen.org pdf.
The pacts provide foreign firms with a way to attack domestic public interest , land use, regulatory and other laws
investor state cases are litigated outside any domestic legal system in special international arbitration bodies of the World Bank and the United Nations. A three person panel composed of private attorneys listens to arguments in the case
if a corporation wins its investor state case, the taxpayers of the “losing” country must foot the bill.
https://www.citizen.org/sites/default/files/investor-state-chart.pdf
On page 11:
the Canadian government announced that it would settle with Ethyl, paying $13 million in damages and legal fees. Unusually, the Canadian government simultaneously announced it would reverse the ban on MMT – only recently passed to protect its citizens – allowing the toxin to reenter Canada’s gasoline supply .
Black Budget; Fed Defense Budget; Trillions Unaccounted
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_budget
Catherine Austin Fitts - Defense admitting ‘losing’ $6.5 trillion
Moslem Brotherhood
official website http://www.ikhwanweb.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood
the Qur’an is the Constitution
a transnational Sunni Islamist organization founded in Egypt by Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna in 1928.[1][2][3][4] The organisation gained supporters throughout the Arab world and influenced other Islamist groups such as Hamas[5] with its “model of political activism combined with Islamic charity work”,[6] and in 2012 sponsored the elected political party in Egypt after the January Revolution in 2011. However, it faced periodic government crackdowns for alleged terrorist activities, and as of 2015 is considered a terrorist organization by the governments of Bahrain,[7][8] Egypt, Russia, Syria, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s goal, as stated by its founder al-Banna was to drive out British colonial and other Western influences, reclaim Islam’s manifest destiny—an empire, stretching from Spain to Indonesia.
after the revolution Gamal Abdel Nasser, the leader of the ‘free officers’ cell, after deposing the first President of Egypt, Muhammad Neguib, in a coup, quickly moved against the Brotherhood, blaming them for an attempt on his life. The Brotherhood was again banned and this time thousands of its members were imprisoned, many being tortured and held for years in prisons and concentration camps. In the 1950s and 1960s many Brotherhood members sought sanctuary in Saudi Arabia.
the Muslim Brotherhood has never attempted to create a branch for Shia,
Brotherhood members fought alongside the Arab armies during the 1948 Arab–Israeli war, and, after Israel’s creation, the ensuing Palestinian refugee crisis encouraged more Palestinian Muslims to join the group.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/06/muslim-brotherhood-explained-170608091709865.html
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:Britain_and_the_Muslim_Brotherhood
During the early years of the Second World War, British strategy towards the Brotherhood in Egypt mainly involved attempts to suppress it. Yet at this time the Brotherhood, which was allied to the political right, also enjoyed the patronage of the pro-British Egyptian monarchy, which had begun to fund the Brotherhood in 1940. King Farouk saw the Brothers as a useful counter to the power of the major political party in the country – the secular, nationalist Wafd Party – and the communists. A British intelligence report of 1942 noted that ‘the Palace had begun to find the Ikhwan useful and has thrown its aegis over them.’ During this time, many Islamic societies in Egypt were sponsored by the authorities to oppose rivals or enhance the interests of the British, the palace or other influential groups.
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/egypts-muslim-brotherhood
9/14/01 AUMF Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_Against_Terrorists
Ukraine Conflict
Snipers at Ukraine’s Maidan confess to shooting both sides in Italian report ignored by MSM | The Vineyard of the Saker
Participants in 2014 Ukrainian coup
truth-of-ukraine-war-revealed-watchdog-media-releases-definitive-chronological-timeline-video-of-ukrainian-war
trump-faces-down-the-cia-and-co-opts-the-pentagon-on-syria-for-the-time-being
It is also likely that Trump’s gaggle of White House generals, led by Secretary of Defense James “Mad Dog” Mattis and national security advisor H.R. McMaster, have kept the Pentagon in check, preventing a reprise of the mutiny that sabotaged President Obama’s cease-fire and intelligence-sharing agreement with Russian forces in Syria, on September 17 of last year. In a blatant rebellion against civilian authority, U.S. warplanes killed 100 Syrian soldiers at Deir Ez-Zor, allowing ISIS to overrun half the city. The next week, with Secretary of Defense Ash Carter at his side, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford told the Senate Armed Services Committee, “The U.S. military role will not include intelligence sharing with the Russians.” The Pentagon had “punked” lame duck President Barack Obama and his secretary of state, John Kerry.
Trump this summer defied the War Party and its corporate media mouthpieces, negotiating a cease-fire with the Russians in several regions of Syria, to be followed by additional truces, and ending the CIA’s not-so-covert role as Grandmaster of Islamic Jihad. It seemed…unreal.
Trump could not resist a Twitter retort. “The Amazon Washington Post fabricated the facts on my ending massive, dangerous, and wasteful payments to Syrian rebels fighting Assad,” he wrote, effectively declassifying the now-defunct (are we sure?) CIA terror campaign.
Anti Assad Evidence; Syrian repression
in May 2007, Syrian courts sentenced leading dissident Kamal Labwani and prominent political writer Michel Kilo to long jail terms for their peaceful activities, only weeks after jailing human rights lawyer Anwar al-Bunni.
–snip
On July 28, 2009, the government detained Muhanad al-Hasani, a human rights lawyer and the foremost monitor of the State Security Court. Three months later, on October 14, 2009, it detained Haytham al-Maleh, 78, a human rights lawyer who criticized the regime’s policies
–snip
The crackdown began in August 2001. On August 9 the security services detained Ma’mun al-Homsi, a deputy in the People’s Assembly known for his criticism of the regime. Subsequent arrests of prominent political and rights activists soon followed, and within a month, Syrian authorities had arrested 10 opposition leaders, including two members of parliament, and cracked down on civil society advocacy groups. The two lawmakers, al-Homsi and Seif, were convicted of “attempting to change the constitution by illegal means” and “inciting racial and sectarian strife,” and sentenced by the Damascus Criminal Court to five years in jail. The other eight activists, Riad al-Turk,
Aref Dalilah, Walid al-Bunni, Kamal al-Labwani, Habib Salih, Hasan Sadun, Habib `Isa, and Fawwaz Tello, were referred to the Supreme State Security Court, which issued prison sentences of between two to ten years.
–snip
Dr. Kamal al-Labwani, a physician and founder of the Democratic Liberal Gathering, was sentenced in May 2007 to 12 years in prison for “communicating with a foreign country and inciting it to initiate aggression against Syria” after he visited the United States and Europe in the fall of 2005,
–snip
As one human rights lawyer told Human Rights Watch recently, “I cannot go on like this. I keep getting called in for interrogation. Every time I go, I don’t know if I will be detained or not.”
–snip
After Bashar al-Asad assumed power, he removed the outright ban on independent publications, but introduced a new Press Law (Decree No. 50/2001), promulgated on September 22, 2001, which provided the government with sweeping control over newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals,
Syria ranked near bottom of list for press freedom
https://rsf.org/en/ranking/2017
Snopes.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snopes.com
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Snopes
Luciana A Bohne Intro
Per Don Debar she is a retired Edinboro University of Pennsylvania (English?) Professor. Film critic, writer (often on Marxist analysis, and history). Still writing in 2017 for counterpunch.org.
email: lbohne -at- edinboro -dot- edu
https://www.facebook.com/luciana.bohne.1
https://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/02/06/p/05_immigrant.html
https://www.mylife.com/luciana-bohne/luciana-bohne
Edinboro (English?) Professor … Luciana Bohne was born in 1939. Luciana currently lives in Edinboro . … she lived in Edinboro , PA from 1974 to 2013. After high school, she went to Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
https://www.linkedin.com/in/luciana-bohne-56b12b49/
Did not find her here: http://www.edinboro.edu/directory/faculty-staff/
Got some hits here: http://www.edinboro.edu/search/search.html?keyword=Luciana+Bohne
She was an editor for: http://www.filmcriticismjournal.org/ Search for Bohne in http://www.filmcriticismjournal.org/back-issues.html.
http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/49690 – has an email address for her.
A few articles by Luciana A Bohne
http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/23051
~2014: http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/49690
Luciana Bohne is co-founder of Film Criticism, a journal of cinema studies, and teaches at Edinboro University in Pennsylvania. She can be reached at: lbohne -at- edinboro -dot- edu
https://www.counterpunch.org/author/luciana-bohne/
http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/author/luciana-bohne
2005: http://www.coyotekiva.org/luciana.html
2003: http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/BOH308A.html
Luciana Bohne interviewed by Don Debar on Russian revolution
Multi part Don Debar ongoing series of Luciana Bohne interviews over several weeks of Wednesdays.
Sorry my list of all the podcasts in this series below is incomplete, will try to update.
http://www.radio4all.net/files/CPRmetro@gmail.com/4910-1-TODAYS_NEWS_031518_EM_limited.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/CPRmetro@gmail.com/4910-1-TODAYS_NEWS_022818_EM_limited.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/CPRmetro@gmail.com/4910-1-TODAYS_NEWS_111517_EM_limited.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/CPRmetro@gmail.com/4910-1-WEEKDAY_WORLD_011818_EM_part_1_of_3.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/CPRmetro@gmail.com/4910-1-WEEKDAY_WORLD_011118_EM_part_1_of_3.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/CPRmetro@gmail.com/4910-1-WEEKDAY_WORLD_122117_EM_part_1_of_3.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/CPRmetro@gmail.com/4910-1-TODAYS_NEWS_100417_EM_limited.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/CPRmetro@gmail.com/4910-1-TODAYS_NEWS_092017_EM_limited.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/CPRmetro@gmail.com/4910-1-TODAYS_NEWS_091317_EM_limited.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/CPRmetro@gmail.com/4910-1-TODAYS_NEWS_090617_EM_limited.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/CPRmetro@gmail.com/4910-1-TODAYS_NEWS_083017_EM_limited.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/CPRmetro@gmail.com/4910-1-TODAYS_NEWS_082317_EM_limited.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/CPRmetro@gmail.com/4910-1-TODAYS_NEWS_081617_EM_limited.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/CPRmetro@gmail.com/4910-1-TODAYS_NEWS_080917_EM_limited.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/CPRmetro@gmail.com/4910-1-TODAYS_NEWS_080217_EM_limited.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/CPRmetro@gmail.com/4910-1-TODAYS_NEWS_072617_EM_limited.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/CPRmetro@gmail.com/4910-1-TODAYS_NEWS_071917_EM_limited.mp3
Charlottesville Police Inaction: Part of a Nationwide Development
I respect the author Peter Dale Scott
Here is the article: https://whowhatwhy.org/2017/08/14/charlottesville-police-inaction-part-nationwide-development/
The Charlottesville PD was inactive against right-wing violence; the Berkeley police department was inactive against left-wing violence. Question: were both instances cases of police just not wanting to get involved, or were they tacitly approving violence by actors they approved of?
David Brock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brock
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/David_Brock
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Brock
https://www.thenation.com/article/the-poisonous-politics-of-david-brock/
Brock’s empire, including Media Matters, American Bridge, ShareBlue, and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, served as a hit squad for the Clinton campaign last year. –snip
Brock, known for his silver pompadour and penchant for high drama, is a controversial figure among Democratic operatives. Nurtured in the netherworld of the far right, Brock was a foot soldier in what Hillary Clinton famously dubbed the “vast right-wing conspiracy” before converting. (He earned his stripes by slurring Anita Hill as “a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty.”)
After recanting and changing sides, Brock nevertheless prides himself on being as ruthless and amoral as the operatives on the right, –snip
F. William Engdahl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._William_Engdahl
http://www.williamengdahl.com/
http://www.voltairenet.org/auteur124557.html?lang=en
https://journal-neo.org/author/william-engdahl/
https://archives.kpfa.org/data/20170104-Wed1300.mp3
https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Hegemon-Whom-would-destroy/dp/3981723708
Muslim Brotherhood https://archives.kpfa.org/data/20170816-Wed1300.mp3 Worth listening to several times.
911 research
seismic evidence
http://noliesradio.org/archives/911freefall_2018-0111_web.mp3
Barbera Honegger
She’s a bit unusual - in 2017 she still refuses to setup a website; but is a tenacious old style researcher.
listen twice She is interviewed about her Oct 2015 talk in Italy, where she links project Gladio w/911.
3h video: 9-11 The Pentagon The Evidence & Conspiracy - Barbara Honegger Pdx 911 Truth
3h video: 9/11 Pentagon Attack - Behind the Smoke Curtain - Barbara Honegger
911 28 pages release, analysis by Barbera Honegger
Barbera Honegger Aug 19 2017 interview: https://archive.org/download/TheCovertReportWithSusanLindauer2017.08.19/format=VBR+MP3&ignore=x.mp3
35:38 USA paid to support and train hijackers inside USA.
36:22 “Bander Bush” was honary member of Bush family. Bander was in on 911 planning.
36:50 Obama kept it classified.
37:14 Obama’s mother in CIA.
37:35 Saudi disinfo campaign. They immediately lied about the released content of 28 pages.
38:14 Saudis’ using 12 lobbying firms to get 28 pages release “undone”/reclassified.
38:40 Saudis’ lying to US Vets. “Put them up” at Trump tower to manipulate them for lobbying Congress to stop lawsuites against Saudis. USA families now suing.
39:40 Saudi trump card - they know they did not execute 911 plot.
40:20 No evidence that any of the alleged 19 hijackers got on the planed.
41:08 48 hours after 911, 6-10 high jackers confirmed as still alive.
41:30 / 41:50 “Lead high jacker” Mohamed Atta contacts father after 911 attacks. Father said son works for Mosad. 6-10 hijackers show up alive. Mohamed Atta spoke fluent hebrew.
Mohamed_Atta Intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Atta
https://www.biography.com/people/mohamed-atta-241184#!
TODO - sourcewatch/others
James W. Loewen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._Loewen
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_W._Loewen
http://www.ushistory.org/us/historians/loewen.asp
James W. Loewen on Confederate Statues / Nadir of American race relations 1890-1940
David Swansen interviews Lowen in Aug 2017 http://www.radio4all.net/files/edit@radiofreeradical.org/4982-1-KW34-17-pt1.mp3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadir_of_American_race_relations
(permaculture) Mark Shephard
https://www.amazon.com/Restoration-Agriculture-Mark-Shepard/dp/1601730357
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_Valley
http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/shepard-on-restoration-agriculture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnoeb1x-XVA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm4eRuNqz2E&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xKb8rPb2ps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRhvrHeleoI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb_t-sVVzF0
Tony Solo Intro
Nicaraguan journalist Tony Solo (not his real name) is interviewed, typically for 30 min, once per week by Don Debar. Solo covers Latin America politics.
Tony Solo’s real name is Steven Sephten(spelling?)
Example podcast:
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/pze3ry/TODAYS_NEWS_041421_EM_limited.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/CPRmetro@gmail.com/4910-1-TODAYS_NEWS_082117_EM_limited.mp3
Tortilla Con Sal: http://tortillaconsal.com/quienes.html
http://tortillaconsal.com/recursos.html
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/staff/TortillaConSal
“Tortilla con Sal is an anti-imperialist collective based in Nicaragua producing information in various media on national, regional and international affairs. In Nicaragua, we work closely with grass roots community organizations and cooperatives. We strongly support the policies of sovereign national development and regional integration based on peace and solidarity promoted by the member countries of ALBA.”
Aleppo Syria zoo rescue/Aug 2017
https://ericmargolis.com/2017/08/escape-from-aleppo/
After a labor of Hercules, the heavy cages were unloaded from the trucks and the 13 new residents were gently introduced into their new enclosures. The animals were of course confused, exhausted and testy, but we were thrilled that our wards were finally safe in their new homes.
We humans were also exhausted, but elated. I had slept no more than a few hours for days and was groggy from jet lag and fatigue. But Four Paws had achieved the impossible and shone a beacon of humanity into the boiling darkness of Syria’s civil war.
As a final sign of good karma, lioness Dana gave birth to a feisty little girl who begins her life in a far better place.
Eva Bartlett intro
Her blog: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/
Eva Bartlett is an independent writer and rights activist with extensive experience in Syria and in the Gaza Strip, where she lived a cumulative three years (from late 2008 to early 2013). She documented the 2008/9 and 2012 Israeli war crimes and attacks on Gaza while riding in ambulances and reporting from hospitals. Since April 2014, she has visited Syria 7 times, including two months in summer 2016 and one month in Oct/Nov 2016 and her latest visit in June 2017 (to Aleppo, Homs, al-Waer, Madaya, al-Tall, Damascus). Her early visits included interviewing residents of the Old City of Homs, which had just been secured from militants, and visiting historic Maaloula after the Aramaic village had been liberated of militants. In December 2015, Eva returned to old Homs to find life returning, small shops opened, some of the damaged historic churches holding worship anew, and citizens preparing to celebrate Christmas once again. On her 5th visit in June-August 2016, …
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Eva_Bartlett
https://www.facebook.com/EvaBoBeeva
https://www.patreon.com/EvaKBartlett
Eva Bartlett articles appear in these sites
https://electronicintifada.net/people/eva-bartlett
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/authors/eva-bartlett/
https://www.strategic-culture.org/authors/eva-bartlett.html
https://www.globalresearch.ca/search?q=Eva+Bartlett
Abby Martin Intro
https://twitter.com/AbbyMartin
http://theempirefiles.tv Abby Martin
Abby Martin work samples
8/7/17 Abby Martin Exposes Zionism & Israel on Joe Rogan Podcast (Strong Language): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBRxt5ufnGg
Abby Martin interviews Dan Kovalik: Human Rights Hypocrisy — Colombia vs. Venezuela
Eric Margolis Intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Margolis_(journalist)
As a war correspondent Margolis has covered conflicts in Angola, Namibia, South Africa, Mozambique, Sinai, Afghanistan, Kashmir, India, Pakistan, El Salvador and Nicaragua. He was among the first journalists to ever interview Libya’s Muammar Khadaffi and was among the first to be allowed access to KGB headquarters in Moscow.
A veteran of many conflicts in the Middle East, Margolis recently was featured in a special appearance on Britain’s Sky News TV as “the man who got it right” in his predictions about the dangerous risks and entanglements the US would face in Iraq.
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Eric_Margolis
Eric Margolis articles published here
http://www.unz.com/author/eric-margolis/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/eric-margolis
https://www.lewrockwell.com/author/eric-margolis/
/Afghanistan/ As US Empire Fails, Trump Enters a Quagmire
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/08/29/as-us-empire-fails-trump-enters-a-quagmire/
Afghanistan is of geopolitical importance. It is a place where the US can impact China’s ‘One Belt One Road’ to Europe where China can take the place of Russia and the United States in providing wealthy Europeans with key commodities like oil and gas. Just as the United States has stayed in Germany, Italy and other European states and Japan after WW II, and in Korea after the Korean war, the empire sees a need to be in Afghanistan to be well positioned for the future of the empire. Terrorism is not the issue, economic competition with China, which is quickly becoming the leading global economic power, is the real issue.
Of course, the war also ensures immense profits for the war industry. St. Clair emphasizes that “in 2016, the Pentagon spent $3.6 million for each US soldier stationed in Afghanistan.
US Attorney Stanley L. Cohen intro
https://cagedbutundaunted.wordpress.com/
https://israelgenocide.com/tag/stanley-cohen/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Cohen_(attorney)
Stanley Cohen interviews
https://archive.org/download/StanleyCohen20170829/StanleyCohen20170829.mp3
Citizen Journalist Mark Taliano intro
http://russia-insider.com/en/mark-taliano
https://ahtribune.com/author.html?id=881
https://www.commondreams.org/author/mark-taliano
2017 book: Voices from syria
http://www.globalresearch.ca/voices-from-syria-that-the-west-has-refused-to-listen-to/5607215
http://modernwriters.org/focus/analysis/65533-voices-from-syria.html
Sep 2017 Interview of Taliano by Kevin Barrett
Robert Miranda campaign for lead free water
https://www.facebook.com/campaignforleadfreewater/
http://milwaukeenns.org/2016/09/16/residents-warned-about-dangerous-lead-levels-in-drinking-water/
http://urbanmilwaukee.com/people/robert-miranda/
www.nsf.org lead removing tap water filters
Lead in water lines/lead pipes is a big issue in Milwaukee now.
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/flintwater/SOM_WATER_LeadWaterGuide_512853_7.pdf
https://www.zerowater.com/faqs.php
The ZeroWater® Pitcher and filters are certified by NSF International for standards 42 and 53.
https://filterleadout.com/filter/best-lead-water-filter-reverse-osmosis/
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/water/factsheet/com/poulead.html
http://www.homedepot.com/p/GE-Reverse-Osmosis-Filtration-System-GXRM10RBL/202073853
Fabian Maldonado for Mayor of Racine
https://www.fabiformayor.com/fabi-for-mayor/
http://www.wisconsingreenparty.org/greens_support_fabi_maldonado_for_racine_mayor TODO: Get this endorsement link on Fabi’s website.
Volunteer https://www.fabiformayor.com/volunteer/
Racine, WI 53403
262-676-2208
Monday – Friday: 10AM – 7PM
Saturday: 10AM – 4PM
Sunday: 10AM - 3PM
General questions: Fabi for Mayor
Talking Racine (Ken Yorgan) interviews members of the Racine Green Party. The Racine Green Party is grassroots activists, advocates for social justice, environmentalist, nonviolent resisters and regular citizens who’ve had enough of corporate dominated politics. The Green Party is calling for a citizen referendum to all but eliminate the consequences of casual marijuana use. Another of the major initiatives of the Racine Green Party is to halt the taxpayer funded construction of the so called “arena project.”
A new voice FOR Racine
We are strong only when we stand together. Our goal will be to not only bring our diverse communities together, but to build a strong and thriving Racine. It’s time to lead the charge! Please vote for me September 19th.
As a long-term resident of Racine, I will bring the citizens’ views to the mayor’s office. With low voter turnout, it is apparent our electoral process and the responsibility of voicing everyday citizens’ concerns is no longer a high priority to our current elected officials. There are about 78,000 people here in Racine and only 8,000 to 14,000 vote. Why would we expect otherwise when the city council silences our voices on critical infrastructure spends like the arena? Or turning off street lights instead of installing renewable energy in neighborhoods to save on electricity? I will work to end this disconnect.
While I wear my progressive values like a badge at all times, I also respect the traditions of our government. I have the skill set to read through lengthy and often times dry legislation. I have no problem turning government communications into common everyday concepts so the citizens are aware of what we are doing and, most importantly, how it impacts them and future generations. I will do this once elected to office.
I have chosen to build a progressive coalition in Racine. We need people who are willing to sacrifice for this beautiful city and there are many opportunities to fulfill your civic duties. Racine has water quality and preservation concerns that need more citizen input. We have infrastructure issues that need forward thinking solutions. I welcome you to join me in engaging these committees and organizations. It’s time the everyday people take on representing ourselves.
Racine Green Party https://www.facebook.com/RacineGreenParty/
‘Talking Racine’ Youtube Channel
TODO:
- get endorsements to Fabi’s website
Racine Green Party
Co Chairs: Sandra Flunket, Fabian Maldonado
Racine Green Party https://www.facebook.com/RacineGreenParty/
‘Talking Racine’ Youtube Channel
350.org Milwaukee; mke350; Milwaukee350
https://www.facebook.com/350Milwaukee
http://350milwaukee.weebly.com/
Lee Fang Intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Fang
TODO
William F Buckley JR
http://www.greanvillepost.com/2017/09/15/the-dark-side-of-william-f-buckley-jr/
Thoughts On Charlottesville by Art Heitzer
From Turner Board President Art Heitzer:
[NOTE: this summary & analysis by our president is being shared for educational & discussion purposes, and has not been voted on by the Milwaukee Turners Board as a statement of policy or formal position.]
A FEW FACTS ABOUT THE RECENT EVENTS IN CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA
The day after a “white nationalist” gathering led to violent attacks directly killing one and wounding many others in Charlottesville, VA last month, President Donald Trump observed that there was“hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides, on many sides.” He later asserted that there were “very fine people” and bad people on both the “Alt-right” and the “alt-left.”[1]
Many have criticized him for these and his other related remarks.[2] [So what are the facts?]
1. About 1,000 mostly white males came to Charlottesville, VA on August 11-12, 2017 to participate in a “Unite the Right” rally, also stated to be in defense of a monument to Confederate General Robert E. Lee, in what the city government had renamed as Emancipation Park. This gathering included “white nationalists,” neo-nazis, supporters of the KKK, and a variety of newer groups, and included prominent white supremacists who were scheduled to speak. They have been called the “alt-right,” a term coined by one of their leaders, Richard Spencer, and also used by Steve Bannon, who as head of Breitbart News declared it was “the platform for the alt-right.”[3] Bannon was the “Chief Strategist” to President Donald Trump at the time of the violence in Charlottesville. He has since given up his position in the White House and returned to head Breitbart.
1A. Many of them marched in a (tiki) torchlight parade on Friday night August 11th, surrounding a church where Black clergy and others gathered to express their opposition to racism and hatred. The marchers chanted the nazi slogan “Blood and soil” (from “Blut und Boden”),[4] “You will not replace us,” and “Jews will not replace us!”[5] They confronted and attacked a group of University of Virginia students and staff who were by a monument to UVA founder Thomas Jefferson. Friends of UVA library employee Tyler Magill, reported that he was hit in the neck by a torch during that attack; he later suffered a stroke which his doctors attributed to recent trauma to his neck. He is 46 years old and white.[6]
1B. As seen live on national cable news on Saturday morning, the white nationalists included many in black uniforms dressed much like riot police, carrying shields and clubs, and wearing helmets. Some were armed with pepper spray; others openly carried assault rifles which is evidently allowed in Virginia, an open carry state. With them were others carrying flags with the nazi swastika, neo-nazi symbols, and confederate flags.
2. On Friday evening in a church, and on Saturday at Emancipation Park, many more thousands of mostly Charlottesville people gathered to show their opposition to white supremacy. While Donald Trump called them the “alt-left,” there is no such entity. These local residents and students were of many colors and ethnicities. Among them were some people called Antifa (short for Anti-fascists), who are decentralized, autonomous and sometimes anarchists (who are against authority). Antifa believe that white racist groups are a threat when they take the public space and intimidate people of color and others, and that to prevent this they should be physically confronted if necessary.[7]
3. Absent an imminent threat to violence, mainstream U.S. law interpretations hold that expressing racial hatred and supremacy is protected free speech, and the same for advocating violence or genocide if such action is not imminent (a “clear and present danger”). This is not true in many other nations where “group defamation” is recognized and is not considered protected. In Germany, based on 12 years of nazi rule and the the Holocaust, it has been illegal since the nazi defeat in 1945 to publicly display the swastika , and nazi parties are banned. This was true under the U.S. occupation of Germany, and has continued since. In the U.S., millions of persons were forcibly imported, killed, enslaved and sold over a period of some 250 years; this was justified by an ideology of white supremacy based on skin color. That ideology was then also used to justify denying African Americans equal rights for most of another century. This legacy has not been recognized as justification for similar measures here which the U.S. had mandated against the nazis in Europe, and which are still in force today. There is some irony in this, as the London Economist noted, “indeed, the Nazis were inspired by Jim Crow laws and studied segregation as a possible model for German society.”[8]
4. On Saturday August 12, Charlottesville and Virginia police corralled the armed “white nationalists” together with thousands of anti-racists, and for approximately one hour stood on the perimeter with little or no intervention, as members of the “alt-right” kicked and clubbed people of color and protesters. Some of the anti-racists fought back at times, but without similar weaponry.
4A. DeAndre Harris, a local African American teacher and DJ, was brutally beaten on the ground right across from the police station, breaking his wrist and a tooth, among many injuries, and requiring eight staples to his head. This took place without any prompt police intervention. Afterwards he and other witnesses reported little interest from the police or FBI. After two weeks, single charges each of “malicious wounding” have been brought against two white males: an admirer of Hitler from Ohio and a second man in Georgia for being a part of this attack, which included at least six people repeatedly punching, kicking and beating Harris with metal poles as seen and video recorded by a journalist who was interviewed on Democracy Now.[9]
4B. Another white supremacist from Maryland who claims to be a KKK Imperial Wizard pointed a pistol and evidently shot a round into the crowd, towards an anti-racist with an aerosol can used to burn a white supremacist flag; the alleged shooter has been charged, including with discharging a firearm within 1,000 feet of a school.[10]
5. The City of Charlottesville had tried to locate the “alt-right” demonstration to a different location but in response to a lawsuit by the ACLU, a judge upheld their “right” to rally at the park. After watching rather than trying to stop the violence, city authorities declared an “unlawful assembly.” In responding to attempts by Virginia’s governor to blame the ACLU for the violence, its VA Executive Director replied, “In fact, law enforcement was standing passively by, seeming to be waiting for violence to take place, so that they would have grounds to declare an emergency, declare an ‘unlawful assembly’ and clear the area.”[11] The ACLU later said they were misled by the white nationalist rally leaders who promised to be nonviolent, and the ACLU also said it would consider whether not to intervene on behalf of armed groups or where there was a potential for violence.[12]
6. All of the incidents and attacks described above were well before a nazi sympathizer from Ohio drove his car into and then back over innocent protesters, killing a white Charlottesville paralegal, Heather Heyer and seriously wounding 19 others.
7. Some people who oppose racism believe that the best approach is to ignore rather than confront such organized racist manifestations, even if that means to allow them to take the public space. This includes the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has litigated, researched, and done much education regarding what it considers to be hate groups, and argues that counter-demonstrating against racist extremists gives them publicity they would not get otherwise. Some liken the antifa to being similar to the racist right, in tactics if not in ideology. Some suggest creative alternatives to confrontations.[13]
8. The current controversy has been linked to the attempts to remove from the public space monuments to leaders of the confederacy, who took up arms against the United States in order to defend the institution of slavery. The vast majority of these monuments were not erected shortly after the war, but were established at the height of the Jim Crow period, in which Blacks were denied equals rights, including the right to vote. From about 1880 through the 1920’s, this followed the violent destruction of reconstruction governments throughout the South, in which poor whites and poor blacks had united to establish governments which provided for equal rights, established free public schools for the first time, and many other reforms. These fusion governments were protected by federal troops until 1877, when violence and terror tactics were used to disfranchise African Americans and intimidate or their white allies. The KKK was the primary organization used to reverse Reconstruction and re-establish white racial rule. As late as 1898 the duly elected government of Wilmington NC had persisted, only to be overthrown in what has been called the only coup d’état in U.S. history, accompanied by killing many Blacks and forcing over 2,000 to flee. This was a history that these monuments do not tell. Rather they were erected, according Univ. of North Carolina History Prof. Karen L. Cox “as part of a campaign to paint the Southern cause in the Civil War as just and slavery as a benevolent institution, and their installation came against a backdrop of Jim Crow and oppression of African Americans. The monuments were put up as explicit symbols of white supremacy.”[14]
9. The Milwaukee Turners was founded by German immigrants and refugees from the failed democratic revolution from 1848-49. They were strong abolitionists. The founder of the Milwaukee Turners and at least six American Turners served as Generals in the Union army. After President Lincoln agreed with the appeals by Frederick Douglass, and many others (including Karl Marx) that it was necessary to arm African Americans to fight for the Union cause, the Civil war took a decisive turn. While the troops were generally segregated, and only whites could be officers, it was a Turner general who was honored to command the African American troops which then seized and occupied the capital of the confederacy, Richmond Virginia, near the end of the Civil War. In 1911, as Jim Crow was being strengthened in the South — accompanied by monuments which are now being challenged and removed — the Milwaukee Turners established their Civil War monument to honor 26 members who gave their lives for the Union cause and to abolish slavery.
– Art Heitzer, artheitzer@gmail.com
[1]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/15/donald-trump-press-conference-far-right-defends-charlottesville
[2]John Oliver’s Aug. 13, 2017 indictment was among the most powerful, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07tMQs-5SD8
[3] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right.
[4]‘Blood and soil’: Protesters chant Nazi slogan in Charlottesville – CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/12/us/charlottesville-unite-the-right-rally/index.html
[5]“Jews Will Not Replace Us” in Charlottesville – YouTubeVideo for “jews will not replace us”? 0:42
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n12sjwk9FBE ; and ‘Jews will not replace us’: Vice film lays bare horror of neo-Nazis in America, at https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/16/charlottesville-neo-nazis-vice-news-hbo
[6]University librarian suffers stroke after UVA protest injury (Cville Nazi …
https://article.wn.com/.../University\_librarian\_suffers\_stroke\_after\_UVA\_protest\_inju...; http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/university-librarian-suffers-stroke-after-uva-protest-injury/ar-AAqddaB?li=BBnb7Kz
[7]“Who are the antifa?” Mark Bray, The Washington Post, Aug 16, 2017, at:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/.../who-are-the-antifa/
[8]See “How Germany responds to ‘blood and soil’ politics” – The Economist
https://www.economist.com/blogs/kaffeeklatsch/2017/08/charlottesville-context, and compare to a contemporary left view from Berlin, at by U.S. expatriate Victor Grossman, August 18, 2017 at https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/08/21/charlottesville-and-thuringia/
[9] See DeAndre Harris Was Savagely Beaten by White Supremacists in Virginia. Why Only Two Arrests So Far? Democracy Now.org, Aug. 31, 2017, at
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/8/31/deandre\_harris\_was\_savagely\_beaten\_by. This British tabloid report, contains graphic photos of his injuries, at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4786934/Race-riot-victim-left-horrifying-wounds-attack.html.
[10]https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/three-men-charged-in-charlottesville-attacks-on-counterprotesters/2017/08/27/f08930a4-8b5a-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37\_story.html?utm\_term=.d1d010851642
[11]ACLU of Virginia Response to Governor’s Allegations that ACLU is Responsible for Violence in Charlottesville, August 14, 2017, at https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-virginia-response-governors-allegations-aclu-responsible-violence-charlottesville
[12]“After Backing Alt-Right in Charlottesville, A.C.L.U. Wrestles With Its Role,” by JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN (“It indicated on Thursday that, in evaluating whether to take free-speech cases involving public gatherings, the group would consider the potential for violence at the event and whether protesters were going to be carrying firearms.”), at
[13] See, e.g., “Punching Nazis, counterprotests are not the only way to oppose white supremacy,”
[14] “The whole point of Confederate monuments is to celebrate white supremacy – The memorials are a legacy of the brutally racist Jim Crow era.” by Karen L. Cox August 16, 2017, at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/08/16/the-whole-point-of-confederate-monuments-is-to-celebrate-white-supremacy/?tid=a\_inl&utm\_term=.e2c6f6fd931e
Dr. Ken Yorgan (Racine Green Party)
https://www.yorganforcongress.com/
https://www.facebook.com/yorganforcongress/?fref=mentions
https://www.facebook.com/ken.yorgan
‘Talking Racine’ Youtube Channel
https://www.facebook.com/talkingracine/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-yorgan-63869340/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/4365705/
https://patternorpractice.com/2015/09/04/dr-ken-yorgan-sociopathy-and-politics/
http://racineequalityproject.org/?p=76
https://racineinruins.wordpress.com/tag/ken-yorgan/
https://www.healthcare6.com/physician/racine-wi/kenneth-john-yorgan-213497.html
https://www.ehealthscores.com/providers/izd-llqpwwtsxc/KENNETH-YORGAN.html
Intro Eric Hansen author, advocate and commentator; the Upper Great Lakes
https://www.eric-hansen.com/about/about.html
http://urbanmilwaukee.com/people/eric-hansen/
Rania Khalek intro
https://raniakhalek.com/about-2/
Rania Khalek is an independent journalist reporting on the underclass. She is a regular contributer and member of the editorial board at The Electronic Intifada. Her work has also appeared at Truthout, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Al Jazeera America, The Nation, Salon, AlterNet, Vice and more.
https://www.facebook.com/RaniaKhalek1/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rania_Khalek
https://www.youtube.com/user/RaniaKhalek
podcast rss feed http://unauthorizeddisclosure.libsyn.com
I was refered to Rania from another local activist.
familiarity: Last then 6 months (as of Sat 10 Mar 2018)
by or about Rania Khalek
https://electronicintifada.net/people/rania-khalek
http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/45360
https://theintercept.com/staff/rania-khalek/
https://www.thenation.com/authors/rania-khalek/
Milwaukee IWW
https://iww.org/directory/milwaukee/
https://iww.org/directory/union_category/wi/
By or about IWW
https://ia601503.us.archive.org/6/items/iwwworldpeter/iwwworldpeter.mp3
Milwaukee IWW GDC; IWW General Defense Committee
https://www.iww.org/projects/gdc
The national website above makes a good first technical impression on me (ignoring content).
https://www.facebook.com/mkeGDC/
https://itsgoingdown.org/defend-abortion-access-milwaukee-gdc/
The General Defense Committee is the community self-defense arm of our labor union, the Industrial Workers of the World. The IWW is a democratically-run union for all workers that believes we can use collective action to improve our working conditions and our lives. The GDC takes these principles and applies them to organizing in defense of our communities, especially in support of targeted groups such as immigrants, racial and religious minorities, and members of the LGBTQ community.
IGD has this https://itsgoingdown.org/building-mass-antifascism-milwaukee/ article on the Sun 7pm Aug 13 Riverwest rally in response to Charlottesville. Notice the effort to blur out faces in photos.
https://www.iww.org/content/milwaukee-gdc-joins-6k-run-remembrance-temple-shooting
IGD isgoingdown.org
- https://itsgoingdown.org/about/
https://itsgoingdown.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/YoureOneOfUs-HD.mp4
Who we are:
[It’s Going Down ][is a digital community center from anarchist, anti-fascist, autonomous anti-capitalist and anti-colonial movements. Our mission is to provide a resilient platform to publicize and promote revolutionary theory and action.]
What we do:
We publish original content alongside anonymous submissions as well as repost articles from websites which share our perspectives.
We maintain active Twitter, Instagram and Facebook social media accounts, in addition we publish a yearly magazine.
We offer this website through Tor Hidden Services @ http://IGDNEWSdjfmg7kxu.onion ( please download and use Tor Browser).
We are anarchists:
We act in the spirit of autonomy, mutual-aid and solidarity.
They appear to coordinate w/IWW. Not sure what to make of them.
They also have this podcast feed: https://itsgoingdown.org/feed/podcast/
sign: Climate-Stabilize! De-Militarize! De-Privatize!
Climate-Stabilize! De-Militarize! De-Privatize!
Don Fitz fitzdon@aol.com
A National Committee member of the Green Party USA.
Global Population
1974 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Study_Memorandum_200
Seymour M Hersh
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/09/24/hersh-receives-adams-award-for-integrity/
work by or about
https://thewhistleblowernewsroom.podbean.com/mf/play/vwe6kf/WB_051019.mp3
Ron Unz Intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Unz
Max Blumenthal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Blumenthal#Syria
Stale, when I checked on Sat 30 Sep 2017: http://maxblumenthal.com/
Max Blumenthal articles appear here
https://www.thenation.com/authors/max-blumenthal/
PropOrNot list
Who’s Behind PropOrNot? George Eliason Explains the US Govt Propaganda Ring
Google search de-ranks black-listed-sites in search results.
https://www.projectcensored.org/12-facebooks-blacklist-of-dangerous-individuals-and-organizations-stifles-public-debate/ | Nov 26 2022
Facebook’s policy on “Dangerous Individuals and Organizations” (DIO) has become “an unaccountable system that disproportionately punishes certain communities,” Sam Biddle reported for the Intercept in October 2021. The policy, he reported, includes a “blacklist” of more than 4,000 people and groups, “including politicians, writers, charities, hospitals, hundreds of music acts, and long-dead historical figures.” The list, which Facebook employs some 350 specialists to maintain, is not public—despite calls for its release by legal scholars, activists, and Facebook’s own oversight board, the Intercept reported.
Another wave of Internet Social Media acct purges|Oct 2018 project censored
Chris Hedges, Aug 2018. On PropOrNot; search engine censorship. SKIP in 38m 27s.
Dec 2017 Joe Lauria interview (mp3)
Google blacklist/quarantine ‘blocked website’ list - ‘The New Censorship’ by Robert Epstein
Google intensifies censorship of left-wing websites
Dec 2017 Chris Hedges/TruthDig on deranking
https://www.alternet.org/media/editorial-googles-threat-democracy-hits-alternet-hard
Google’s Eric Schmidt admits political censorship of search results
Google announces moves to censor RT and Sputnik
youtube - Oct 29 2017 On Contact: The Silencing of the Left with Robert Scheer
partial list of sites deprecated by google, from Gary Null
Gary Null mentions http://archive.today/2017.01.25-172755/http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-25/google-permanently-bans-200-fake-news-sites which does not show an explicit list.
Skip in 29:20 https://thegarynullshow.podbean.com/mf/play/aihbiw/GaryNull_110617.mp3 for a list of sites now deprecated by google. At 29:48 Gary Null lists Richard (Gale or Gill?) is one of his scholars that took on the task of identifying some of the sites targeted for “banning or ignore” by google, list starts at 30:19:
TODO - disamb this list
- 30:20 https://www.activistpost.com/
- 30:23 revolutionary werword press ??
- 30:30 a tribune.com, did he mean “http://www.atribune.org/” ???
- 30:38 ancientcode ?? TODO
- 30:42 antiwar.com
- 30:45 http://blackagendareports.com
- 31:02 http://beforeitsnews.com
- 31:05 assassinationscience
- 31:15 consortiumnews
- 31:18 collectiveevolution
- 31:23 counterparts
- 31:29 counterpunch
- 31:32 dailystormer
- 31:35 darkpolitics
- 31:40 defenddemocracy press
- 31:45 endingtheft.com
- 31:57 gia.com
- 32:10 https://heresyblog.com/ (German only?)
- 32:12 thealternativenews
- 32:19 uspoliceshow?
- 32:22 usanews home?
- 32:27 veterans news
Other (non google) web censorship
April 2018: https://southfront.org/facebook-launches-large-scale-censorship-campaign-against-southfront/
Community Brainstorming: FOXCONN - WHAT IS IT AND HOW DO WE GET INVOLVED?
meeting youtube video Sat 9/22
Other than Louis Butler, everyone that spoke seemed to think the deal was certain – “the train has left the station”.
Foxconn is a Tawain co. This factory will be the largest in USA - 20 million sq feet.
Lena repeatedly complained about inadequate funding and planning for job training, thta would prepare her constituents for the Foxconn positions.
One third engineers ( R&D facility ); 1/3 jobs requiring 2 yr degrees - factory/assy work; 1/3 facility management, warehouse work and transport.
We already have $22 round trip service Milwaukee to Sturtevant WI.
Expecting need for new housing, for nationwide, and international influx of engineering talent.
Implied April 2018 Supreme Ct election could result in Foxconn law being over turned.
Any appeal of amendment 808.055 (Electronic Manufacturing Zone), goes immediately to the (stacked) Supreme Ct. This is legislation that restructures Judiciary process. “Automatic Stays pending appeals … reviewable by Supreme Ct … removing digression from trial court judges”
1:07:38 Marbarry vs Madison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbury_v._Madison
“The court determines what the law is… The law is what we (the court) say it is.”
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_review_in_the_United_States]
Wisconsin has executive, judicial, and legislative branches, but unlike other states where these are fairly clearly separated realms, Wisconsin has instituted a juristition class refered to as a “zone of shared powers”. For a given law or rule in the “shared power” class, which ever branch “speaks last” on that topic ‘controls’!
Notable people at mtg
As usual, there were politicians in the audience: Judge Rebecca Dallet (running for WI Supreme ct), State Rep Fred Kessler, and Tony Evers running for governor.
Speakers
- Timothy R. Sheehy
- president of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce
- Jamaal Smith
- racial justice community engagement manager at YWCA Southeast Wisconsin.
- Gerard Randall
- executive director of the Milwaukee Education Partnership
- head of the board for Social Development Commission (SDC)
notes
Cost per job: (4 * 10^9 dollars)/(13 *1000 jobs) = $308K/job
Gerard Randall (local/MKE) Intro
2017:
- executive director of the Milwaukee Education Partnership
- head of the board for Social Development Commission (SDC)
http://www.cr-sdc.org/SDC-Insider-/Comissioners/BioGerardRandall2-4-13.pdf
http://www.cr-sdc.org/SDC/About/Board-of-Commissioners.htm
Coverage of Gerard Randall
http://urbanmilwaukee.com/2013/12/03/murphys-law-the-new-non-profit-kingpins/
Randall represents Milwaukee Public Schools on the 18-member board. He is executive director of the Milwaukee Partnership Academy. He’s also a former member of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.
For nine years, Randall was president and CEO of the old Private Industry Council of Milwaukee County, a federally financed agency charged with training and finding jobs for Milwaukee’s unemployed.
Douglas Engelbart Intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engelbart's_Law
https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/library/extra4/sloan/mousesite/1968Demo.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Dormouse_Said
DNC 2016 Hack vs Leak IT Forensics
https://theforensicator.wordpress.com/
https://nef4rhc.wordpress.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guccifer_2.0
https://guccifer2.wordpress.com/2016/10/04/clinton-foundation/
William Binney confirms covers download speed consistent with local hack
http://www.radio4all.net/files/CPRmetro@gmail.com/4910-2-WEEKDAY_WORLD_111017_EM_part_2_of_3.mp3
Atty Scott Horton Columbia Unv Intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Horton_(attorney)
http://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/scott-horton
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scott_Horton
Philip Giraldi Intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Giraldi
http://www.unz.com/author/philip-giraldi/
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/author/philip-giraldi/
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Philip_Giraldi
Peter Van Buren Intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_van_Buren
Peter Van Buren article collections
https://www.thenation.com/authors/peter-van-buren/
Col Andrew J. Bacevich, Sr. Intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Bacevich
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Andrew_Bacevich
Andrew J. Bacevich article collections
https://www.theatlantic.com/author/andrew-j-bacevich/
Dr. Jonathan Simon Intro
http://electiondefensealliance.org/jonathan_simon
http://codered2014.com/author/jon/
collections of articles by Jonathan Simon
http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/50173
Karen McKim Intro
https://karenmckim.wordpress.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-mckim-79a47747/
Karen McKim interviewed or covered here:
http://www.wisconsinelectionintegrity.org/tags/karen_mckim
http://isthmus.com/news/news/just-how-accurate-are-wisconsins-vote-counting-machines/
http://www.wisconsinelectionintegrity.org/tags/karen_mckim
http://www.wisconsingrassroots.net/mckim_us
http://wiscomedia.com/category/election-integrity/
Mark Crispin Miller Intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Crispin_Miller
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/mcc/faculty/Mark_Crispin_Miller
http://markcrispinmiller.com/about/
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Crispin_Miller
https://www.facebook.com/markcrispinmiller/
http://markcrispinmiller.com/2014/06/forbidden-bookshelf/
by or about Mark Crispin Miller
As I recall, he was one of the first to support the 2016 GPUS/Stein driven presidential election recounts, based on anomalies he found when analyzing the results.
(Sep 2021) In my opinion he desserves our support – he is under attack, and fighting to keep his position.
Project Censored Podcast
https://kpfa.org/program/project-censored/
Project Censored Podcast RSS feed: https://kpfa.org/program/project-censored/feed/
http://projectcensored.org/about-us/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Censored
https://www.facebook.com/ProjectCensored
Election Integrity Tech
https://trustthevote.org/our-work/overview/
https://www.osetfoundation.org/
WI Election Integrity Resources/Links
http://www.electiontraining.gab.wi.gov/
Project Censored Election Integrity Update Oct 2017
Today Oct 8 2017, there is an election integrity conference in progress in Berkeley, CA.
Wisconsin’s Karen McKim, who worked tirelessly on the Stein 2017 recount is a speaker there.
Karen McKim talk on fall 2018 5% voting hand recount audit
Here is an interesting project censured pre conference interview https://archives.kpfa.org/data/20171006-Fri1300.mp3 with Voting Rights Task Force members Mark Crispin Miller, and Jonathon Simon.
Jon Rappoport Intro
His name is familiar, but I really do not know much about him as of Sun 08 Oct 2017.
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Jon_Rappoport
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jon_Rappoport
https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/
http://www.nomorefakenews.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/jonrappoport
familiarity: still following sporatically Fri 13 Apr 2018
work by or about Jon Rappoport
https://www.opednews.com/author/author91595.html
Misc Recent US War-Related Propaganda
These 3 podcasts unfortunately are not attributed properly with sources. In general I do vouch for Gary Null’s integrity – he put this audio together.
Part 0. East Aleppo Syria White Helmets. Skip in 48:54 http://thegarynullshow.podbean.com/mf/feed/i5gdug/GNS_100417.mp3
Part 1. East Aleppo Syria White Helmets. Skip in 37:00: http://thegarynullshow.podbean.com/mf/feed/kbt5g4/GaryNull_100517.mp3
Part 2. This is will worth listening to, and it’s claims in general can be checked fairly easily. It’s about the US War-Related Propaganda leading up to the 2003 Iraq War. Skip in 24:56: http://thegarynullshow.podbean.com/mf/feed/zkczdw/GNS_100617.mp3
Corp Media News Propaganda; Examples/Strategy
Intended as one stop collection for notes on Internet censorship, and media propaganda.
Big Tech acct takedowns | audio/overview
https://archives.kpfa.org/data/20210129-Fri1300.mp3
https://www.mintpressnews.com/long-history-new-york-times-endorsing-us-backed-coups/263059/
William Colby on CIA assets in press
https://consortiumnews.com/2016/09/16/us-media-ignores-cia-cover-up-on-torture/
The late William Colby, CIA director from 1973 to 1976, has been quoted ( by Barbera Honegger ) as saying: “The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media.” Whether or not Colby was quoted correctly, the experience of the past several decades suggests it is largely true. Better sourced is a quote from William Casey, CIA director from 1981 to 1987: “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
Rolling Stone Bernstein cover story 10/20/1977 ‘THE CIA AND THE MEDIA’
short video - CIA Admits Using News To Manipulate the USA
http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2012/02/29/cia-admits-using-msm-to-manipulate-the-usa-video/
“Live list” | propganda/censorship articles
https://consortiumnews.com/2018/02/12/how-establishment-propaganda-gaslights-us-into-submission/
https://www.globalresearch.ca/new-york-times-great-paper-great-propaganda-organ/5308591
https://www.globalresearch.ca/remembering-edward-herman/5618571
https://www.globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-mainstream-media-fake-news-war-propaganda/5617927
the-legacy-of-reagans-civilian-psyops
Misc Recent US War-Related Propaganda
“Conspiracy Theory” as weaponized term
USA News Media Worked Hand in Glove w/CIA & Why the Church Committee Covered It Up BY CARL BERNSTEIN
Jim Garrison has a lot to say about press misinformation.
Amy Goodman ‘Democracy Now’ Integrity
Michael R. Gordon Intro/crediblity
6/25/17 S Hersh: Apr 4 Khan Sheikhoun bombing/Apr 6 US Missile Strike
4/4/2017 Trump’s Syria Missle Strike
Edward Bernays Intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Edward_Bernays
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Edward_Bernays
https://www.corbettreport.com/meet-edward-bernays-master-of-propaganda/
the-legacy-of-reagans-civilian-psyops
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/10/13/the-legacy-of-reagans-civilian-psyops/
Leading mainstream media outlets and establishment-approved Web sites are now teaming up with Google, Facebook and other technology companies to develop algorithms to bury or remove content from the Internet that doesn’t march in lockstep with what is deemed to be true, which often simply follows what U.S. government agencies say is true.
Yet, the documentary evidence is now clear that the U.S. government undertook a well-defined strategy of waging psyops around the world with regular blowback of this propaganda and disinformation onto the American people via Western news agencies covering events in the affected countries.
During more recent administrations, euphemisms have been used to cloak the more pejorative phrase, “psychological operations” – such as “public diplomacy,” “strategic communications,” “perception management,” and “smart power.” But the serious push to expand this propaganda capability of the U.S. government can be traced back to the Reagan presidency.
Related zq3q propaganda or censorship sections
https://zq3q.org/pco/#lyulz_propornot_list
https://zq3q.org/pco/#ybhpu_Google_censorship
https://zq3q.org/pco/#blkna_gnull-goocensorlist
https://zq3q.org/pco/#rjlsq_Bellingcat
https://zq3q.org/pco/#fator_Media_Integrity_in_General
Alexander Azadgan Intro
No wikipedia, wikispooks or sourcewatch bios as of Fri 13 Oct 2017.
He’s an outspoken American of Iranian heritage.
http://katehon.com/person/alexander-azadgan
Alexander Azadgan is a multi-awarded professor of Strategic Global Management & International Political Economy. He is also a senior geopolitical analyst with Iran’s Press TV, Russia’s Sputnik Radio as well as other alternative global radio & TV outlets. His works also gets broadcasted on Russia’s Tsargrad TV. He comments on a wide variety of international relations, geo-socio-economic, cultural, religious & strategic geopolitical issues, especially those pertaining to the Middle East, North Africa, Eurasia, Europe & North America regions.
auto “bio sketch” at Orange Coast College
Alexander Azadgan’s youtube channel “Truth/ Justice/ Peace”
This fascinating Oct 2017 interview with Tony Gosling introduced him to me: UK’s ‘Dialect Radio’ interview, skip to 24:53
Tony Gosling Intro
https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/
http://www.bilderberg.org/tonyhom.htm
raw URLs to a few podcasts/mp3s: http://www.radio4all.net/files/tony@cultureshop.org.uk
This radio4all.net ‘program’ has some of his work:
http://www.radio4all.net/files/tony@cultureshop.org.uk
http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/Tony_Gosling
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/User:Tony_Gosling
https://www.facebook.com/tony.gosling.16
https://www.bilderberg.org/tonyhom.htm
https://www.unwelcomeguests.net/Special:WhatLinksHere/Tony_Gosling
https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2002/01/20785.html
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tony-gosling-748b4a1a/?ppe=1
Youtube Interview in May 2017, by wearechange.org
Robert David Steele intro
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Robert_Steele
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_David_Steele
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Robert_David_Steele
http://www.robertdavidsteele.com
work by Robert David Steele
https://www.amazon.com/Robert-David-Steele/e/B001K873R4
Biphasic sleep – “first sleep/second sleep”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biphasic_and_polyphasic_sleep
Ekirch has found that the two periods of night sleep were called “first sleep” (occasionally “dead sleep”) and “second sleep” (or “morning sleep”) in medieval England.
They would sleep for about four hours, wake up for two to three hours, then go back to bed for another four hours. They also took about two hours to fall asleep.
It appears it was common for humans to go to bed two hours after dusk, wake in the middle of the night for a couple of hours to smoke, talk, pray or even have sex, then go back to sleep until morning. It wasn’t until the 19th century that people began sleeping in one block.
https://www.marksdailyapple.com/biphasic-sleep/
Within an hour or so after sunset, persons retired to bed, slept for about 4 hours and then woke up. They remained awake for a few hours and then returned to sleep at about 2 am for another 4 hours or so. Written records from before the first century onward indicate that the period between first and second sleep afforded persons a chance for quiet contemplation, but persons also rose from bed during this interval and did household chores or visited with family and friends.
Black is Back Coalition
http://blackisbackcoalition.org/
https://www.facebook.com/bibcoalition/
Black is Back Coalition News
https://www.blackagendareport.com/bib_convention_self-determination
Gregory Ford intro
https://www.facebook.com/pg/GregFordWhistleblower/about/?ref=page_internal
https://gregoryfordblog.wordpress.com/
Gregory Ford articles and interviews
Iraqi WMD and Torture Bombshell: Greg Ford Interview by Barbara Honegger https://archive.org/details/GregFord28Min
Kevin Barrett interviews Gregory Ford
https://www.patreon.com/posts/greg-ford-us-9-14758650
https://www.patreon.com/posts/us-army-greg-wmd-14865123
Milwaukee Citizens Action
To pay and join MKE coop group: http://www.citizenactionwi.org/contribution_options
http://www.citizenactionwi.org/
https://www.facebook.com/CitizenActionWI
https://shepherdexpress.com/topics/citizen-action-wisconsin/
https://ballotpedia.org/Citizen_Action_of_Wisconsin
Nan Kim Intro
http://uwm.edu/history/people/kim-nan/
William Binney Intro
Likable/interesting former NSA senior technical director.
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/William_Binney
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney_(U.S._intelligence_official)
https://www.whistleblower.org/bio-william-binney-and-j-kirk-wiebe
articles or interviews by William Binney
https://progressivecommentaryhour.podbean.com/mf/play/83m3b8/PCHEdit_022718.mp3
On 2016 DNC Heak or Leak Issue:
https://sputniknews.com/us/201612141048568197-nsa-whistleblower-binney-cia-lying-russia/
https://consortiumnews.com/2016/12/12/us-intel-vets-dispute-russia-hacking-claims/
Alison Weir intro
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Alison_Weir
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Weir_(activist)
http://ifamericaknew.org/about_us/alisonweir.html
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alison_Weir
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/If_Americans_Knew
sample of work by Alison Weir
http://www.radio4all.net/files/tony@cultureshop.org.uk/2149-1-Dialect18July18TX.mp3
Skip in 29:49 for Alison Weir on history of Zionism, and origins of Israel.
https://archives.kpfa.org/data/20171025-Wed1300.mp3 - covers her visits to Israel, and history of Zionism.
https://www.amazon.com/Alison-Weir/e/B00IN5HV88/
Dirigism
http://tarpley.net/2010/07/14/de-gaulle-as-economic-dirigist/
https://www.britannica.com/topic/dirigisme
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirigisme
lifafterhate.org
Currently “vetting” this group.
Life After Hate Youtube Channel
http://portside.org/2017-08-27/life-after-hate-ex-extremists-combat-hate-one-one
Angela King intro - lifafterhate.org
[@HumRights4Peace](https://twitter.com/HumRights4Peace}
work by Angela King
WEB-BASED, GENDERED RECRUITMENT OF WOMEN BY ORGANIZED WHITE SUPREMACIST GROUPS
about Angela King
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4286678/Former-skinhead-Angela-King-converted-life-hate.html
Salvador Allende intro
articles about Salvador Allende
http://inthesetimes.com/article/20510/chile-socialist-salvador-allende-1973-coup/
Chilean President Salvador Allende was the first democratically-elected Marxist president in Latin America. Here is his final speech before his death in the U.S.-backed coup by Augusto Pinochet.
ISIS intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant
Al-Qaeda Intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda
Andrei Raevsky “the saker” intro
https://thesaker.is/tag/wikipedia/
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/'The_Saker'
http://russia-insider.com/en/users/saker
Autobiography: http://thesaker.is/submarines-in-the-desert-as-my-deepest-gratitude-to-you/
work by or about Andrei Raevsky
https://www.amazon.com/Andrei-Raevsky/e/B001JXHOXS
https://www.quora.com/Who-is-behind-the-blog-The-Vineyard-of-the-Saker
http://cirilizovano.blogspot.com/2015/11/who-is-saker.html
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article39964.htm
Mark Z Jacobson /climate/
https://profiles.stanford.edu/mark-jacobson
https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Z._Jacobson
example work by or about Mark Z Jacobson
Gilad Atzmon intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilad_Atzmon
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Gilad_Atzmon
example work by Gilad Atzmon
A controversial/challenging talk on political correctness, identity politics, the new left; with QA session: https://archives.kpfa.org/data/20171108-Wed1300.mp3
Books: https://www.amazon.com/Gilad-Atzmon/e/B0034NTS2Q/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1491351477&sr=8-1
2011+ Libya War Overview :libya
Nov 2018 https://progressivecommentaryhour.podbean.com/mf/play/cydntv/NewPCH_110817.mp3
Oct 2017 http://archives.kpfa.org/data/20161005-Wed1300.mp3
Mar 2015 Gary Null Interviews…
- Appreciate what Muammar Gaddafi did for Libya from 1969-2011.
Lessons from Libya: How Not to Intervene
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2016/allday131216.html
In September 2013, a Harvard University study stated that Gaddafi had not in fact targeted civilians or used indiscriminate force, that Islamists were indeed dominant in the ranks of rebel forces and that the intervention had not only dramatically increased the number of casualties in the conflict, but also exacerbated “human rights abuses, humanitarian suffering, Islamic radicalism, and weapons proliferation in Libya and its neighbors”.
Libya, more than anyone else’s war, was Hillary Clinton’s war. Barak Obama initially opposed it. Who was the person championing it? Hillary Clinton. That’s documented throughout her emails. She had put her favoured agent, Sidney Blumenthal, on to that; there’s more than 1700 emails out of the thirty three thousand Hillary Clinton emails that we’ve published, just about Libya. It’s not that Libya has cheap oil. She perceived the removal of Gaddafi and the overthrow of the Libyan state — something that she would use in her run-up to the general election for President.
James & Joanna Moriarty podcast
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Civil_War_(2011–present)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Civil_War_(2011)
Barry Seal Intro
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Barry_Seal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Seal
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/11/15/the-charmed-doomed-life-of-barry-seal/
Eugene Debs Intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs
The speech that lead to is imprisonment - skip to 35:17 - : http://thegarynullshow.podbean.com/mf/feed/vhy2q5/GaryNull_111717.mp3.
Udo Ulfkotte Intro
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Udo_Ulfkotte
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udo_Ulfkotte
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Udo_Ulfkotte
work by or about Udo Ulfkotte
Gekaufte Journalisten (Bought Journalists)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_x8_i15LB4
Youtube: Journalist Udo Ulfkotte: German Media PsyOps
http://americanfreepress.net/perpetual-war-and-the-global-media-psyop/
https://ersjdamoo.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/bought-journalism-update/
GE Mark I Reactors in USA - same containment design used at Fukushima
https://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/GE-reactors-Japan-UnitedStates/2011/03/14/id/389407
The Mark I has design problems, the NIRS has said.
"Some modifications have been made to U.S. Mark I reactors since 1986, although the fundamental design deficiencies remain," the NIRS said.
The following 23 U.S. plants have GE boiling-water reactors (GE models 2, 3 or 4) with the same Mark I containment design used at Fukushima, according to the NRC online database:
- Browns Ferry 1, Athens, Ala., operating license since 1973, reactor type GE 4
- Browns Ferry 2, Athens, Ala., 1974, GE 4
- Browns Ferry 3, Athens, Ala., 1976, GE 4
- Brunswick 1, Southport, N.C, 1976, GE 4.
- Brunswick 2, Southport, N.C., 1974, GE 4.
- Cooper, Brownville, Neb., 1974, GE 4.
- Dresden 2, Morris, Ill., 1970, GE 3.
- Dresden 3, Morris, Ill., 1971, GE 3.
- Duane Arnold, Palo, Iowa, 1974, GE 4.
- Fermi 2, Monroe, Mich., 1985, GE 4.
- FitzPatrick, Scriba, N.Y., 1974, GE 4.
- Hatch 1, Baxley, Ga., 1974, GE 4.
- Hatch 2, Baxley, Ga., 1978, GE 4.
- Hope Creek, Hancock's Bridge, N.J. 1986, GE 4.
- Monticello, Monticello, Minn., 1970, GE 3.
- Nine Mile Point 1, Scriba, N.Y., 1969, GE 2.
- Oyster Creek, Forked River, N.J., 1969, GE 2.
- Peach Bottom 2, Delta, Pa., 1973, GE 4.
- Peach Bottom 3, Delta, Pa., 1974, GE 4.
- Pilgrim, Plymouth, Mass., 1972, GE 3.
- Quad Cities 1, Cordova, Ill., 1972, GE 3.
- Quad Cities 2, Moline, Ill., 1972, GE 3.
- Vermont Yankee, Vernon, Vt., 1972, GE 4.
Plants from above near Milwaukee WI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_Generating_Station
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duane_Arnold_Energy_Center
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quad_Cities_Nuclear_Generating_Station
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi_Nuclear_Generating_Station
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monticello_Nuclear_Generating_Plant
Mark Sleboda Intro
https://www.facebook.com/gramsci
http://granews.info/content/mark-sleboda
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Sleboda
work by or about Mark Sleboda
https://therussianreader.com/tag/mark-sleboda/
https://sputniknews.com/voiceofrussia/by_author/204859157/
Example video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D_CnW4GXIc
https://thesaker.is/tag/mark-sleboda/
https://theinternationalreporter.org/tag/mark-sleboda/
James W Douglass Intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._Douglass
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/James_Douglass
work by or about James W Douglass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFK_and_the_Unspeakable
https://www.amazon.com/JFK-Unspeakable-Why-Died-Matters/dp/1439193886
http://jfkfacts.org/tag/james-douglass/
~2013 James Douglass interview
http://www.radio4all.net/files/jblankfort@earthlink.net/1752-1-totw112217_douglassinterview.mp3
- 07:20 “Bay of Pigs” review - JFK refused to take “bait” of “joint chiefs”. Before miss
- 09:01 At :09:33 “Cuban Missle Crisis: audio of meeting between JFK and Joint Chiefs”
- deepest darkness of Cuban missle crisis
- 3 way conspiracy for peace - JFK, Nikita Khrushchev, and ??
Frank Gardiner Wisner Intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wisner
USAID intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_International_Development
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/USAID
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S._Agency_for_International_Development
http://ifamericaknew.org/stat/usaid.html
City of Raqqa Syria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raqqa
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35.950000&lon=39.016700&z=12&m=w
news articles on Raqqa
https://twitter.com/sommervilletv/status/934373876938825728
2013 death at Henkel Aerospace in CA; 2017 Strike - Safety-Cond
Skip in 20:04: https://archives.kpfa.org/data/20171128-Tue1530.mp3 At 23:25 Strom Engineering scabs discussed.
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/11/26/18804887.php
Eight four Henkel Aerospace IAM 1584 workers went on strike on October 16, 2017 at Henkel’s Bay Point plant in California to protect their health and safety conditions at the plant that manufactures adhesives for Boeing and other airline companies. The company has prevented proper health and safety conditions which directly led to the death in 2013 of a temporary worker 26-year-old David Eleidjian who was also an ex-Marine.
backround articles on Strom Engineering
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/09/21/stee-s21.html
http://www.themilitant.com/2011/7533/753306.html
William F Pepper intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Francis_Pepper
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/William_Pepper
Martin Luther King Assassination
Work by or about William F Pepper
Sad that these links go stale, today Tue 10 Apr 2018 I had to comment out two of them.
MLK “wrongful death civil trial, King family vs. Loyd Jowers …”: http://noliesradio.org/archives/FB20090609%5FWilliam%5FPepper%5Fweb.mp3
http://archive.today/2015.02.02-043642/http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mlks-family-feels-vindicated/
2007 speech by Lawyer William F Pepper on US State Crimes Against Democracy: http://www.radio4all.net/files/cheryl%40ct911truth.org/4212-1-911WUC%5F20110120%5FPepper.mp3
Milwaukee Community Brainstorming
http://www.communitybrainstorming.org/about.html
Breakfast: 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Program: 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Dr. Pamela Malone
Department of Sociology, Milwaukee Area Technical College
Saint Matthew C.M.E. Church
2944 North 9th Street (Parking off 8th St. between Locust and Chambers)
Sat Nov 18 2017 Milwaukee Community Brainstorming panel on IMPLICIT RACIAL BIAS
Click here for mp3 audio of presentation
Speakers or Gov Office Holders
Judge Joseph Donald
Milwaukee County Circuit Court, Branch 2.
https://ballotpedia.org/Martin_Joseph_Donald
His talk: 01:40 - 16:40.
Test he took shown he (a black) is biased against blacks: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html.
His mother carefully taught him as young child how to behave in rich white peoples homes around white adults and children his age, as she worked as a housekeeper in Patrick Cudahy’s house. The freeway project forced a move as he grew up, causing a black migration - he describes the reaction of whites to new black neighbors. He thinks it can be strategic to use the word ‘biased’ instead of racist when appropriate. Yes there is “implicit bias”.
Ms. Nichole Yunk-Todd
Division Administrator, Milwaukee Youth Services
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nichole-yunk-todd-ba52302
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/people/nichole-yunk-todd/
http://www.aclu-wi.org/nichole-yunk-todd
Her talk starts 17:24, through 31:10
Topics: “automatic vs controlled thought processing”; “association tests”; “blackness associated w/fear, crime and poverty”; “sub dominate group”; “social cognition measurements”, ‘shooter bias’: association of black face with “shooter/gun holder”; “authority/decision makers”; “critical race theory”; judging “sub dominate group” group by it’s worst members, dominate group by it’s best.
Remedy: Decrease social distance. Increase high quality social interactions.
Dr. Harry Oden
Retired MPS Principal, Educational Consultant, Motivational Speaker.
http://uawards.umn.edu/honorary-degree-recipients/harry-oden
Starts 31:56, ends 53:18
Former basketball player - 1 of 3 blacks at Univ MN/ Duluth; 60+ but still athletic. Very ‘big on public schools’. Was discriminated against in MPS after college. MPS delayed hiring, once hire he was given “bad assignments”. Found his niche in MPS as teacher, and honored administrator; did much to mediate/reduce conflict among students, and between student factions, black and white. Judge a person by what is coming from their heart, not your first auto-impressions. Racism in education is as rampant as ever. Unfortunately education about profit now.
question and answer starts at 53:18
Tim Burns - WI Supreme Ct Candidate
Not a speaker, just one of several politicians there. Had good discussion w/him about economics.
Harvard Prof Michael Sandel - public debate on immigration
Civilized, well moderated, interesting public discussion of the immigration issue:
https://podcast-a.akamaihd.net/mp3/podcasts/ideas_20171128_47641.mp3
Skip to 46:06 for summary.
Harvard University political philosopher Michael Sandel
https://scholar.harvard.edu/sandel/home
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Sandel
Charles Hugh Smith intro
https://mises.org/profile/charles-hugh-smith
I am not a Mises/Austrian econ fan.
Work by or about Charles Hugh Smith
https://www.amazon.com/Charles-Hugh-Smith/e/B001K8B05U/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0
https://www.amazon.com/Leverage-Cheap-Money-Destroy-World/dp/1522697942
https://www.amazon.com/I-State-Lines-Charles-Hugh-Smith/dp/1579621279
Phyllis Bennis intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Bennis
http://fpif.org/authors/phyllis-bennis/
https://www.facebook.com/PhyllisBennis/
by or about Phyllis Bennis
http://www.ips-dc.org/ips-authors/phyllis-bennis/
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/phyllis-bennis
https://www.youtube.com/user/SEPupload
Ted Rall intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Rall
https://www.gocomics.com/ted-rall
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ted_Rall
https://www.creators.com/author/ted-rall
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/author/ted-rall
https://www.editorialcartoonists.com/cartoonists/rallt/
https://www.nndb.com/people/198/000026120/
https://www.commondreams.org/author/ted-rall
Work by or about ted rall
https://www.arcamax.com/politics/fromtheleft/tedrall/
Ted Rall (Author of “Snowden”) in Conversation with Paul Constant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isKS4SxIpE4
https://www.amazon.com/Ted-Rall/e/B000APJVX2%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
David North Intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_North_(socialist)
by or about David North
22 April 2016 - Beware of Anti-Union World Socialist Web Site
Jul 2009: http://internationalist.org/wherewasdavidnorth.html
book - A Quarter Century of War: The US Drive for Global Hegemony 1990 -2016
Socialist Equality Party (SEP)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Equality_Party_(United_States)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Youth_and_Students_for_Social_Equality
Trotskyism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trotskyism
Joe Lauria Intro
Work by or about Joe Lauria
https://consortiumnews.com/tag/joe-lauria/
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/joelauria-871
Has long bio also.
http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/how-i-lost/
“The Democratic Money Behind Russia-gate”
Peter J. Lavelle Intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lavelle
http://www.futurebrief.com/peterbio.asp
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/authors/peter-lavelle/
https://www.rt.com/onair-talent/peter-lavelle/
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Peter_Lavelle
https://www.facebook.com/peter.lavelle.338
https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-lavelle-73612047
Work by or about Peter J. Lavelle
http://rt.com/shows/crosstalk/
http://akarlin.com/2010/08/interview-peter-lavelle/
http://rt.com/op-edge/authors/peter-lavelle/
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/White_Helmets
Ron Jacobs
Did not find much specifically on Ron Jacobs.
Was alerted to him by this 90+ min video titled “Ron Jacobs presents: Revolution in the Air? The 1960s Become the 1970s and the S**t Hits the Fan”.
From the comments below the above video:
Ron Jacobs is a leftist activist, library worker and writer. His published works include The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground, a political crime fiction trilogy called The Seventies Series and a collection of essays and other musings titled Tripping Through the American Night. His articles, essays and reviews appear regularly in Counterpunch (online and print), Dissident Voice, and numerous other journals around the world.
By or about Ron Jacobs
Search Counterpunch for Ron Jacobs
https://www.facebook.com/ronjsbooks/timeline/
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/103169.Ron_Jacobs
https://www.amazon.com/Daydream-Sunset-The-60s-Counterculture/dp/069238961X
Who Did in the Counterculture? An Interview With Ron Jacobs
The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground
Milwaukee ISO
https://www.facebook.com/MilwaukeeISO/
Milwaukee ISO events
ISO / e International Socialist Organization.
https://socialistworker.org/get-involved
http://www.internationalsocialist.org/
By or about ISO
https://www.facebook.com/chicagosocialists/
Alan W Moore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_W._Moore
He is now focused on the Municipalist Movement. Prior to that he was involved or watching the ‘squatters’ in NYC.
With photo: https://about.me/alanwmoore
http://creativetime.org/summit/author/alan-w-moore/
Alan W. Moore is an art historian and activist whose work addresses cultural economies and groups and the politics of collectivity. Moore helped to found ABC No Rio after participating in Colab’s Real Estate Show (1979), one of the best-known artist squat actions in New York history. He is the author of Art Gangs: Protest & Counterculture in New York City (2011), which explores the work of artist groups formed after 1968, such as the Art Workers Coalition and Group Material, collectives that greatly informed today’s international art world. He is also the co-editor of the book ABC No Rio Dinero: The Story of a Lower East Side Art Gallery (1985). Moore earned a PhD in art history from the City University of New York and his writings have appeared in such publications as Julie Ault’s “Alternative Art NY” and Blake Stimson and Gregory Sholette “Collectivism After Modernism.”
https://everipedia.org/wiki/Alan_W._Moore/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-w-moore-34777918
Met him in Dec 2017 at a Milwaukee IWW meeting, and again at an ISO sponsored anti-Trump-tax-bill rally on Mon 18 Dec 2017. He handed out an issue of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpen_(magazine), which he edits.
By or about Alan W Moore
https://www.pcah.us/people/alan_w_moore
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Gangs-Protest-Counterculture-York/dp/1570272379
http://independent.academia.edu/AlanWMoore
http://creativetime.org/summit/2011/09/23/alan-w-moore/ Video on ‘squats’.
https://sites.google.com/site/housemagicbfc/
Municipalist Movement
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2016-11-29/is-america-ready-for-a-municipalist-movement/
http://occuprop.blogspot.com/2017/02/where-does-municipalism-come-from-ii.html
Warning: This Chicago based, “lumpen” site is a single-page style website, slow to load, and without many internal links, so you may need to adjust your reading style: http://www.lumpen.com/ Search it for “Issue #130 • Summer 2017”. Near there you should see an article titled “Building a Municipal Movement”. “Lumpen mag” has Alan W Moore as one of the editors.
Here is a snip from the Fall 2017 hardcopy of “Lumpen mag”:
The proxmity of local governments to the people makes them the best opportunity we have to take the change from the streets to the institutions. Cities have always been a place of encounter, of exchange of ideas, of innovation, and when necessary, of revolution.
lumpen-radio may or may not be on the air?:
Dr Amos N. Wilson intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_N._Wilson
By or about Amos N. Wilson.
Speech that spurred my interest, skip in 23:38 for intro, speech starts at 27:45: http://www.radio4all.net/files/CPRmetro@gmail.com/4910-2-WUC_12-19-2017_(B).mp3
http://www.afromerica.com/knowledge/culture/history/amoswilson.php
Robert Scheer intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Scheer
https://www.kcrw.com/people/robert-scheer
By or about Robert Scheer
This ‘On Contact’ audio interview by Chris Hedges prompted me to look into Bob Scheer; skip in 3:29: http://www.radio4all.net/files/CPRmetro@gmail.com/4910-2-WUC_12-19-2017_(B).mp3
See it on youtube - Oct 29 2017 On Contact: The Silencing of the Left with Robert Scheer
https://www.thenation.com/authors/robert-scheer-0/
https://www.amazon.com/Robert-Scheer/e/B0034PCMIG
https://www.democracynow.org/2005/11/14/la_times_fires_longtime_progressive_columnist
Dr Victoria Sweet intro
https://www.victoriasweet.com/
https://www.victoriasweet.com/news/blog/
By or about Dr Victoria Sweet
Dr. Victoria Sweet: “God’s Hotel” | Talks at Google
https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2017/11/27/bay-area-physician-victoria-sweets-crusade-for-slow-medicine/
https://healthyhildegard.com/victoria-sweet/
TODO/validate: http://profiles.ucsf.edu/victoria.sweet
Chiang Kai-shek
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek
Dr Howard H. Wayne
about or by Dr Howard H. Wayne
book “DO YOU REALLY NEED BYPASS SURGERY? A SECOND OPINION”
http://www.al7fs.us/DrWayne.html
Interview: https://archives.kpfa.org/data/20171226-Tue1300.mp3
http://www.buzzfile.com/business/Noninvasive-Heart-Center-619-544-0200
http://www.montefiore.org/noninvasive-diagnostic-testing
heartmath; heart rate variability
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_rate_variability
https://www.youtube.com/user/HeartMathInstitute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdneZ4fIIHE
http://www.pbs.org/bodyandsoul/203/heartmath.htm
David Wolfe intro /vegan diet/
http://www.thefullwiki.org/David_Wolfe_(vegan)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ2G63BEesM
http://vitalitymagazine.com/article/david-wolfes-top-ten-superfoods/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1556437765/?tag=mh0b-20&hvadid=7009939018&hvqmt=b&hvbmt=bb&hvdev=c
7 countries in 5 years General Wesley Clark
General Wesley Clark: Wars Were Planned - Seven Countries In Five Years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RC1Mepk_Sw
General Wesley Clark: The US will attack 7 countries in 5 years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUCwCgthp_E
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/duplicates/5oeey2/general_wesley_clark_wars_were_planned_seven/
Manfred Petritsch Alias “Freemann” intro
http://alles-schallundrauch.blogspot.co.at/
http://inrur.net/wiki/Manfred_Petritsch
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5101201/
work by or about Manfred Petritsch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1sQLNm9FFw
Aesthetic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics
Asceticism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asceticism
mercantilist Jean-Baptiste Colbert
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Colbert
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Baptiste-Colbert
https://mises.org/library/jean-baptiste-colbert-and-louis-xiv
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colbertism
https://www.reviewessays.com/History-Other/Jean-Baptiste-Colbert-Case/68739.html
http://www.thefullwiki.org/Jean_Baptiste_Colbert
quick review of video conference call tools
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleconference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conference_call
https://fitsmallbusiness.com/best-free-conference-call-service/
freeconferencecall.com for group meetings | dialup or web permlink-freeconferencecall
In 2019 freeconferencecall.com, seems the best choice for group meetings/conferences using either: landline phones; or desktop/laptop web-browser-calls; or their smart phone app.
I suggest leadership, as in co-chairs/committee chairs, register a free personal account with freeconferencecall.com, and start hosting monthly meetings with it. For each account you get a dial up number and a stable/memorable URL ( e.g. https://join.freeconferencecall.com/erin_michael_fox ). As the freeconferencecall.com account owner you ‘start’ the meeting.
I made an ‘organizational’ account [ login as ask-me-for-this-name@gmail.com ] – a minor advantage is we could share this account amongst meeting chairs, and then have only one dialup number; still, you may want to “keep it simple”, and use your own account.
Everyone that wants to see or do screen sharing, or use video conferencing during meetings should register a free account; otherwise they can use the dialup number.
freeconferencecall supports landlines or web conference calls; and most of the other features we need; for free as I understand now.
supports land line phones
does not require software client; web URL works ( works fine on linux also )
supports full audio/video web access if you register a free account with them
web camera /video conferencing supported
screen share supported
hub/host spoke/client model; host can selectively force mic muting
group chat supported
“capture and archive your screen sharing session, audio conference and primary video feed using the video recording feature.”
1GB free storage; history kept of prior meeting metadata
“Play previously recorded audio, video and screen sharing conferences or show documents and files during live meetings.”
no end to end encryption; do they sell our data?
license/eula: TODO
freeconferencecall web-users can avoid the extra charges and hassle of freeconferencecall dialup calls:
** freeconferencecall mobile/dial-up calls via T-mobile cost extra
** freeconferencecall mobile/dial-up via google voice cost extra
** freeconferencecall mobile/dial-up via voip users may fail – rings and then ‘blocks’ in silence
Follow this link, then scroll down: https://www.freeconferencecall.com/features
freeconferencecall Not free for phone carriers | impacts t-mobile plans for example
If you use an audio only (mobile or ll) phone connection to the meeting your phone carrier will be charged. This is not the case if you use the web client or app which routes audion through your data plan/Internet – then it is free.
The company makes its money by routing non-toll-free calls through lesser-used exchanges around the country for a small fee provided by the exchange provider. That’s because most of us have national calling plans where the cost of the call is included. But the traffic is valuable for the exchange because they get a fraction of a cent from the carriers for every minute that an incoming call connects through them.
https://zoom.us
- free/unlimited for 1:1 meetings
- free plan has 40 mins limit on group meetings
- supports land line telephones
- requires software client for linux
- video conferencing and screen share supported
- to host a meeting you must create a free account with zoom
- hub/host spoke/client model; host can selectively force mic muting
- no end to end encryption; do they sell our data?
- license/eula: TODO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Video_Communications
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/sections/200277708-Frequently-Asked-Questions
Has MP4 or M4A local recording feature. TODO/explain.
https://www.uberconference.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UberConference
- “lack of video support” / no video conferencing
- up to ten users for free on a call
- supports landlines
- hub spoke model - host person must start the meeting
- host can mute selected participants
- screen/desktop sharing
- text chat
- no end to end encryption; do they sell our data?
- license/eula: TODO
google hangouts
- must have google account; web URL
- works w/phone HANGOUTS app
- peer to peer (democratic) model; no host node; no centralized audio mute
- supports permanent named or anonymous chat rooms (“hangouts”)
- free
- video conferencing
- up to 10 people??
- google says google hangouts is going away in 2019 (unclear what this means)
- does not support landlines
- text chat
- no end to end encryption; do they sell our data?
- license/eula: TODO
discord evaluation
Discord is a gamer inspired alternative to slack. Slack was based on 1990s IRC chat. Discord provides text and voice channels, and video calls. The free version of discord seems to provide more features than slack. The discord license is troubling.
Good tool, but concerned about the license.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discord_(software)
It provides encryption, but apparently not end to end encryption?
I need to re evaluate my bias against discord – not sure if it is warranted.
https://medium.com/@safyrelyons/discord-might-sell-data-but-for-other-reasons-possibly-31aafbaaf684
When you interact with us […] we may collect information from you […]
any messages, images[…] or other content you send via the chat feature
https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/57rurj/privacy_policy_seems_to_allow_selling_of_data/
it may be in their business model to track our input words to anonymize them and then sell to advertisers;
[…]
Discord probably sells all the voice data to google (and probably to anyone who pays the price)
https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/8disa5/i_hate_discord_the_program/
Designed for gamer community, not business; but that should not deter us.
matrix using riot client
Advanced, 1.0 version released in June 2019; somewhat challenging for non tech people.
Provides end to end encryption.
We’re watching riot/matrix for possible future (not immediate) use.
Free Telephone Conference Calls Not Free (T-Mobile)
Conference bridge call: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conference_call
Keep in mind, my focus here is on using your land line or mobile phone to join a freeconferencecall.com meeting; their web based client is entirely free.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/7pl92y/charges_for_conference_calls_started_recently_why/
Google voice can’t be charged due to a court ruling so they blocked those numbers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_pumping … https://www.fcc.gov/general/traffic-pumping
https://www.tmonews.com/2016/10/t-mobile-0-01-per-minute-charge-calls-out-of-plan-phone-numbers/
https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/562w2i/extra_charge_for_calls_to_freeconferencecallcom/
DIY Linux: http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/post/telecom_tips_building_your_own.html
http://telejunctions.com/freebridge.cfm
HANGOUTS video calls HOWTO / group meetings
To prepare for the HANGOUTS video meeting, login to the google account that will be used in the meeting. One way to do that is open up gmail and login, otherwise goto https://myaccount.google.com/.
Next open up your google chrome browser and go to
Make a bookmark of that URL, for the next meeting.
Prepare the sound on your computer. Ideally you use ear buds with a built in microphone, to minimize echo or feedback. You should test your sound. If you do not use ear buds, you may need to mute your microphone as a rule when not talking.
If you are there before the call has started, you may wait until the host calls you; or start a hangouts chat with the host to get instructions – use their google acct email address to start the chat.
If the host provided a URL to join the chat room for the meeting, paste that into your browser and the text chat window should open. If the upper left you should see a green video camera icon – click on that to join the video call. If you still have trouble, then call or text for help.
google HANGOUTS setup for video or voice calls, sms texting
Purpose: introduce HANGOUTS for desktop or phone.
Scope: setup of HANGOUTS on laptop/desktop or phone via google’s chrome browser for chats, or google video calls.
HANGOUTS features:
- Nothing to download for desktop/laptop use, runs in chrome browser: https://hangouts.google.com.
- can make permanent group chat/video rooms with permanent links
- Linux friendly - I use it w/the Fedora linux distro.
- Chat histories are saved online - forever. HANGOUTS histories saved, can restart old HANGOUT weeks later.
- Google voice incoming/outgoing calls, (SMS) texting to any phone number, google chat w/other HANGOUTS members.
- Google video calls, which allow desktop sharing (desktop-desktop or phone-phone)
- Multi-column display of sms/texting chats, can manage several texting sessions at a time on one https://hangouts.google.com tab.
- Supports group sms/texts, group video or voice calls.
- Record a HANGOUT session for youtube later or share it live.
- Invite new party to a HANGOUT via a URL.
- Can determine if a fellow hangouts member is online or active.
- Integrated w/youtube - shows youtube player for each youtube URL you paste into chat.
- Call or text any phone from your desktop or laptop.
- emoji
- Drag and drop images into conversation.
- Integration with google docs.
- Bypass call-minutes restrictions in your call plan. Convert all calls to data; use “HANGOUTs dialer” phone app to make calls; “HANGOUTS app” to receive calls.
- Integration w/audio/phone teleconference app: https://www.uberconference.com/.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=google+HANGOUTS+features&ia=web
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Hangouts
skype comparison: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=skype+vs+hangouts&ia=web HANGOUTS is integrated w/google business apps, and youtube. Skype is less Linux friendly.
FACETIME comparison: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=facetime+vs+hangouts&ia=web facetime only runs on Apple/IOS.
TODO - zoom comparison.
First step is to create a google account.
load the HANGOUTS app on your phone
google HANGOUTS is a free phone app available for Android and IOS.
These web search may help you find the app for an Apple iphone/IOS.
In Feb 2018 this was a good link to the HANGOUTS app of your iphone.
google HANGOUTS is also available as a URL in your desktop/laptop chrome browser:
https://hangouts.google.com (be sure to bookmark this)
The HANGOUTS app icon is a green double-quotes symbol, as in: ”. The phone app can do almost every thing the desktop version can. It’s fun to walk around w/your phone in a video call.
install google’s chrome browser on laptop or desktop
Best support on the desktop/pc for HANGOUTS is w/ the google chrome browser.
make a favorite or bookmark for https://hangouts.google.com
google undersells HANGOUTS on the desktop; so if you do not make a bookmark, and put it somewhere so you can find it your liable to forget how to start it up. Once it’s up I just leave there 24/7 as one of my first pinned tabs in chrome.
sound headphones/mic hardware for laptop/desktop
For a google video or desktop/laptop audio phone call - you can get a set of ear buds with a tiny microphone for about $20. These ear bud/microphone combos work fine. They have a 3.5mm plug with 4 conductors (ground, left, right, and mic). They typically plug into your laptop (you may need a mic/earphone splitter adaptor for your PC).
Also if you buy ear buds w/mic, ‘skullcandy’ brand has a 2 year warranty, so save the receipt; typically they go bad after less then 2 years of moderate to heavy use, since the wires get flexed so much.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_connector_(audio)
sound and camera settings setup for laptop/desktop
These steps vary depending on your OS, so I leave the details to you.
Most laptops have webcams built in. You can buy a USB cabled webcam for around $25 (e.g. Logictech) and connect it to your laptop or desktop. You can get along without any webcam, but of course you need a mic and speaker or ear buds.
For a laptop or desktop, sound can be challenging. Suggest you buy ear buds at Target for about $20 that have a mic.
To prepare for a audio or video call take some time to review how to check your
- input selection settings - so your mic is enabled
- learn how to mute your mic – very imp for conference calls
- mic input level settings
- audio out settings so sound is going to your headphones
- enable web camera / test web camera
Testing your mic and sound on laptop/desktop
- Add 631-791-8378 to your google contacts (address book) by going to https://contacts.google.com/ . Put “sound test/phone test” in as the contact name. Go to https://hangouts.google.com/, click on the phone icon at the left, and then click on the “+ New Conversation” icon and search for “phone test”. Use your computer to call this number, and you will be able to record and play back your voice to test your mic and sound.
‘forever link’ for a future HANGOUT meeting
You may create a link that allows anyone with the link to join a future video/audio hangout conference meeting. To make a ‘forever link’ for a future HANGOUT meeting go to:
You may name this HANGOUT, and the name is long lasting. In future you can join this hangout using “start conversation” > HANGOUT-NAME-HERE
In the new window click on ‘COPY LINK…’. You may now close this tab.
Save the link you copied to your clipboard to an email or your calendar. Test it once - it should open an empty hangout; then close it. You may use and reuse this link for your next meeting(s) - send the link in your meeting invite.
https://plus.google.com/+CheeChew/posts/d62KMkSpU3d
Muting your mic or blocking your webcam
Once the google video call is in progress, within the main window that shows the video, move your mouse to the lower center, and a mic and webcam icon should show up. These are on/off (mute) toggles.
You can see when others have muted their mic – helpful for cases when they are unaware of this.
misc google hangouts tips
HANGOUTS Help forum: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/hangouts
https://support.google.com/hangouts/?hl=en#topic=6386410
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/hangouts
https://gsuite.google.com/learning-center/tips/hangouts/
https://gsuite.google.com/learning-center/products/meet/cheat-sheet/
https://www.ditoweb.com/blog/2014/04/10-great-tips-for-using-google-hangouts-2/
finding people for a HANGOUT or chat; establishing access; invites
As a rule the google people finder may not find valid gmail addresses or google account names (Fname Lname for ex); do not be discouraged by this - not sure what allows accounts to be found - possibly these settings. The safest approach for a new/1st time HANGOUTS connection is either to connect through their fulling specified (ie do not expect in auto completion) email address or the phone number they gave to google.
To start a chat or a HANGOUT with a new person:
Click on ‘+ New Conversation’, enter their email or phone number, then the default is you “invite them” and you wait until they accept - could take days. The exception is that you connect w/them right away - this happens when the your you are connected to has adjusted their settings.
- ‘+ New Conversation’ add by:
- EMAIL ADDRESS. Google will not auto complete the address, you must know full address.
- PHONE NUMBER if email not known
- this fails: invite by NAME (as in FirstName LastName ) may not work. Once they the have accepted however ‘FirstName LastName’ is they way you add them into a conversation - yes it is confusing. See making yourself easy to connect to.
If you do not connect right away, but the “invite goes through”, and you have to wait for their response, you should take the time to make a note of the FIRSTNAME LASTNAME that is displayed in the banner line of the window within which the invite is made.
Once they accept, they will show up in your hangouts list as “FIRSTNAME LASTNAME” which may or may not be consistent with their email; so it’s best to “take notes” of the respective email / “FIRSTNAME LASTNAME” values.
It seems accounts may be visible in a HANGOUT you’re part of, but “unfindable”. Last night I was in a HANGOUT and I carefully copied two names of people listed in the hangout (one a gmail address, the other a FIRSTNAME LASTNAME) , I was unable to ‘find’ those people searching by FIRSTNAME LASTNAME via:
after the hangout was closed.
I believe the solution is to mkae a 1 to 1 ‘+ New Conversation’ with these people to establish a 1:1 trust.
make it easier to reach you in HANGOUTS
(updated on Thu 18 Oct 2018 10:42:30 AM CDT )
People unfamiliar w/HANGOUTS may never connect to others trying to reach them, because google invites first and the invitee must read the invite and approve. Below is a way to speed this up - it has not caused spam for me as a rule, and this can be un-done at any time.
make it easier to reach you in HANGOUTS (avoids invitation delays)
- In upper left click on the 3 parallel horizontal lines (hamburger menu).
- settings > Customize invite settings
If you select “Customized”
( tested on Thu 18 Oct 2018 )
The defaults are good. I was able able to connect via
+ New conversation > EMAIL_ADDRESS
Suggest you use this “Customized” setting w/o changing any defaults.
You may now stop reading if you selected “Customized”.
It should also allow connects directly using phone number. (not tested)
If you Select “Recommended”
People with your phone number and people with your email address can
contact you directly, everyone else can send you invitations.
I have not tested this.
https://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/10-tricks-to-master-google-hangouts-1756833921
Hangouts includes a variety of settings that govern whether or not people can get in touch with you if they know information such as your email address and mobile number. You can tweak these options if you want to make it easier or more difficult for people to find you on Hangouts.
In Gmail, click the down arrow next to your name. In the Chrome Hangouts app, click the menu button in the top left corner. Select Customize invite settings to make changes. You can choose to allow conversations at any time, allow invitations, or block everything (if people don’t have your contact information).
Checking/Accepting HANGOUTS invitations
video-help on accepting hangouts-invites
Phone, Desktop or Laptop:
- On phone just open HANGOUTS app; on computer go to https://hangouts.google.com and login to google.
- In upper left click on the 3 parallel horizontal lines (hamburger menu).
- select ‘invites’
Inviting NewPerson to HANGOUTS
On desktop open http://hangouts.google.com and select ‘New Conversation’ in upper left.
- Enter NewPerson’s email address – it will not auto complete, so you
have to manually enter all letters. You can also connect via phone number,
but I suggest using email address; ie email associated w/their google account.
check HANGOUTS, sms, and chat history, re-start old HANGOUT
- Go to https://hangouts.google.com and login to google.
- In upper left click on the 3 parallel horizontal lines (hamburger menu).
- select ‘Conversations’
HANGOUTS Help Forum permalink
see also: https://support.google.com/plus/?hl=en#topic=6320382
How to share out your desktop in a video call
In the initial chat window from which you started the call, ie the one that has avatars of the participants in the call:
Click on the avatar that represents the person you want to share out your desktop to … A window should pop up, showing this person’s webcam/video view.
Ensure that this window is not full screen. Suggest you resize it so it takes up about 25% of your screen area. If it is full screen size you may end up with ‘video feedback’.
Move your mouse to upper right of this window, then there should be a vertical column of three dots – click on those ‘three dots’ and follow the prompt to “Share screen”.
freeconferencecall setup/how to
I suggest all WIGP and GMGP committee chairs create a free account with freeconferencecall.com, and start hosting monthly meetings with it. The National GP is using it, I have experience with it in other groups also.
Everyone that wants to see or do screen sharing, and use video conferencing should also make an account. Otherwise people without an account may join meetings with any phone, including a landline.
It supports landlines or web conference calls; and most of the other features we need; all for free.
- supports land line phones
- does not require software client for linux; web URL works
- supports full audio/video web access if you register a free account with them
- web camera /video conferencing supported
- screen share supported
- hub/host spoke/client model; host can selectively force mic muting
- chat supported
- “capture and archive your screen sharing session, audio conference and primary video feed using the video recording feature.”
- 1GB free storage; history kept of prior mtg metadata
- “Play previously recorded audio, video and screen sharing conferences or show documents and files during live meetings.”
- no end to end encryption; do they sell our data?
- license/eula: TODO
scroll down: https://www.freeconferencecall.com/features
Max Keiser intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Keiser
YouTube Channel: “Max Keiser TV”
https://www.facebook.com/maxkeiser
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacy_Herbert
Stacy Herbert
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacy_Herbert
Dr. Stephen Phinney intro
https://www.virtahealth.com/about/phinney
http://www.artandscienceoflowcarb.com/jeff-steve/
https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb-living-dr-stephen-phinney
Work by or about Dr. Stephen Phinney
Dr. Stephen Phinney - ‘Recent Developments in LCHF and Nutritional Ketosis’ (Part 1): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8uSv6OgHJE
book: http://www.artandscienceoflowcarb.com/
https://blog.virtahealth.com/sodium-nutritional-ketosis-keto-flu-adrenal-function/
What they reported was that people consuming less than 4 grams of sodium per day had a sharply increasing risk of death, almost doubling when they got down to 2 grams/day of sodium. In contrast, with higher sodium intakes, the risk of death rose very slowly beginning with intakes above 6 grams/day.
ANSWER Coalition - Act Now to Stop War and End Racism
http://www.answercoalition.org/who_we_are
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/A.N.S.W.E.R.
Brian Becker intro
http://www.keywiki.org/Brian_Becker
Brian Becker. is the National Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition and a leader of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Becker has been a central organizer of the mass anti-war demonstrations that have taken place in Washington, D.C. over the past decade. [1]
https://sputniknews.com/authors/brian_becker/
https://twitter.com/BrianBeckerDC
familiarity: Since Jan 2018.
work by or about Brian Becker
Canceled in Oct 2020: https://sputniknews.com/radio_loud_and_clear/ Co-host was John Kiriakou.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/loud-amp-clear-canceled-keep-brian-becker-on-air
https://sputniknews.com/authors/brian_becker/
https://www.facebook.com/Loudandclearbrianbecker/
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:The_Truth_About_the_Situation_in_Libya
book: “Storming the Gates: How the Russian Revolution Changed the World”
Video interview about the book http://liberationschool.org/brian-becker-on-empire-files-what-the-russian-revolution-proved-possible/
Nationbuilder Community Support
My goal was to find websites, mailing lists, IRC channels, or meetup groups; ie find the free/open community of users that uses Nationbuilder. After about 45 min I punt, at least for now - Tue 23 Jan 2018. It appears to be a “somewhat closed” disjointed set of users – perhaps they mostly pay consultants to setup their Nationbuilder sites? It’s also challenging to come up with appropriate search terms since Nationbuilder is itself a CMS / portal.
key Nationbuilder links
http://nationbuilder.com/support
https://www.reddit.com/r/nationbuilder/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/nationbuilder/
https://twitter.com/nationbuilder
https://www.youtube.com/user/nationbuilder
https://plus.google.com/+NationBuilder Was not helpful to me.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/nationbuilder/
twitRSS feed: https://twitrss.me/twitter_search_to_rss/?term=%23nationbuilder
Developers/Nationbuilder “partners only” (aargh): https://Nationbuilder.slack.com
Suggestions/Issues with Nationbuilder code
http://nationbuilder.com/suggest
Nationbuilder Users’ Groups, meetup group, nationbuilder communities
This https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nationbuilder+users%27+groups&ia=web may or may not help.
Consultants
http://nationbuilder.com/opportunities_for_consultants
http://nationbuilder.com/experts
http://www.socialbenchers.com/
See their ‘Why NationBuilder’ link.
https://timwayne.nationbuilder.com/who_we_are
https://backofficethinking.com/nationbuilder-certified-experts
tools
https://ineffyble.github.io/nationtweaker/
John Kiriakou intro
familiarity: since Oct 2017
http://www.johnkiriakou.com/media-news/loud-and-clear-2017/
http://www.johnkiriakou.com/about/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kiriakou
First CIA agent to publicly step forward and describe to the media the CIA’s established use of waterboarding as an interrogation tactic.
Kiriakou is a founding member of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.[20] In September 2015, Kiriakou and 27 other members of VIPS steering group wrote a letter to the President challenging a recently published book, that claimed to rebut the report of the United States Senate Intelligence Committee on the Central Intelligence Agency's use of torture.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-kiriakou-aba6711/
https://www.facebook.com/johnckiriakou/
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/John_Kiriakou
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Kiriakou
by or about John Kiriakou
Walter Cronkite after Vietnam Tet Offensive
creating google account
Pretty straightforward, just go to https://accounts.google.com. In the normal case a gmail address is created for you as part of the process.
In Jan 2018, they still allow dormant accounts to persist for years. I find this a plus.
new google account without gmail address
You make a new google account w/o creating a gmail email, but you still have to register a new google account – using your non google email address in the process. Watch carefully, early on they give you the option of using a non gmail email address.
People that want to invite you to HANGOUTS may do so using the non gmail email address which is associated with your google account.
space weather, solar activity, radio interference
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/radio-communications
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/phenomena/solar-flares-radio-blackouts
Caitlin Johnstone intro
familiarity: found in Feb 2018
per consortiumnews:
**Caitlin Johnstone is a rogue journalist, poet, and utopia prepper who publishes regularly at Medium. Follow her work on Facebook, Twitter: @caitoz, or her website. She has a podcast and a new book Woke: A Field Guide for Utopia Preppers.
https://www.patreon.com/caitlinjohnstone
by or about Caitlin Johnstone
https://www.amazon.com/caitlin-johnstone/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Acaitlin%20johnstone
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newcoldwar.org%2F+%22Caitlin+Johnstone%22&ia=web
critics
https://www.mintpressnews.com/caitlin-johnstone-and-thought-crimes-on-the-left/229903/
Kent State Student Shootings
Feb 2018/ongoing, Russiagate; reactions to Nunes Memo; to Mueller indictment
Trying to collect thoughtful/in depth viewpoints on both sides. Undoubtably propaganda on both sides; I’m not pro Trump, nor am I a Russiaphobe.
This is an on going collection of articles - new ones will be prepended.
https://consortiumnews.com/2018/05/18/making-excuses-for-russiagate/
He (Putin) was merely at a table at which Putin happened to sit down for “maybe five minutes, maybe twenty, tops,” according to Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein who was just a few chairs away. No words were exchanged, Stein says, and “[n]obody introduced anybody to anybody. There was no translator. The Russians spoke Russian. The four people who spoke English spoke English.”
Stephen F Cohen on origins of Russiagate: Started by Brennan/CIA in 2015, later hands off to Clapper/FBI.
Russiagate or Intelgate? by Cohen 2/7/2018
Steele’s dossier… was the foundational document of the Russiagate narrative…from the time its installments began to be leaked to the American media in the summer of 2016, to the US ‘Intelligence Community Assessment’ of January 2017….the dossier and subsequent ICA report remain the underlying sources for proponents of the Russiagate narrative of “Trump-Putin collision.
….when, and by whom, was this Intel operation against Trump started?
In testimony to the House Intelligence Committee in May 2017, John Brennan, formerly Obama’s head of the CIA, strongly suggested that he and his agency were the first, as The Washington Post put it at the time, ‘in triggering an FBI probe.’ Certainly both the Post and The New York Times interpreted his remarks in this way. Equally certain, Brennan played a central role in promoting the Russiagate narrative thereafter, briefing members of Congress privately and giving President Obama himself a top-secret envelope in early August 2016 that almost certainly contained Steele’s dossier. Early on, Brennan presumably would have shared his ‘suspicions’ and initiatives with James Clapper, director of national intelligence. FBI Director Comey… may have joined them actively somewhat later….
When did Brennan begin his ‘investigation’ of Trump? His House testimony leaves this somewhat unclear, but, according to a subsequent Guardian article, by late 2015 or early 2016 he was receiving, or soliciting, reports from foreign intelligence agencies regarding ‘suspicious “interactions” between figures connected to Trump and known or suspected Russian agents.’ In short, if these reports and Brennan’s own testimony are to be believed, he, not the FBI, was the instigator and godfather of Russiagate.
By Mike whitney on 2/14: http://www.eurasiareview.com/14022018-is-john-brennan-the-mastermind-behind-russiagate-oped/
we don’t really know the extent to which the dossier was used in the creation of the Intelligence Community Assessment. (The ICA was the IC’s flagship analysis that was supposed to provide ironclad proof of Russian meddling in the 2016 elections.) According to some reports, the contribution was significant. Check out this excerpt from an article at Business Insider:
Intelligence officials purposefully omitted the dossier from the public intelligence report they released in January about Russia’s election interference because they didn’t want to reveal which details they had corroborated, according to CNN.
Bottom line: Despite the denials of former-CIA Director John Brennan, the dossier may have been used in the ICA.
Regular readers of this column know that we have always believed that the Russiagate psyops originated with Brennan. Just as the CIA launched its disinformation campaigns against Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gadhafi, so too, Russia has emerged as Washington’s foremost rival requiring a massive propaganda campaign to persuade the public that America faces a serious external threat. In any event, the demonizing of Russia had already begun by the time Hillary and Co. decided to hop on the bandwagon by blaming Moscow for hacking John Podesta’s emails. The allegations were never persuasive, but they did provide Brennan with some cover for the massive Information Operation (IO) that began with him
It all started with Brennan. After Putin blocked Brennan’s operations in both Ukraine and Syria, Brennan had every reason to retaliate and to use the tools at his disposal to demonize Putin and try to isolate Russia. The “election meddling” charges (promoted by the Hillary people) fit perfectly with Brennan’s overall strategy to manipulate perceptions and prepare the country for an eventual confrontation. It provided him the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, to deliver a withering blow to Putin and Trump at the very same time. The temptation must have been irresistible.
A counterview/more mainstream - home run for Mueller; trouble for Trump, hour+ show: http://tarpley.net/audio/WCR-20180217.mp3 Tarpley might be an Anglophobe, but he is not blindly anti Russian. I still have respect for Tarpley, but sense he has changed roughly starting around the time Trump’s wife sued him.
http://www.unz.com/mwhitney/did-trump-cut-a-deal-on-the-collusion-charge/
it looks to me like Trump may have made a deal to support the attacks on Russia provided he is acquitted on charges of collusion.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/indictments-by-mueller-very-embarrassing-for-democratic-party/5629595
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/02/18/result-mueller-investigation-nothing.html
The link of the plot to Putin is reduced to the allegation that the plot was financed by a St. Petersburg restauranteur whose connection to Putin is that his business once catered official dinners between Russian officials and foreign dignitaries.
long read: http://theduran.com/mueller-indictment-discredits-trump-dossier/
Ray McGovern. : https://consortiumnews.com/2018/02/19/nunes-fbi-and-doj-perps-could-be-put-on-trial/
One glaring sign of the media’s unwillingness to displease corporate masters and Official Washington is the harsh reality that Hersh’s most recent explosive investigations, using his large array of government sources to explore front-burner issues, have not been able to find a home in any English-speaking newspaper or journal.
Nunes covered a number of other significant issues:
The committee is closing down its investigation into possible
collusion between Moscow and the Trump campaign; no evidence of
collusion was found.
The apparently widespread practice of “unmasking” the
identities of Americans under surveillance. On this point, Nunes
said, “In the last administration they were unmasking hundreds,
and hundreds, and hundreds of Americans’ names. They were
unmasking for what I would say, for lack of a better definition,
were for political purposes.”
I’m weary of Larouchepac, but I think this article is worth vetting/reading: https://larouchepac.com/20180219/robert-mueller-indicts-some-russian-trolls-indictment-scams-american-people
The U.S. has no extradition treaty with Russia, and the Russian Constitution bars extradition of Russian citizens.
Russiagate’s initial narrative, that Russians hacked the DNC and John Podesta’s email accounts to damage the Clinton campaign and elect Trump, has been discredited by the work of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. William Binney, a former technical director of the NSA, states that if such Russian hacking occurred, the NSA would have the evidence of it and would have found a way to produce it. The VIPS also conducted a scientific experiment demonstrating that the source of the WikiLeaks DNC emails was a leak, not a hack.
The United States has intervened in elections all over the world, repeatedly, and, as James Woolsey recently said on Fox News, for the “good of those nations.” When someone is elected who we don’t like, like Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine, we simply launch a coup using such native assets as neo-Nazi shock troops (Ukraine) or Al-Qaeda and other Islamic terrorists (Syria).
At the beginning of 2014, an anti-Russian group of hackers, initially called “The Anonymous International,” and later, “Shaltay-Boltay” claimed that the building at St. Petersburg, Savushkina 55, housed a troll farm run by the Kremlin. Since then, this building has been photographed and highlighted endlessly by MI6, all of the British press and tabloids, the CIA, the FBI, NATO, the BBC, the State Department’s propaganda departments and NGOs, CNN and most of the rest of the mainstream American media. Infiltration operations have been run and publicized by the same people. Actions against the alleged IRA have been filed by infiltrators in the Russian courts. Any intelligent observer would ask the first obvious question: Why, if this building and the alleged company occupying it has been so repeatedly targeted by Western intelligence, would Putin be stupid enough to run an influence operation from that location targeting the 2016 elections? The answer should be obvious; he did not.
The St. Petersburg social media troll farm, at the center of Mueller’s indictment, has been a staple, endlessly photographed, infiltrated, and written about by Western Information Warriors from 2014 forward.
A huge and well-funded anti-Putin “information warfare” industry now operates in Washington, D.C., featuring the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, where none other than Dmitri Alperovitch (author of the “Russia hacked the DNC” hoax) is a fellow; the Alliance for the Defense of Democracy; the German Marshall Fund; the Information Warfare Initiative of the Washington-based Center for European Policy Analysis; the National Endowment for Democracy; and the State Department’s propaganda arms, Radio Free Liberty and Radio Free Europe. Generous funding has been provided by the likes of Khodorkovsky and George Soros. As the result of the National Defense Authorization Act, signed by Obama in 2016, millions of dollars are now flowing into this U.S. information warfare initiative.
To understand next quote the Russian Federal Security Service has the acronym FSB.
According to the Saker blog’s Russian account of the IRA, the company itself does not exist. It is a fiction created by Shaltay-Boltay, the successor to “Anonymous International” in conjunction with Western intelligence agencies. Shaltay-Boltay, Russian for “Humpty-Dumpty,” conducted a systematic campaign of hacking, leaking, and extortion against Russian officials, according to accounts of its own activities published in the Guardian. Members of Shaltay-Boltay were arrested in November 2016 together with rogue Russian FSB officers said to control their activities. All were charged with treason by the Russian government, specifically some form of collaboration with the CIA.
According to a November 2017, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty article, the FSB “cyber” division where the arrested officers worked had been in collaboration with U.S. law enforcement agencies for years.
Alexander Mercouris intro
My standard web searchs so far have not found much about him.
https://sputniknews.com/authors/alexander_mercouris/
Alexander Mercouris is a London-based writer on international affairs with a special interest in Russia and law. He has written extensively on the legal aspects of NSA spying and events in Ukraine in terms of human rights, constitutionality and international law, being a frequent commentator on television and speaker at conferences. He worked for 12 years in the Royal Courts of Justice in London as a lawyer, specializing in human rights and constitutional law.
https://www.facebook.com/TheDuranEditor/
may or may not be him: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-mercouris-a3197436/
Articles by or about Alexander Mercouris
https://consortiumnews.com/tag/alexander-mercouris/
http://thesaker.is/tag/alexander-mercouris/
https://russia-insider.com/en/alexander_mercouris
The Duran (Peter Lavelle) Interviews Alexander Mercouris: What is The Duran? on ‘The Duran’ youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y2wyLDpJX4
http://akarlin.com/writer/amercouris/
Alexander Mercouris intro
Managing editor of “The Duran”
https://twitter.com/AMercouris
https://theduran.com/members/alexander/snax_posts/
bad press on Alexander Mercouris
Work by or about Alexander Mercouris
https://www.europereloaded.com/tag/alexander-mercouris/
https://www.mintpressnews.com/author/alexander-mercouris/
The Duran Interviews Alexander Mercouris: What is The Duran?
https://thesaker.is/tag/alexander-mercouris/
familiarity: Since ~summer 2019 or earlier?
Alex Christoforou intro
Not much info on Alex.
http://theduran.com/members/alex/
https://www.facebook.com/alex.christoforou
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexchristoforou/
https://twitter.com/alextheduran?lang=en
https://www.crowdfunder.com/user/139
By or about Alex Christoforou
https://www.therussophile.org/author/alex-christoforou/
Mike Whitney intro
http://criticalstudies.org/author/whitney/
http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/2819
http://www.eurasiareview.com/author/mike-whitney/
Mike Whitney writes on politics and finances and lives in Washington state. He can be reached at fergiewhitney@msn.com
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?author=121
An American writer who runs his his own landscape company in Snohomish, Wa, U.S., Mike Whitney regularly features on ukurnet and other websites
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Mike_Whitney
Work by or about Mike Whitney
After about 30 min of searches on Fri 23 Feb 2018, Mike appears to be OK/competent/experienced/interesting.
http://www.unz.com/author/mike-whitney/
https://russia-insider.com/en/mike_whitney
https://www.counterpunch.org/author/mw/
https://www.aim.org/aim-column/targeting-the-fox-news-journalists/
I come across a lot of junk on the Internet but was truly shocked when I saw a column by a popular left-wing writer and former local Democratic Party official named Mike Whitney that served to justify the kidnapping of Fox News journalists Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig by a Palestinian terrorist group
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/15/assads-death-warrant/
familiarity: First aware of him in Feb 2018.
North Korea / USA Stalemate
Interesting 10 minutes; to hear you need to skip in to 53 min mark:
U.S. Peace Council
http://keywiki.org/U.S._Peace_Council
The U.S. Peace Council was created by the Communist Party USA and was launched as the official U.S. national section of the Soviet front, World Peace Council at a November 1979 conference in Philadelphia.
Robert Roth is a retired public interest lawyer. He enforced consumer fraud and protection law as an assistant attorney-general for New York (1981-1991) and Oregon (1993-2007). Download his mini-primer of key facts and misinformation on the Syria conflict.
60+ pages: http://www.syriasolidaritymovement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/RobRothSyriaPrimer_v3.4.pdf
Chris Kanthan intro
Chris Kanthan wordpress blog https://worldaffairs.blog/about/
a hi-tech professional in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is also a writer and an author, trying to raise awareness about politics, world affairs, food and health through non-partisan blog posts, often with a twist of satire. He loves traveling and has been to 35 countries around the world.
https://www.nationofchange.org/author/chris-kanthan/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chriskanthan/
https://www.amazon.com/Chris-Kanthan/e/B00CNE6K1O
https://angel.co/chris-kanthan
by or about Chris Kanthan
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48152.htm
https://www.therussophile.org/tag/chris-kanthan/
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7377021.Chris_Kanthan
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/747104
https://benwilliamslibrary.com/blog/?p=5885
Judith D Schwartz intro
Judith D. Schwartz is a journalist whose recent work looks at soil as a hub for multiple environmental, economic and social challenges-and solutions. She writes on this theme for numerous publications and speaks in venues around the world.
https://www.facebook.com/judith.d.schwartz
https://twitter.com/judithdschwartz
https://www.amazon.com/Judith-D.-Schwartz/e/B00B7RA6FE/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0
Her 2013 book “Cows Save the Planet” looked at soil as a hub for our many environmental and economic challenges–and for solutions. In “Water In Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World”, she shows how appreciating the way water moves across the landscape offers new routes to water security, with implications for climate change, biodiversity, poverty and conflict.
Work by or about Judith D Schwartz
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/judith-d-schwartz
Robert Roth intro /retired Consumer Fraud Lawyer/
Familiarity: Discovered Feb 2018.
Seems credible, but only found a small number of articles (quite good/in depth) he wrote in a 10 minute search on Tue 27 Feb 2018.
Retired Consumer Fraud, public interest Lawyer.
Robert Roth of Eugene is a retired public interest lawyer who practiced in the field of consumer protection in New York and Oregon.
Robert Roth is a retired public interest lawyer. He enforced consumer fraud and protection law as an assistant attorney-general for New York (1981-1991) and Oregon (1993-2007).
I spent 25 years prosecuting lies in commerce for the attorneys general of New York and Oregon.
by or about Robert Roth
http://www.unz.com/author/robert-roth/
Syrian Forums
https://www.reddit.com/r/Syria
https://www.reddit.com/r/syrianconflict/
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/syria-discussion-group
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/soc.culture.syria
hashtags
#SyrianWar #Syria #StopSyriaCivilWar #handsoffsyria #whitehelmets #eastghouta #endlesswar #antiwar
Syrian Solidarity Websites, supporting Syria Gov
http://www.syriasolidaritymovement.org/
http://hamiltoncoalitiontostopthewar.ca/
http://handsoffsyria.blogspot.com/
https://timhayward.wordpress.com/
https://syriaaccountability.org/
USA Immigration Issue
This is stub entry, keep an eye on it.
http://news.infoshop.org/opinion/open-borders-are-our-only-hope/ via https://c4ss.org/
Tribalism is best understood in terms of the creation of teams through the dehumanization of an ‘other.’ Tribalism is mentally categorizing someone who is somehow different (however shallow that difference may be) and turning their value into less than that of your team or “community.”
ICE jails
http://traffic.libsyn.com/whowhatwhy/WhoWhatWhy.PBC.podcast.Hidalgo.mp3?dest-id=228606
Voces de la Fronterra
A good use of social media: https://twitter.com/voces_milwaukee
Example of art/creativity and collective activism:
https://twitter.com/JosephBrusky/status/957399885464178689
https://twitter.com/JosephBrusky/status/957308344158621696
https://twitter.com/voces_milwaukee/status/955524584647905281
https://twitter.com/JosephBrusky/status/955257015726673920
Milwaukee Get the Lead Out
I was at the first meeting of the “get the lead out” Community Unity Assembly on Sat Feb 24.
The next meeting is
2 - 4pm
(some library)
I’m on an informal mailing list of there’s, just got one email. They have formed a “Education/Outreach Working Group”, which is planning to set up a meeting soon.
Robert Miranda mentioned FLAC several times during the meeting: https://flacwaterislife.org/
https://www.facebook.com/robert.miranda.94
Miranda seemed to quote from a source he called “earth justice”, perhaps he was refering to this site from which I randomly selected a lead related article:
2/14/18 city hall event:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/DSAMKE/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2116190601990373
Upcoming talk by Dr Yanna Lambrinidou on Wed Mar 7, 7pm, Marq Hall Rm 100: https://twitter.com/MilwaukeeDSA/status/967481143644868608
Dead now?: https://www.facebook.com/campaignforleadfreewater/
Robert Miranda campaign for lead free water /an older blog entry/
Left Critics of “Pro Syrian Gov/ Syrian Solidarity” Movement
https://oaklandsocialist.com/2017/03/27/who-is-the-syria-solidarity-movement/
Sara Flounders intro
http://iacenter.org/o/us/flounders-bio100612/
Sara Flounders has been active in progressive and anti-war organizing since the 1960s. She is co-director of the International Action Center and co-authored and/or edited 10 books the IAC published on U.S. wars and sanctions against Iraq and Yugoslavia, on U.S. use of depleted uranium weapons, on Haiti and Colombia, and on opposing military recruiters. She writes regularly for the Marxist Workers World newspaper, and speaks on U.S. imperialist aggression on alternative and corporate media outlets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Flounders
By or about Sara Flounders
Ken Stone intro
http://www.syriasolidaritymovement.org/about/steering-committee/
Ken Stone is a veteran anti-war, anti-racist, social justice, and environmental activist in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is the Treasurer of the Hamilton Coalition To Stop The War, a Steering Committee member of the Canadian Peace Alliance, and a former Central Committee member of the Global March to Jerusalem. He has written a number of letters and articles on the Syrian crisis for the Hamilton Spectator and Global Research and appeared numerous times on Press TV.
By or about Ken Stone.
Interview: http://thegarynullshow.podbean.com/mf/feed/pakjqq/GaryNull_030118.mp3
Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act
https://www.us-immigration.com/freedom-information-privacy-act-facts/
https://www.muckrock.com/about/
Ukraine Conflict Misc
Voces de la Fronterra, Milwaukee
Tel: (414) 643-1620 Fax: (414) 643-1621
Amalgamated bank
https://www.amalgamatedbank.com/
http://itsourmoney.podbean.com/mf/feed/nbcexk/ITSOurMoney_030718.mp3
Sputnik’s Loud and Clear show
https://sputniknews.com/radio_loud_and_clear/
Show anchors:
get the lead out
Lead is even deadlier than we feared https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16611099
The study found that deaths, especially from cardiovascular disease, increased markedly with exposure, even at the lowest levels. It concluded that lead kills 412,000 people a year – accounting for 18% of all US mortality, not much less than the 483,000 who perish as a result of smoking.
Managing News Outrage, News Allergy, News Fasts, Negative Feedback/Political Disagreements w/Friends
The speaker, Byron Katie is very new to me, so she is not vetted by me. She has that story about talking calmly with her “would be” assassin; she has a good take on ones sense of self, on thoughts, on verbal assaults, on not shutting down …
“Peacetalksbyronkatie”: http://prn.fm/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/PT_031718.mp3
Byron Katie intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Katie
work by or about Byron Katie
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheWorkofBK
https://www.azquotes.com/author/7768-Byron_Katie
https://www.facebook.com/theworkofbyronkatie
I’m Afraid of Trump—The Work of Byron Katie | youtube
critics
http://matthewremski.com/wordpress/byron-katie-case-study/
The encounter begins with a fundamental act of disempowerment that establishes Katie as the expert of the subject’s thoughts and problems, as someone who can say: your assertions about the future are irrational – even though the subject isn’t asserting anything about the future.
Mark Z. Jacobson intro
https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/
Director, Atmosphere/Energy Program
Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
Senior Fellow, Precourt Institute for Energy
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy (Y2E2) Building
473 Via Ortega, Room 397
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Tel: (650) 723-6836
Fax: (650) 723-7058
Email: jacobson -at- stanford.edu
Follow @mzjacobson
B.S. Civil Engineering, B.A. Economics, and M.S. [Environmental
Engineering](http://cee.stanford.edu/) (1988) Stanford University
M.S. (1991) and Ph.D. (1994) Atmospheric Science, University of California at Los Angeles
Full Curriculum Vitae (CV)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Z._Jacobson
my familiarity: Just found Mar 2018.
TODO: spend another 20 min on web searches.
by or about Mark Z. Jacobson
http://www.thesolutionsproject.org/solutions-project-mark-jacobson/
http://www.vibrantcleanenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/ReplyResponse.pdf
Calm Cloudy Winter Days over Entire Continents
Mar 2018 interview of Dr Ken Caldeira of Carnegie Institution for Science: https://www.ecoshock.net/downloads/ES_180314_LoFi.mp3
Skip in 4 min 40 sec discussion of continental wide “troublesome weather”.
Other key parts of the interview:
04:34 2 weeks out of year
05:19 batteries need to be 100x cheaper
05:34
05:44 80% as annual average
08:17 Nov 2016 Mark Z Jacobson paper
10:38 high voltage x-mission lines
11:22
12:18
21:53 whole country at 1/4 of normal load
23:56
25:22
From the journal Energy & Environmental Science is the paper: Geophysical constraints on the reliability of solar and wind power in the United States
We analyze 36 years of global, hourly weather data (1980–2015) to quantify the covariability of solar and wind resources as a function of time and location, over multi-decadal time scales and up to continental length scales. Assuming minimal excess generation, lossless transmission, and no other generation sources, the analysis indicates that wind-heavy or solar-heavy U.S.-scale power generation portfolios could in principle provide ∼80% of recent total annual U.S. electricity demand. However, to reliably meet 100% of total annual electricity demand, seasonal cycles and unpredictable weather events require several weeks’ worth of energy storage and/or the installation of much more capacity of solar and wind power than is routinely necessary to meet peak demand.
Per Caldeira batteries need to come down in cost by a factor of 100 before we could afford “several weeks’ worth of energy storage”.
Dr Ken Caldeira intro
From https://dge.carnegiescience.edu/labs/caldeiralab/:
Department of Global Ecology
Carnegie Institution for Science
260 Panama St.
Stanford, CA 94305
(650) 704-7212
kcaldeira -at- carnegiescience -dot- edu
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Blog
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Caldeira
https://twitter.com/KenCaldeira
https://carnegiescience.edu/scientist/ken-caldeira
my familiarity: Found out about him in Mar 2018
If he is pro nuclear power, then I disagree w/him there. That does not invalidate him as an information source. In his 2018 radio eco shock interview, I do not think Ken comes across as pro nuclear power.
by or about Ken Caldeira
https://www.cnn.com/2013/11/03/world/nuclear-energy-climate-change-scientists-letter/index.html
youtube production intro
mobile video streams / how to Start a scheduled live stream
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2853700
Snip of steps from https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2853700
Scheduling live streams on mobile
Schedule a live stream on mobile
Select the capture button.
Select GO LIVE.
Create a title, then select a privacy setting.
Select More options and enable Schedule for later.
Select the date and start time.
Select Next to take a picture for your thumbnail. You can upload a custom thumbnail.
Select Done.
Start a scheduled live stream
Select the capture button.
Select GO LIVE.
Select the calendar button.
Select your live stream.
Note: You can delete scheduled live streams by pressing the delete button.
Select GO LIVE.
posted question Re patching mobile to preexisting ‘youtube live event’
laptop. At event date want to use mobile as video source for the
event. Stumped on mapping phone in as video source for the event –
ideas? (android or iphone)
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/86pzsm/plan_to_promote_future_youtube_live_event_which/
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/W_Tkz5ltnHY;context-place=forum/youtube
Depression Support & Treatment
Greater Milwaukee DBSA - Depression Bipolar Support Alliance
We get together every second and fourth Monday of the month at Independence First from 6:30-8:30.
The Milwaukee chapter of the DBSA strives to provide a safe, welcoming, and confidential forum for mutual acceptance, understanding, and self-discovery. We are here to provide the opportunity for individuals dealing with mental illness to reach out to others and benefit from the experience of those who have been there before. We look to help people rediscover strengths and humor they thought they might have lost; to motivate them to follow their wellness plans, and; to understand that mood disorders do not define who they are.
general youtube producer help
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/youtube
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/
Sergei and Yulia Skripal Incident
https://russia-insider.com/en/30-questions-journalists-should-be-asking-about-skripal-case/ri22851
History of 1990s Yugoslovia Conflict
http://21stcenturywire.com/2018/03/26/msm-fake-news-uk-the-bosnian-death-camp-deception/
multi-part story: https://orientalreview.org/2019/03/22/a-short-history-of-yugoslavia-i/
TODO - just started Mon 26 Mar 2018
Voter Activation Network software
http://wiki.wellstone.org/Voter+Activation+Network
The Voter Activation Network (VAN) is proprietary voter file management software for Democratic or progressive identified organizations and campaigns owned by NGP VAN. An enterprise software built specifically for campaigns, it has supported the efforts of Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns, as well as Hillary Clinton’s 2016 race.
Unique to VAN is their data enrichment mechanism - when campaigns identify wrong numbers, deceased voters, bad addresses, etc,… it updates the voter file of other Democratic campaigns as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGP_VAN
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_database
https://nationbuilder.com/how_is_nationbuilder_different_from_ngp_van
Martin Luther King Assassination
I reviewed the links below on Tue 10 Apr 2018. You are not seeing 6 links (I commented them out) because they have gone bad. At least one was due closed youtube account.
Here’s a 2022 link, from Jack Dresser’s podcast > https://archive.kepw.org/mp3/kepw_220120_190033racismempireandsurviv.mp3
https://consortiumnews.com/2018/04/10/the-washington-posts-breakthrough-on-the-mlk-murder/
https://consortiumnews.com/2018/04/10/the-washington-posts-breakthrough-on-the-mlk-murder/
The bold, top-of-the-front-page treatment on April 2 of reporter Tom Jackman’s in-depth piece —“The Past Rediscovered: Who killed Martin Luther King Jr.?” — represents a major turning point in the treatment of the case for the past five decades by mainstream media. Print, broadcast and all too many film makers and academics have consistently soft-pedaled ballistic, eye-witness and other evidence that undermines the official story of King’s death.
… “Conspiracy Theories” is a smear. It’s used by reporters and academics to discredit alternative researchers ever since the CIA secretly distributed to its operatives in April 1967 the now-declassified “CIA Dispatch 1035-960.” The 53-page CIA memo urged agency personnel to persuade their establishment contacts to use the term “conspiracy theorist” to undermine critics of the 1964 Warren Report on the JFK assassination, thereby helping to discredit New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison’s grand jury investigation of a fatal plot alleged to include CIA personnel scheming against the president.
Authorities have long pinned all blame for King’s murder on the ill-educated petty thief James Earl Ray, who was supposedly motivated by racism. The evidence Pepper uncovered shows that Ray’s movements were manipulated by a handler so that he would be at the scene when a professional team undertook the hit.
MLK “wrongful death civil trial, King family vs. Loyd Jowers …”:
2007 speech by Lawyer William F Pepper on US State Crimes Against Democracy:
Ron Paul interviewed on MLK “Why was Martin Luther King murdered? Ron Paul and Kevin Barrett agree: the Deep State did it”:
William Pepper - An Act of State The Execution …:
Talk by William Pepper author of “An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King” and “Orders to Kill: The Truth Behind the Murder of Martin Luther King” given February 27, 2003 in Seattle.
Today, Tue 10 Apr 2018, I harvested these from my podcast logs:
http://www.radio4all.net/files/tuc@tucradio.org/44-2-MartinKingTwo_2018.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/macdroe@optonline.net/3199-1-MLKRFK_final.mp3
http://fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/history/american/news.php?q=1548261404
Play: Project Unspeakable on the 60s assassinations
Inspired by James Douglass’ research.
http://projectunspeakable.com/
Video - Project Unspeakable performed in Seattle, Nov 22, 2013 (~80min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouZFlXzLTFA
Video - Oct 2016 performance (1hr 54m): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyWa5NJvozE
Assad rejects Qatari natural gas pipeline in 2009
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/15/assads-death-warrant/
trying to overthrow a democratically-elected secular regime that refuses to bow to Washington’s demands to provide access to pipeline corridors that will further strengthen US dominance in the region. That’s what’s really going on behind the ISIS distraction and the “Assad is a brutal dictator” distraction and the “war-weary civilians in Aleppo” distraction. Washington doesn’t care about any of those things. What Washington cares about is oil, power and money. How can anyone be confused about that by now? Kennedy (RF Jr) summed it up like this:
We must recognize the Syrian conflict is a war over control of resources indistinguishable from the myriad clandestine and undeclared oil wars we have been fighting in the Mid-East for 65 years. And only when we see this conflict as a proxy war over a pipeline do events become comprehensible.
Robert F Kennedy Jr, 2/2016: https://www.politico.eu/article/why-the-arabs-dont-want-us-in-syria-mideast-conflict-oil-intervention/
Secret cables and reports by the U.S., Saudi and Israeli intelligence agencies indicate that the moment Assad rejected the Qatari pipeline, military and intelligence planners quickly arrived at the consensus that fomenting a Sunni uprising in Syria to overthrow the uncooperative Bashar Assad was a feasible path to achieving the shared objective of completing the Qatar/Turkey gas link. In 2009, according to WikiLeaks, soon after Bashar Assad rejected the Qatar pipeline, the CIA began funding opposition groups in Syria.
https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
Danny Haiphong intro
Very young reporter.
https://dissidentvoice.org/2013/11/social-work-under-us-capitalist-empire/
I am a graduate of Skidmore College. I majored in social work. I chose to major in social work because there was little else offered that I could relate to personally and politically. Most courses and majors prepared students ideologically and professionally to manage the affairs of US imperialism. By the time I had to declare a major, I was more interested in plotting and planning how to destroy this system rather then learning how to manage its affairs. It did not take very long in the social work program for me to realize social work’s historical and political function within the US imperialist system.
work by or about Danny Haiphong
Interview of him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmdgGSg3Hzo
https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/Danny%20Haiphong
https://www.workers.org/author/danny-haiphong/
https://ahtribune.com/author.html?id=954
http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/49592
familiarity: First aware of him on Mon 30 Apr 2018.
Jeff J Brown intro
Work by or about Jeff J Brown
Rank Choice Voting and alternatives
https://whowhatwhy.org/2018/05/29/dont-throw-away-your-vote-ranked-choice-elections-gather-momentum/
ranked-choice voting can also save cities money by doing away with costly primary and runoff elections. Bringing people to the polls two, if not three, times in a given election cycle draws heavily on taxpayer dollars, and few people show up three times. Ranked-choice voting can consolidate the whole process into a single vote, lowering the cost of running elections. –snip Ranked choice could also serve as the basis for “instant runoff” elections, consolidating the primary and runoff process into a single ballot.
Lance deHaven-Smith intro
http://askew.fsu.edu/faculty/dehavensmith.html
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Lance_deHaven-Smith
https://www.facebook.com/ldehavensmith
https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/dehcon
Work by or about Lance deHaven-Smith
deHaven-Smith’s term “State Crimes Against Democracy”
https://www.amazon.com/Lance-DeHaven-Smith/e/B001KCA7KU
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_nwo149.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UELxUMCtF0E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=KwXihjuc86k
familiarity: several years since 2018
SCAD State Crimes Against Democracy
https://statecrimesagainstdemocracy.blogspot.com/
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_nwo149.htm
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_nwo86.htm
http://911truth.org/911-ten-years-later-when-state-crimes-against-democracy-succeed/
State Crimes Against Democracy - Lance deHaven-Smith |Youtube
Same(?) video with additional text: https://archive.org/details/Lance_201402
https://www.globalresearch.ca/state-crimes-against-democracy/17922
https://reconsidering-democracy.org/research_projects/what-are-state-crimes-against-democracy-scads/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_crime
David Talbot intro
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/David_Talbot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Talbot
https://everipedia.org/wiki/David_Talbot/
https://twitter.com/davidtalbot
Work by or about David Talbot
https://www.sfchronicle.com/author/david-talbot/
http://jfkfacts.org/tag/david-talbot/
familiarity: several years prior to 2018
Peter Dale Scott intro
http://www.peterdalescott.net/
https://www.facebook.com/peter.d.scott.9
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Peter_Dale_Scott
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Dale_Scott
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Peter_Dale_Scott
Work by or about Peter Dale Scott
http://www.peterdalescott.net/q.html
familiarity: several years before 2018
Prof Piers Robinson intro
https://piersrobinson.wordpress.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Robinson
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Piers_Robinson
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Piers_Robinson
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Piers_Robinson
Work by or about Professor Piers Robinson
http://syriapropagandamedia.org/
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Working_Group_on_Syria_Propaganda_and_Media
familiarity
First noted on Sat 09 Jun 2018.
21stCenturyWire Patrick Henningsen intro
https://www.patrickhenningsen.com/bio
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Patrick_Henningsen
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/21st_Century_Wire
https://www.youtube.com/user/21stCenturyWireTV
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/21st-century-wire/
Peter Koenig intro
http://en.wikimannia.org/Peter_Koenig
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Peter_Koenig
<http://thesaker.is/what-really-happens-to-nicaragua-venezuela-and-ecuador?
Peter Koenig is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a water resources and environmental specialist. He worked for over 30 years with the World Bank and the World Health Organization around the world in the fields of environment and water. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for Global Research; ICH; RT; Sputnik; PressTV; The 21st Century; TeleSUR; The Vineyard of The Saker Blog; and other internet sites. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed– fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe. He is also a co-author of The World Order and Revolution! – Essays from the Resistance.
by or about Peter Koenig
https://www.telesurtv.net/english/staff/pkoening
https://www.globalresearch.ca/author/peter-koenig
https://thesaker.is/tag/peter-koenig/
The Delphi Initiative - Speech by Peter Koenig
(amazon](https://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=peter+koenig&tag=mh0b-20&index=aps&hvadid=77859194077873&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c)
familiarity:
Added Mon 11 Jun 2018.
Foxconn Overview
https://www.businessinsider.com/why-foxconns-wisconsin-factory-is-terrible-deal-2018-11
https://9to5mac.com/2017/08/11/foxconn-us-factory-iphone-displays-claim-wsj/
Stop the Foxconn Con, say WI Greens
Community Brainstorming: FOXCONN - WHAT IS IT AND HOW DO WE GET INVOLVED?
ongoing updates on Foxconn
anti Foxconn activism
Apr 2018 Comm Brainstorming Foxconn Panel
Shake the Ground! - ground breaking ceromony protest Jun 28 2018
Funneling money to Foxconn takes away resources that should be going to fund our public schools and universities, to repair roads and bridges throughout the state, fixing the state’s segregation and incarceration problems and protecting our WI natural areas. Exemption from state environmental oversight poses the threat of water and air pollution as well as the destruction of wetlands that protect homeowners and businesses from flooding, and acting as potentially the greatest threat to Lake Michigan – part of the world’s largest freshwater reservoir. The rights of landowners and homeowners have been violated, designating their properties as blighted to seize them through eminent domain.
Anti Foxconn hash tags
#stopFoxconn #noFoxconn #FoxconnCon #FoxCONn #CorporateWelfare #greatlakes #CorruptWIGOP #ConJob #wiunion #WrongForWI
search for some Anti Foxconn hash tags
Foxconn labor record
2017 https://www.ft.com/content/292f223a-cf6f-11e7-b781-794ce08b24dc
Plans to stop Foxconn
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/pressrelease/matt-flynn-outlines-legal-strategy-to-stop-foxconn/
Muni Bonds Intro
http://www.msrb.org/EducationCenter/Municipal-Market/Lifecycle/Primary/Underwriting-Process.aspx
Intelligence Agencies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Community
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_intelligence_agencies
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Safari_Club
Milwaukee NAACP
https://www.facebook.com/NAACPMKE/
2745 N Dr Martin Luther King Dr, Ste 202
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
http://naacpmke.org/index.php/contact/
Repeats every month on the third Saturday until Mon Dec 31 2018 .
07/21/18
08/18/18
09/15/18
10/20/18
11/17/18
12/15/18
Monthly on 3rd Sat, 11:00am - 1:00pm
2745 N. Dr. Martin Luther King Dr., Milwaukee
Monthly membership meeting of NAACP Milwaukee Branch. The meeting is held in the basement conference room.
Peace Action Wisconsin
https://www.peaceactionwi.org/
https://twitter.com/peaceactionwi
https://www.facebook.com/peaceactionwi.org/
Milwaukee, WI 53212-1710
GAIA COALITION NETWORK
https://gaiacoalitionblog.wordpress.com/about/
CloseMSDF
1015 N 10th St, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53205
http://www.rocwisconsin.org/our-work/expo/
https://www.facebook.com/CLOSEmsdf/
https://ridracismmilwaukee.blog/
http://www.sentencingproject.org/
https://www.facebook.com/events/241805526449371
Hash tags and accounts
#Right2Vote #closemsdf #august21 #prisonstrike #NationalPrisonStrike #shutitdown #halfby2030
twitter accts: @CLOSEmsdf @expowisconsin @OLBLightBrigade @wisdom4justice @JustLeadersUSA
2018 Nationwide Prison Strike Aug 21 - Sep 9
https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-statement-nationwide-prison-strike
https://incarceratedworkers.org/campaigns/prison-strike-2018
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/20/prison-labor-protest-america-jailhouse-lawyers-speak
https://wrfglaborforum.org/2018/08/03/national-prison-strike-from-aug-21-to-sept-9/
Young People’s Resistance Committee (Milwaukee)
https://yprcmke.wordpress.com/
Wisconsin Wolf Advocacy
https://wiwolvesandwildlife.org/about/
117 Ardmore Drive
Madison, WI 53713
https://www.facebook.com/FriendsOfTheWisconsinWolf/
Black Mama’s Bailout day (mothers’ day)
http://www.spiritofchange.org/politics-community/Black-Mamas-Day-Bailout-2018/
Citizen Action Wisconsin
https://www.citizenactionwi.org/
https://www.facebook.com/CitizenActionWI
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53204
https://twitter.com/CitizenActionWI
Midwest Activist Groups
Milwaukee NAACP
Wisconsin Network for Peace, Justice & Sustainability (WNPJS)
GAIA COALITION NETWORK
CloseMSDF
Juliee de la Terre intro
https://www.facebook.com/juliee.delaterre
https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliee-de-la-terre-57000831/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Juliee_De_La_Terre
Work by or about Juliee de la Terre
https://www.democracyconvention.org/conference/speaker/juliee-de-la-terre
Juliee de la Terre is the director of the Sacred Water Sacred Land Institute based in south western Wisconsin. She has been advocating for the health and wellness of people and planet for three decades by initiating green businesses, engaging in political movements, developing educational and PR programs centered on ecological health and social justice, writing curricula, coordinating eco-consciousness raising events including watershed-wide Earth Day events and a trans-state Enbridge oil pipeline awareness walk in 2016.
Derrick Jensen Resistance Radio w/ Juliee de la Terre & Bill Greendeer - January 10, 2016
Derrick Jensen Resistance Radio w/ Juliee de la Terre - November 5, 2017
Earth Law Center intro
https://www.earthlawcenter.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Law_Center
https://greatnonprofits.org/org/earth-law-center
familiarity: Since Jul 2018
Kevin Zeese intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Zeese
https://www.gp.org/kevin_zeese
Kevin Zeese is a public interest attorney who has worked for economic, racial and environmental justice since graduating from George Washington Law School in 1980.
He co-directs PopularResistance.org which works to build the independent movement for transformational change. Zeese co-hosts, Clearing the FOG radio …
From Oct 2019 IL GP email:
Zeese, a member of the Maryland Green Party, has been in the forefront of numerous struggles for peace and social justice, from the recent People’s Mobilization to Stop the US War Machine and Save the Planet outside the United Nations to his organizing of the Embassy Protection Collective in Washington. The Embassy Protection Collective is a group of peace activists who occupied the Venezuelan embassy in Washington with the permission of the sovereign government of Venezuela, after the Trump administration forced all diplomatic staff to leave the U.S. The Embassy Protection Collective successfully thwarted the Trump administration’s efforts to turn the embassy over to supporters of its puppet Juan Guaido, as part of its attempt to execute a coup in Venezuela. …
Zeese is one of four Embassy Protectors now facing highly politicized federal criminal charges for his role in standing up for international law and the rights of nations to self-determination. Contributions to support the protectors’ legal defense will be welcome at his appearances. (See https://defendembassyprotectors.org/)
https://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/portraits/kevin-zeese
https://www.facebook.com/kevin.zeese.1
Work by or about Kevin Zeese
https://popularresistance.org/tag/kevin-zeese/
https://www.laprogressive.com/author/kevin-zeese/
https://www.eurasiareview.com/author/kevin-zeese/
https://www.alternet.org/authors/kevin-zeese
familiarity: First noted here on Thu 09 Aug 2018.
Washington Consensus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Consensus
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Washington-consensus
http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine/resources/part3/chapter8/washington-consensus
IRC intro
Kathy Kelly intro
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kathy_Kelly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Kelly
https://www.facebook.com/Kathy-Kelly-Peace-Activist-189069044486246/
https://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/portraits/kathy-kelly
http://vcnv.org/kathy-kelly-long-version/ | Kathy Kelly, co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence
https://ahtribune.com/human-rights/american-human-rights/2111-kathy-kelly.html
https://everipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Kelly/
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/kathy-kelly
Work by or about Kathy Kelly
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Voices_in_the_Wilderness
http://warisacrime.org/author/kathykelly/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_Q8ybQLGQE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a-YBw8xEdU
podcasts
http://www.archive.org/download/TWIP-110717-KathyKelly/TWIP-110717-KathyKelly.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/anonymous@radio4all.net/16-1-Kathy_Kelly_4_19_13.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/dalerlehman@yahoo.com/2838-1-K.Kelly.MP3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/dalerlehman@yahoo.com/2838-1-KathyKelly_Loyola.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/dalerlehman@yahoo.com/2838-1-Kathy_Kelly.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/jblankfort@earthlink.net/1752-1-totw080818kellyinterview.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/kdowst@hotmail.com/3415-1-NWN-196_KathyKelly-1_64k.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/kdowst@hotmail.com/3415-1-NWN-197_KathyKelly-2_32k.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/kdowst@hotmail.com/3415-1-NWN-399_KathyKelly-2_64k.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/kdowst@hotmail.com/3415-1-nwn-103_resisting-violence_kkelly_64k.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/pencil@riseup.net/3609-1-kathy_kelly2.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/wvought@gmail.com/4318-1-Kathy_Kelly_-_Break_Every_Chain.mp3
Norman G Finkelstein intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Finkelstein
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Norman_G._Finkelstein
https://twitter.com/normfinkelstein?lang=en
https://www.facebook.com/Norman-Finkelstein-308949505808407/
Work by or about Norman Finkelstein
https://www.csun.edu/~vcmth00m/finkelstein.html
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Norman_Finkelstein
familiarity: Since at least 3 years prior to 2018
Chicago Area Anti-War/Peace Groups/Coalitions/Activists
CCAWR Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism was strongly recommended in Sep 2018 by Dale Lehman to me as a group to get involved with for Chicago anti war activism .
The next several pages were made by walking through this list of ccawr.org/endorsers.
They all endorsed the August 25, 2018 – Rally and March “Unite Against War and Police Violence”. I selected this list somewhat arbitrarly as a way to get famaliar with Chicago antiwar groups. I attempted to find and list a few basic links for each org.
CCAWR Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism
http://ccawr.org/
http://ccawr.org/about/ to get on email list
http://ccawr.org/endorsers/
About Face: Veterans Against the War (Iraq Veterans Against the War) – IVAW Chicago
by or about ivaw Chicago
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/iraq-veterans-against-the-war-chicago-or-bust#/
American Friends Service Committee (afsc quakers)
Brant Rosen
637 S. Dearborn Suite 3
Chicago, IL 60605
Phone: 312-427-2533
email: Brant Rosen
https://www.facebook.com/AFSCchicago/
https://twitter.com/afsc_org
by or about afsc
https://www.afsc.org/chicago-palestine-israel-program
ANSWER Chicago
http://www.answercoalition.org/chicago
by or about ANSWER Chicago
http://www.answerchicago.org/2018/04/april-21-stop-the-u-s-war-on-syria-the-u-s-lies-people-die/
Marcia Bernsten
https://twitter.com/marciab_il
Volunteer with PJEP.org and ChiPeaceAction.org.
PJEP.org appears to be down or defunct
https://www.zoominfo.com/p/Marcia-Bernsten/1835419061
1213 Maple Avenue, Evanston, Illinois, United States
(847) 332-1870
Board Member - Chicago Area Peace Action
Vicky Cervantes
news by or about
https://talkinsocialism.wordpress.com/tag/vicki-cervantes/
Vicki Cervantes is a founding member of the Chicago based solidarity and human rights organization, La Voz de los de Abajo. La Voz de los de Abajo was created in 1998 after Hurricane Mitch devastated Honduras. After the military coup in Honduras in June 2009, La Voz de los de Abajo helped to found the Honduras Solidarity Network (HSN). Vicki is currently the North American coordinator in North America for the HSN. She travels regularly to Honduras and spends time in the campesino and indigenous communities and with the resistance movement.
https://solidarity-us.org/summerschool2017program/
CAARPR Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
https://www.keywiki.org/Chicago_Alliance_Against_Racist_and_Political_Repression
news by or about CAARPR
https://www.protestchicago.com/2018/05/03/welcome-home-rally-with-angela-davis/
protestchicago.com
https://www.protestchicago.com/
CAPA Chicago Peace Action; ChiPeaceAction; Evanston, Illinois
info@chipeaceaction.org
(847) 475-3692
535 Custer Ave. Evanston, IL 60202
https://www.facebook.com/ChiPeaceAction
https://www.linkedin.com/company/chicago-area-peace-action/
http://chipeaceaction.org/blog/
43 dissapeared in #ayotzinapa
http://ayotzinchicago.com/
https://twitter.com/comitechicago
https://twitter.com/hashtag/ayotzinapa?lang=en
Vincent Emanuele
by or about Vincent Emanuele
https://www.counterpunch.org/author/teyafrup8udrepu/
<a href=“mailto:vincent.emanuele333@gmail.com”
>vincent.emanuele333@gmail.com
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/08/the-curse-and-failure-of-identity-politics/
https://ahtribune.com/in-depth/1592-vincent-emanuele.html
Vincent Emanuele is a writer, activist and radio host who lives and works in Michigan City, Indiana. A combat veteran, Vincent joined the antiwar movement after being deployed to Iraq with the United States Marine Corps. Since then, Vincent has worked with leftwing political movements around the globe. His writings and interviews have appeared in CounterPunch, Al Jazeera, teleSUR English, ZMagazine, TruthOut and ROAR Magazine. Currently, Vincent hosts a weekly radio program called “Meditations and Molotovs,” which airs every Monday @1:00pm (Chicago Time) on the Progressive Radio Network (prn.fm). He is a member of Veterans for Peace and the National Writers Union.
https://www.facebook.com/meditationsandmolotovs/
Natasha Erskine
news by or about
https://news.wttw.com/2018/08/21/anti-war-activists-honor-1968-chicago-protests-march-rally
Speakers at the rally will include Frank Chapman, who was wrongfully convicted of first-degree murder in 1961 and a leading organizer for the Civilian Police Accountability Council; Natasha Erskine, a U.S. Air Force veteran and community organizer; and Vincent Emanuele, an anti-war veteran and community organizer.
http://www.vvaw.org/veteran/article/?id=3566
Retired Air Force Master Sergeant and Veterans For Peace member, Natasha Erskine said, “I deployed twice, there are some guys who deployed 10 times. The VA is going to get veterans who are even more heartbroken than me when I got back, and I say this as someone who has 11 existing conditions that did not exist when I joined the airforce.”
Veteran Natasha Erskine on losing her identity in the USAF and finding it in activism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLswITkZEiU
https://allevents.in/chicago/veterans-town-hall-education-not-militarization/1512690828792339
Natasha Erskine honorably served on active duty U.S. Air Force assigned to eight bases in Kansas, Nebraska, Virginia and Florida and Turkey, Norway, Germany, Kuwait, United Kingdom. Her final assignment was HQ Air Force Special Operations Command in Ft Walton Beach, Florida. She acted as Command CV-22 Osprey Weapon System Support Manager managing joint spares acquisition for 50 multi-mission vertical-lift CV-22 aircraft valued at $4.4B. She advised AFSOC’s commanding general on logistical support and potential process gaps affecting total mission capable (MICAP) rates. Natasha executed a wide-latitude of responsibilities to ensure mission-ready aircraft availability, liaising with Defense Logistics Agency, Naval Supply Command, Joint Program Office, Air Education and Training Command, two Special Operation Wings, two Special Operations Groups and in support of various special ops deployment missions globally. She retired from active duty on February 1, 2016.
Natasha immediately began grassroots organizing; canvassing during political campaigns in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana. A leader and organizer with Reclaim Chicago and The People’s Lobby; Natasha is determined to see a Chicago, Illinois and nation that works for all of its citizens.
A proud mother to her daughter Arie; a well-rounded, amazing young lady. An incoming freshman, she’ll attend one of Chicago’s Selective Enrollment High Schools. A swim, track & field and music enthusiast; Arie is excited to be on the respective school team.
Steven David Flowers, CAARPR
Not much found.
work by or about
http://www.answerchicago.org/2018/04/april-21-stop-the-u-s-war-on-syria-the-u-s-lies-people-die/
https://www.chi-antiwarcoalition.org/
Fox Valley Citizens For Peace And Justice
http://foxvalleycitizensforpeaceandjustice.org/
https://www.facebook.com/fvc4pnj/
Chicago FRSO Freedom Road Socialist Organization
by or about Chicago FRSO
http://www.fightbacknews.org/2018/2/6/black-liberation-and-socialism-celebrated-chicago
Frank Chapman of FRSO set the stage with an assessment of the current crisis of capitalism…
https://www.workers.org/2018/04/27/chicago-justice-for-jerome-aba/
https://socialistworker.org/2014/04/10/how-do-we-confront-the-right
Green Party of Chicago
http://cookcountygreenparty.org/
http://www.ilgp.org/green_party_chicago
Political Boundaries: City of Chicago
Meetings: 3rd Monday of the month, 7pm, rotating location (email contact person for upcoming locations)
Contact: GPC Chair Michael Harrington, michaelharrington123@gmail.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Green_Party
GPAX Green Party peace action committee
https://gpus.org/committees/peace-action/
Kathy Kelly
Joleen Kirschenman
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joleen-kirschenman-9051a12a/
https://twitter.com/noborders7
Technology consultant, organize to end wars, provide alternative media, build community gardens and promote social, economic and environmental justice.
by or about
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/03/19/anti-war-activists-mark-8th-anniversary-of-iraq-war/
Joleen Kirschenman of the Chicago Coalition Against War and Racism said a number of the demonstrators also were celebrating the ruling Friday of a federal judge, who found that police wrongly arrested the protesters in 2003. U.S. District Judge Richard Posner wrote in his ruling that police acted that day “without justification.”
La Voz de los de Abajo
news by or about
long time Chicago Peace Activist/Podcaster Dale R? Lehman
Found Lehman by his podcasts at http://www.radio4all.net
He shares one of his email addresses on radio4all.net: Dale Lehman
In 2018, appears to live in Evanston IL, and be affiliated with neighbors4peace.
273 radio4all.net podcasts here: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/contributor/2838
Look at http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/filter/contributor/d
Search for at “Dale Lehman” http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/search
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/contributor/5121
links with refs to Dale:
http://pacificanetwork.org/wzrd-defends-free-speech-and-saves-freeform-radio-at-neiu/
WZRD Dale Lehman, WZRD’s News Director
http://news.alayham.com/content/panelists-warn-against-peril-war-ukraine
http://ccawr.org/endorsers/ IMP - good list of orgs
https://www.democracynow.org/2008/9/17/peace_and_social_justice_activists_bring__dn___to_evanston_illinois
https://palestineinamerica.com/2017/06/censorship-evanston-librarian-risks-firing/
Both Williams and Evanston Neighbors for Peace member Dale Lehman connected her experience to that of Steven Salaita, whose scrapped appointment at the University of Illinois under the pretext of civility and instructional fitness based on social media postings during the 2014 Gaza War saw him hounded by Zionists but also sparked a nationwide concerns about academic freedom in an age characterized by corporatized educational structures with outsize donor influence.
Neighbors for Peace - Evanston
(773) 980-9168
bad link: http://www.neighborsforpeace.org/
Northside Action For Justice
https://www.facebook.com/pg/northsideactionforjustice/about/
http://actionforjustice.nationbuilder.com/about
http://northsideactionforjustice.blogspot.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/northside-action-for-justice/
|info@actionforjustice.org | | Call (773) 728-2588 | 1020 W Bryn Mawr #208 | (Edgewater Presbyterian Church Bldg.) | Chicago, IL, 60660
by or about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYTKv6BnVN0
NWSUBPEP Northwest Suburban Peace & Education Project
https://www.facebook.com/pg/NWSUBPEP/notes/
https://nnomypeace.net/index.php/materials-training-26367/groups/174
Contact us email form
North/Northwest Suburban (Chicago) Chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW).
Open University of the Left
https://www.facebook.com/pg/Open.University.of.the.Left/about/
openuniversityoftheleft@gmail.com
http://ouleft.sp-mesolite.tilted.net/
https://www.keywiki.org/Online_University_of_the_Left
youtube OpenUnivoftheLeft: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIZ_969hFecsMFl7N7ERP3Q
by or about
https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/open-university-left-oul-public-library/BestOf?oid=27092089
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9plRNoIjsRA
Chicago PSL Party for Socialism and Liberation
PSL Party for Socialism and Liberation
https://twitter.com/pslchicago?lang=en https://www.facebook.com/pg/PSLChicago/about/
by or about
https://www.pslweb.org/tags/chicago
Chicago Popular Resistance
There does not appear to be an org with this name specific to Chicago as of Sat 29 Sep 2018.
https://popularresistance.org/tag/chicago-teachers-union/
by or about
https://popularresistance.org/healthcare-advocates-block-chicago-streets/
Anne Scheetz, a Chicago-area doctor for Single Payer; Husband Jim Rhodes
by or about
http://ilsinglepayer.org/article/dr-anne-scheetz-america-needs-improved-medicare-all
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/may/doctor_singlepayer.php
http://www.ilsinglepayer.org/illinois-single-payer-coalition
Jim Rodes https://www.ilsinglepayer.org/article/jim-rhodes-oral-and-written-testimony-hb108-2-18-15
https://www.facebook.com/jim.rhodes.31542
Cindy Sheehan; Cindy Lee Miller Sheehan
http://cindysheehanssoapbox.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/cindyleesheehan
https://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/portraits/cindy-sheehan
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cindy-Sheehan
by or about
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/cindy-sheehan
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/205417.Cindy_Sheehan
Peace Mom: A Mother’s Journey through Heartache to Activism
familiarity: 10+ years
Chicago SlutWalk
by or about
https://www.reddit.com/r/chicago/comments/goqde/slutwalk_chicago/
https://newsandletters.org/slutwalk-in-chicago/
https://www.mapado.com/en/chicago/the-origins-of-slutwalk-meet-n-greet
Southern Illinois Peace Coalition
http://www.sipeace.org/www/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1
by or about
http://www.ilym.org/peaceresources/?cat=13
http://www.answercoalition.org/u_s_hands_off_syria_coalition_points_of_unity_statement
David Swanson intro
has long lived and worked in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Contact email: david at davidswanson dot org
https://www.youtube.com/user/davidcnswanson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Swanson
https://twitter.com/davidcnswanson
https://worldbeyondwar.org/david-swanson/
https://www.facebook.com/davidcnswanson/
https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson
http://davidswanson.org/about/
by or about
https://rootsaction.org/component/search/?searchword=david+swanson&ordering=&searchphrase=all
http://warisacrime.org/author/davidswanson/
familiarity: 5+ years
Andy Thayer
https://twitter.com/lgbtliberation?lang=en
https://www.keywiki.org/Andy_Thayer
http://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-chicagolive-guest-andy-thayer-html-htmlstory.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Thayer
co-founder of Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism
Work by or about Andy Thayer
https://www.loevy.com/blog/author/andythayer/
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/lgbtliberation-686
https://chicago.suntimes.com/person/andy-thayer/
https://muckrack.com/andy-thayer/articles
http://www.cultureofpeaceconference.org/program.html
NAARPR National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
http://naarpr.org/caarpr-steering-committee/
https://www.keywiki.org/National_Alliance_Against_Racist_and_Political_Repression
news by or about
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2015/11/22/city/survivor-of-mexican-student-tragedy-visits-evanston/
https://newsandletters.org/seeking-justice-for-43-in-ayotzinapa/
United States Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)
by or about
http://uspcn.org/2015/04/30/uspcn-in-solidarity-with-the-black-community-of-baltimore/
VVAW Vietnam Veterans Against the War
http://www.vvaw.org/veteran/
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Vietnam_Veterans_Against_the_War
https://www.revolvy.com/page/Vietnam-Veterans-Against-the-War
by or about
http://www.vvaw.org/veteran/article/?id=700&print=yes
http://www.vietvet.org/vvaw.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_Veterans_Against_the_War
Voices for Creative Nonviolence in Chicago
1249 W Argyle St
Chicago, Illinois
Call (773) 878-3815
https://twitter.com/info_from_vcnv?lang=en
http://old.vcnv.org/
https://local.yahoo.com/info-191830925-creative-non-violence-voices-chicago
by or about
https://charterforcompassion.org/voices-for-creative-nonviolence
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/tag/voices-for-creative-nonviolence/
https://www.northernspiritradio.org/episode/kathy-kelly-voices-creative-nonviolence-walk-chicago-twin-cities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vP59fK6llA
WRL War Resisters League
https://www.warresisters.org/national-office
https://www.warresisters.org/wrl-local-chapters-affiliates-and-contacts
https://warresisters.wordpress.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Resisters_League
https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/war-resisters-league
https://www.facebook.com/resistwar/
https://twitter.com/resistwar
https://twitter.com/warresistersint
https://twitter.com/resistwar/status/917797265955282945
by or about
https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/05213/
https://www.warresisters.org/frontlines-chicago-we-need-your-support
https://www.warresisters.org/unwelcome-natog8-wrl-chicago-may-18-19
https://www.warresisters.org/swatstories
https://www.warresisters.org/win/win-spring-2012/street-heat-chicago-protesters-prepare-nato
https://www.facebook.com/resistwar/posts/chicago-lets-stopitoa-disarm2unitetoday-230pm-nw-corner-of-millennium-park-not-i/1225365400817675/
IL GP Rich Whitney
http://www.gp.org/rich_whitney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Whitney https://www.facebook.com/richwhitneyIL https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Whitney
by or about Rich Whitney
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/09/05/why-i-choose-to-take-a-stand-by-taking-a-knee/
Rich Whitney is an attorney, disk jockey, environmental and peace activist, co-chair of the Illinois Green Party and Green Party candidate for County Board in Jackson County, Illinois. He is active with the Green Party Peace Action Committee, United National Antiwar Coalition and Chicago Committee Against War and Racism, among other organizations.
http://gpax.gpus.org/protest-war-and-racism-in-chicago-on-august-25th/
https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/2018/04/05/co-chair-of-illinois-green-party-discusses-benefits-of-free-higher-education/
http://chicagoist.com/2006/11/01/interview_rich_whitney_green_party_candidate_for_illinois_governor.php
Workers World Party Chicago
Call (312) 620-2305
chicago@workers.org
https://www.workers.org/contact-ww/workers-world/
1105 N. Ashland Ave.
Chicago, IL 60622
312-620-2305
E-mail:Chicago@Workers.org
https://twitter.com/wwpchicago?lang=en
by or about
https://www.workers.org/2018/06/30/workers-world-opens-chicago-solidarity-center/
World Beyond War Chicago
https://worldbeyondwar.org/chicago/
World Beyond War’s Chicago Chapter is led by World Beyond War’s Organizer Mary Dean.
[…]
Mary Dean is Organizer at World Beyond War. She worked previously for various social justice and antiwar organizations, including leading delegations to Afghanistan, Guatemala, and Cuba. Mary also traveled on human rights delegations to several other war zones, and has done volunteer accompaniment in Honduras. In addition she worked as a paralegal for prisoner rights, including initiating a bill in Illinois to limit solitary confinement. In the past, Mary spent six months in federal prison for nonviolently protesting the U.S. Army School of the Americas
Contact Mary Dean 872-223-4463.
https://www.facebook.com/worldbeyondwar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_War
by or about
Mary Dean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvl-WkakxPo
Chicago Veterans for Peace
https://twitter.com/demilitarizecps?lang=en
CAWC Chicago Anti-War Coalition
TODO: is this related to CCAWR?
https://www.facebook.com/ChicagoAntiWar/
“stub/amateur website”: https://www.chi-antiwarcoalition.org/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClWeyxCDRv6jFEY7-ApRtcQ
https://plus.google.com/104128148601321874378
by or about CAWC
http://www.gp.org/chicago_1968_2018
Chicago Anti-War Coalition chi-antiwarcoalition.org
I have not found much of a web presence:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/chicagoantiwarcoalition/posts/
https://www.facebook.com/pg/chicagoantiwarcoalition/events/
https://www.facebook.com/pg/chicagoantiwarcoalition/about/
The website appears to be a “placeholder”: https://www.chi-antiwarcoalition.org/
North Shore Coalition for Peace and Justice (NSCPJ)
news by or about North Shore Coalition for Peace and Justice (NSCPJ)
http://antiwarcommitteechicago.blogspot.com/2013/09/midwest-action-against-drones-maad.html
A.N.S.W.E.R. ANSWER Chicago
https://www.facebook.com/ANSWERChicago/
3460 W. Lawrence
Chicago, Illinois
Call (773) 885-3991
answer@chicagoanswer.net
https://twitter.com/answerchicago
by or about
http://www.answercoalition.org/chicago
4802 N. Broadway #202, Chicago, IL 60640
773-885-3991
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.N.S.W.E.R.
PSL Party for Socialism and Liberation
https://www.facebook.com/PSLMilwaukee/
https://twitter.com/pslweb?lang=en
https://www.facebook.com/pg/pslweb/about/
https://www.liberationnews.org/home-page/about/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_for_Socialism_and_Liberation
https://keywiki.org/Party_for_Socialism_and_Liberation
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Party_for_Socialism_and_Liberation
United National Antiwar Coalition
https://www.unacpeace.org/about.html
https://www.facebook.com/pg/EndTheWars/about/
https://www.keywiki.org/United_National_Antiwar_Coalition
https://www.facebook.com/groups/unac1/
by or about
http://nepajac.org/syria.htm
https://www.workers.org/wwp/us-united-national-antiwar-coalition-unac/
WZRD is a 100-watt, non-commercial FM, freeform radio station, operating from Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago
is a 100-watt, non-commercial FM, freeform radio station, operating from Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago
Bruce Colburn (Milwaukee activist) intro
https://keywiki.org/Bruce_Colburn
Atlantic Council
TODO
https://www.facebook.com/AtlanticCouncil
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Council
propornot
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-25/propornot-unmasked
Aug 2018 book: ‘Giants: The Global Power Elite’ by Peter M Phillips - 389 elites of global capitalism
Peter Phillips discusses the Atlantic Council: Pls listen: Audio Interview of Peter Phillips on his new book. (You have to skip in 17:30 for start of interview.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np6td-wzDYQ
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40923001-giants
Foxconn hiring events
MOUNT PLEASANT — The Foxconn Technology Group will be holding its first hiring fair from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. next Saturday, Oct. 13, at 13315 Globe Drive in Mount Pleasant, near the intersection of Highway 20 and Interstate 94.
Mount Pleasant, WI
Foxconn Technology Group Hiring Fair
Saturday October 13, 2018
07:00 - 19:00 CST
Scott Noble intro
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Scott_Noble
https://www.facebook.com/metanoiafilms.org/
Work by or about scott noble
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/11/17/how-the-elite-deal-with-sparks-of-revolt/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_Principle
HUMAN RESOURCES Social Engineering In The 20th Century HQ FULL|youtube
https://stuartbramhall.wordpress.com/tag/scott-noble/
familiarity: since Oct 2018
Jane Anne Morris intro | 1954-2019
https://communityrights.us/2019/06/18/jane-anne-morris-corporate-anthropologist-a-tribute-to-her-extraordinary-life-work/
http://democracythemepark.org/
http://democracythemepark.org/videos/
https://wilpf-madison.org/2019/03/22/tribute-to-jane-anne-morris/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POCLAD
http://www.midlandauthors.com/morris.html
https://afdportland.wordpress.com/tag/jane-anne-morris/
http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/102964
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yjWb0jwbOg
http://poclad.org/BWA/1998/BWA_1998_FALL.html
http://poclad.org/
Work by or about Jane Anne Morris
http://www.midlandauthors.com/morris.html
familiarity: since 2019
Howie Hawkins intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howie_Hawkins
In 1984, Hawkins was one of the co-founders of the Green Party in the United States. Hawkins advocated that instead of trying to build the national party from the top down through a presidential campaign as the Peace and Freedom, Peoples, and Citizens parties had done, the Greens should build local organizations and contest local elections until they had enough of a base to launch a presidential campaign, which the Greens finally did 12 years later when they drafted Ralph Nader and Winona LaDuke as their presidential ticket in 1996.
https://twitter.com/howiehawkins
http://www.gp.org/howie_hawkins
https://everipedia.org/wiki/Howie_Hawkins/
https://www.facebook.com/HowieHawkinsForGovernor/
Work by or about Howi Hawkins
https://ballotpedia.org/Howie_Hawkins
http://www.howiehawkins.org/issues
https://everipedia.org/wiki/Green_Party_of_New_York/
Chicago Civilian Police Accountability Council [Legislation]
Moving audio (Oct 2018) of press conf announcing that CPAC will be presented to Chicago City Council for a vote: http://www.radio4all.net/files/dalerlehman@yahoo.com/2838-1-CPAC_PressConference102318.mp3
At the time, only members of 50 on the City Council support CPAC.
Stop Police Crimes: http://naarpr.org/join-campaign-police-accountability/
Legislation to Create CPAC
Summary of the Draft Legislation for an elected Civilian Police Accountability Council enabling prosecution of criminal police abuse of human rights
http://naarpr.org/legislation-create-cpac/
The Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, together with representatives of many community-based organizations, has drafted a proposal for establishing a democratic, elected, Civilian Police Accountability Council (CPAC) in Chicago. Attorneys working with the CAARPR Task Force on Police Crimes is perfecting this proposal. It includes a strong prosecutorial component – CPAC may petition the Chief Judge of the U. S. District Court to allow criminal charges before a sitting Grand Jury when police commit a crime such as battery, unlawful arrest, racial profiling, torture, rape, and murder when committed by police officers. Illinois has abolished the death penalty. It should strive to abolish the arbitrary use of deadly force by police.
http://naarpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Council-Ready-Proposed-Legislation.pdf
CPAC Chicago: Elected Civilian Police Accountability Council:
analog-equivalent-privacy-rights
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/12/analog-equivalent-privacy-rights-analog-anonymous-letter/ 2/21
https://falkvinge.net/2017/12/20/analog-equivalent-rights-posting-anonymous-public-message/ 3/21
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/12/analog-equivalent-privacy-rights-our-children-have-lost-privacy-of-location/ 4/21
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/12/analog-equivalent-privacy-rights-where-did-freedom-of-assembly-go/ 5/21
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/12/analog-equivalent-privacy-rights-everything-say-think-will-used-future/ 6/21
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/12/analog-equivalent-privacy-rights-analog-libraries-were-private-searches-for-information/ 7/21
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/12/analog-equivalent-privacy-rights-using-third-party-services-not-cancel-expectation-privacy/ 8/21
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/01/analog-equivalent-privacy-rights-government-knows-what-you-read/ 9/21
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/01/analog-equivalent-privacy-rights-analog-journalism-was-protected-digital-journalism-prosecutable/ 10/21
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/01/analog-equivalent-privacy-rights-our-parents-used-anonymous-cash/ 11/21
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/01/analog-equivalent-privacy-rights-our-parents-bought-things-untracked/ 12/21
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/01/analog-equivalent-privacy-rights-our-digital-children-are-tracked-not-just-in-everything-they-buy-but-in-what-they-dont-buy/ 13/21
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/01/analog-equivalent-privacy-rights-our-analog-parents-dating-preferences-werent-tracked-recorded-and-catalogued/ 14/21
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/01/analog-equivalent-privacy-rights-our-analog-parents-conversations-werent-prevented-on-a-per-topic-basis/ 15/21
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/02/analog-equivalent-privacy-rights-our-childrens-privacy-and-data-retention/ 16/21
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/02/analog-equivalent-privacy-rights-previous-inviolability-diaries/ 17/21
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/02/analog-equivalent-privacy-rights-our-analog-parents-had-private-conversations-with-friends-and-at-home/ 18/21
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/03/analog-equivalent-privacy-rights-telescreens-in-our-living-rooms/ 19/21
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/03/analog-equivalent-privacy-rights-your-analog-boss-couldnt-read-your-mail-ever/ 20/21
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/03/analog-equivalent-privacy-rights-21-21-conclusion-privacy-has-been-eliminated-from-the-digital-environment/ 21/21
Margaret Flowers intro
http://www.gp.org/dr_margaret_flowers
https://www.keywiki.org/Margaret_Flowers
https://ballotpedia.org/Margaret_Flowers
https://twitter.com/mflowers8?lang=en
https://writingforpeace.org/about/writing-for-peace-advisory-panel/dr-margaret-flowers/
https://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/portraits/dr-margaret-flowers
https://www.facebook.com/MargaretFlowersMD/
Work by or about
https://www.globalresearch.ca/author/margaret-flowers
http://www.greenpartywatch.org/tag/margaret-flowers/
Interview of Howie Hawkins by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
Skip in 17:39: http://traffic.libsyn.com/clearingthefogradioshow/CtF_Show_12_31_18.mp3?dest-id=122538
clearingthefogradioshow podcast with Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese
RSS feed: http://clearingthefogradioshow.libsyn.com/rss
Peter William Ford intro
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Peter_Ford
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Peter_Ford_(diplomat)
Work by or about Peter William Ford
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2018/04/19/former-uk-ambassador-reveals-truth-about-syria-ron-paul-interviews-peter-ford/
familiarity: since ~2017
John Negroponte intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Negroponte
https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Negroponte
http://www.nndb.com/people/813/000044681/
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_D._Negroponte
https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/John_Negroponte/
Work by or about John Negroponte
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/john-negroponte-s-bloody-baggage/ https://www.counterpunch.org/2004/06/04/who-is-john-negroponte/
Interview of Marzieh Hashemi - minute by minute story
skip in 23:47 http://www.radio4all.net/files/CPRmetro@gmail.com/4910-3-WEEKDAY_WORLD_012819_part_3_of_3.mp3
Background story: https://www.mintpressnews.com/detained-american-iranian-tv-anchor-marzieh-hashemi-to-appear-in-court/253993/
Iran: PressTV reporter Hashemi back home after US detention: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTCTCV0MmOU | https://youtu.be/wi_ou1dgrjI
Robert Swan Mueller III (Robert Mueller) intro
Just started research on him on Thu 31 Jan 2019. Will try to add more soon.
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Robert_Mueller
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mueller
https://www.biography.com/people/robert-mueller-241110
Work by or about Robert Mueller
A comprehensive article with many links, by Eric Zuesse worth study/re-reading: https://washingtonsblog.com/2019/03/muellers-record-of-framing-innocent-people-to-protect-the-guilty.html
http://accuracy.org/release/911-whistleblower-rowley-on-muellers-history-of-cover-up/
http://accuracy.org/release/mueller-and-barrs-real-history-of-cover-ups/
https://www.globalresearch.ca/former-fbi-director-robert-muellers-history-of-cover-ups/5635272
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:Coleen_Rowley_Memo
Interview in Feb 2019 of Coleen Rowley on Mueller investigation: ( skip in 2:27 ) http://www.radio4all.net/files/CPRmetro@gmail.com/4910-2-WEEKDAY_WORLD_022219_part_2_of_3.mp3
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/06/21/at-fbi-mueller-oversaw-post-911-torture/
Robert J Burrowes intro
https://www.counterpunch.org/author/robtburr0291
https://wsimag.com/authors/616-robert-j-dot-burrowes
http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/author/rjburrowes/
Work by or about Robert J Burrowes
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1701/S00080/nonviolent-action-why-and-how-it-works-robert-j-burrowes.htm
https://vimeo.com/user9601550
familiarity: since Wed 27 Mar 2019
health impact of flame-retardant chemicals
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/12/11/8-flame-retardant-facts.aspx
Female firefighters aged 40 to 50 are six times more likely to develop breast cancer than the national average, likely due to California’s early use of flame-retardant chemicals. Firefighters of both genders also have higher rates of cancer, in part because of the high levels of dioxins and furans they’re exposed to when flame-retardant chemicals burn.
Pierre Omidyar intro
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Pierre_Omidyar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Omidyar
https://www.forbes.com/profile/pierre-omidyar/#34aa532266da
https://theintercept.com/policies/
https://www.biography.com/people/pierre-omidyar-9542205
https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/Pierre_Omidyar/
https://www.nndb.com/people/090/000026012/
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Pierre_Omidyar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Look_Media
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay
Work by or about Pierre Omidyar
https://therealnews.com/stories/with-reality-winner-sentenced-does-the-intercept-owe-answers
familiarity: since ~2016
Doug Rawlings /Vets for Peace/ intro
https://www.facebook.com/doug.rawlings.56
Doug Rawlings: rawlings –at– maine.edu
Work by or about Doug Rawlings
https://couragetoresist.org/podcast-doug-rawlings/
https://www.vietnamfulldisclosure.org/tag/doug-rawlings/
https://www.vietnamfulldisclosure.org/
https://www.commondreams.org/author/doug-rawlings
Doug Rawlings on Peace Studies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aYG-yCZMh8
https://www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/site/2668/page/4288/display
https://www.veteransforpeace.org/take-action/2014-memorials-may/doug-rawlings-war-memorials
2010 youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ulw4jlzXeE
He is active at http://vfpmaine.org/
https://www.mainepublic.org/post/doug-rawlings-impressions-vietnam-war-documentary-episode
https://couragetoresist.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/CourageToResist-DougRawlings.mp3
familiarity: since Wed 10 Apr 2019
Thierry Meyssan intro
https://www.voltairenet.org/auteur29.html?lang=en
http://www.axisforpeace.net/
https://twitter.com/ThierryMeyssan
https://www.facebook.com/Thierry-Meyssan-172492602886603/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thierry-meyssan-32aa6592
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChEHg1wdrTLnefUcgKmg0Fg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thierry_Meyssan
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Thierry_Meyssan
https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/Thierry_Meyssan/
https://www.quora.com/topic/Thierry-Meyssan
http://www.thefullwiki.org/Thierry_Meyssan
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q732928
Mexican Journalists award Thierry Meyssan the International Prize
https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/eva-bartlett/
In March 2017, Mexico City, Bartlett was granted the “International Journalism Award for International Reporting” by the Mexican Press Club. Co-recipients included John Pilger and political analyst Thierry Meyssan, among others.
Work by or about Thierry Meyssan
https://www.globalresearch.ca/author/thierry-meyssan
https://orientalreview.org/author/ts/
https://www.mintpressnews.com/author/thierry-meyssan/
https://russia-insider.com/en/thierry-meyssan
https://www.amazon.com/Thierry-Meyssan/e/B001JOXXB4/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1
https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Thierry+Meyssan%22
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/165648.Thierry_Meyssan
familiarity: since at least 2014
John Judge intro
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/John_Judge
Work by or about John Judge
http://911blogger.com/news/2010-08-01/conversation-researcher-and-lecturer-john-judge
Insider Col. L. Fletcher Prouty discusses the JFK Assassination and America’s Clandestine History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ0zLoy9FKM&feature=youtu.be
https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/
https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/JohnJudge1947-2014.html
https://jfkfacts.org/tag/john-judge/
http://assassinationofjfk.net/john-judge-at-his-finest/
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/16031-john-judge/
https://www.justice-integrity.org/683-memorial-for-civic-activist-john-judge-revives-legacy
The 1978 Jonestown Massacre-NO CYANIDE DEATHS
https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/Jonestown.html
familiarity: since Sat 13 Apr 2019
RSS feeds / Podcast listening |RSS Podcatcher How to
This is not about, podcast hosting via itunes, stitcher, podbean, soundcloud … It is about RSS – using RSS for subscribing and listening to free podcasts without using your web browser.
RSS (March 1999) predates itunes and twitter. Twitter was based in RSS. RSS is an open standard, not tied to any company, so it will not go away anytime soon. Fortunately RSS is integrated into almost every wordpress website. RSS shares some of the simple features of email - a title or subject line for each entry, a (usually) short message body of text, a release timestamp or date – so RSS entries sort by date, and like email the concept of an RSS enclosure (e.g. mp3 audio podcast) which is like an email attachment.
RSS podcast feeds are web hosted lists that contain, URLs to (mp3) audio files. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_podcasting#The_RSS_connection ) Like wordpress-blog RSS feeds, they are updated chronologically, each has a URL, and like email each has a date and summary or subject line. In addition each entry usually has a summary paragraph. Typically only 10 entries are saved by the RSS server; some sites serve out a much longer list – perhaps up to 200.
You need two tools, both of which are available as free, open source software:
A Podcatcher Client or phone app to look for updates to your favorite podcasts.
An audio player, for example VLC,
Your podcatcher software keeps a log of each time your podcatcher client software polls an RSS feed that you subscribe to. It will only alert you to new entries that it finds since the last time you ran the podcatcher client.
You configure your podcatcher with a subcription list of podcast feeds that you like. At least once a day I run my podcatcher to look through all the feeds I am subscribed to, for new podcasts. My podcatcher is setup to list (not download), then later I decide which ones to download/play in a manual step; you could configure your podcatcher to download all new podcasts if you want – that uses more computer resources and will clutter up your disk drive, but it is a workable approach.
Choosing and setting up your Podcatcher Client
This “shopping” & learning step will take effort on your part, but it is worth it. Even though your podcatcher software will probably be free, you have to shop around, study/compare features; then try and test. The tool I use works great for me, but I hesitate to promote it because it is command line based; still – feel free to ask for help on this step by emailing me.
Discovering RSS podcast feeds
Look for the orange RSS symbol on a podcast web page. In general it is a bit of work to find the feeds themselves; sometimes they are featured, sometimes they are treated as second class elements in deference to itunes, stitcher, sound cloud etc.
You can get started though by picking a few RSS podcast feeds from my list.
Tim Hayward intro |Edinburgh UK
( Professor of Environmental Political Theory )
https://timhayward.wordpress.com/
https://twitter.com/Tim_Hayward_
has contact info: http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/people/academic_staff/hayward_tim
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/TimHayward
https://www.humansandnature.org/tim-hayward
https://www.facebook.com/groups/237911276263504/
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=CBMwVPMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Tim_Hayward
Work by or about Tim Hayward
https://www.amazon.com/Tim-Hayward/e/B001HOA92C/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1
Media on Trial 2017 : Tim Hayward | youtube 2017
familiarity: since ~March 2019
Monroe County WI Anti Frac Activism
https://communityrights.us/2019/05/23/group-seeks-sand-mine-ban/
https://heartofthehocak.wordpress.com/anti-frac-sand-mining-information/
https://www.facebook.com/St-Croix-River-Communities-Against-Frac-Sand-Mining-892615581078623/
https://monroecountysandmines.blogspot.com/
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/d7n263/Monroe_County_WI_Planning_Zoning_Mtg_5-20-2019.mp3
Sorry, low level audio, slow paced, you have to strain to hear; I think it is worth the effort. Suggest you listen to in pieces, since it is an effort.
R S Ahthion intro
https://www.counterpunch.org/author/rs-ahthion/
Not much luck finding info on this apparently young author.
Work by or about R S Ahthion
In June 2019 his website http://rsahthion.co.uk/Articles.html is mostly a shell.
familiarity: since Jun 2019
Wisconsin political maps
WI Senate districts (tweek as needed)
itunes, stitcher, podbean, soundcloud, libsyn…
podcast hosting services
art19.com
audioboom.com
buzzsprout
feedburner.com
google play
itunes
libsyn
podbean
podtrac.com
radio4all.net
simplecast.com
soundcloud
spotify
spreaker
stitcher
Some of the above make it easy for the podcaster to share an RSS feed. In most cases though the end user has to go to a related website and click multiple times before they hear anything.
finding an RSS feed hosted by itunes, stitcher, podbean, soundcloud, libsyn…
Try podcast search here: https://podcastaddict.com/ :rssfind:
Use this>> http://www.getrssfeed.com/
“Paste the Apple Podcast / Google Podcast / SoundCloud / Website URL … and let the service retrieve the podcast public RSS feed for you”
Examples that worked:
https://soundcloud.com/new-jersey-revolution-radio to http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:219451196/sounds.rss
https://soundcloud.com/user-182465442 to http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:245586665/sounds.rss
https://soundcloud.com/mattehret to https://soundcloud.com/mattehret?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
via dns search
https://securitytrails.com/list/apex_domain enter in a search string best!:
apex_domain = 'podbean.com':
https://securitytrails.com/list/apex_domain/podbean.com
https://securitytrails.com/list/apex_domain/libsyn.commore soundcloud
https://caiustheory.com/soundcloud-rss-feeds/
http://picklemonkey.net/feedflipper-home/
http://picklemonkey.net/feedflipper-home/ is supposed to convert itunes to RSS. As I use it I will plan to add notes here.
misc methods to find RSS feeds
http://www.getrssfeed.com/ itubes torss, not tested
http://picklemonkey.net/feedflipper-home/
https://www.podcastinsights.com/podcast-rss-feed/#How_To_Find_YourPodcast_RSS_Feed
https://www.buzzsprout.com/help/31-itunes-and-your-rss-feed
https://blog.libsyn.com/2012/11/29/how-to-manually-subscribe-to-a-podcast-rss-feed-in-itunes-11/
https://www.apple.com/rss/
cprnews.podbean.com. 300 IN CNAME podbean-com-ws-7-72851604.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com.
stitcher, spotify, spreaker, google play
- https://support.bitchute.com/content/converting-a-bitchute-channel-into-an-rss-feed
- https://www.bitchute.com/feeds/rss/channel/CHANNELNAME e.g.: <https://www.bitchute.com/feeds/rss/channel/sgt-report>
- youtube channel RSS feed | feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=THE_CHANNEL_ID_HERE
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=THE_CHANNEL_ID_HERE
ex in liferea used https://www.youtube.com/c/theprogressive for the source. liferea then auto converted source to https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCl65R0kPElDDdms008pnPxQ
Just use the channel URL itself, as in https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSHZKyawb77ixDdsGog4iWA https://danielmiessler.com/blog/rss-feed-youtube-channel/ http://tips.slaw.ca/2019/technology/rss-feed-for-a-youtube-channel-or-playlist/ https://gist.github.com/tjluoma/fdbc63ceb78a2aecd3d638fd18b6ec6e
COG Continuity of Government
- This section was resurrected from my notes made on Sat 22 Jan 2011.
Prof Peter Dale Scott, FED emergency declarations suspending US Constitution:
http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/archive/ug535-hour1mix.mp3
http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/archive/ug535-hour2mix.mp3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%5FDale%5FScott
Continuity of Gov: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuity%5Fof%5FOperations%5FPlan
http://911blogger.com/news/2010-12-02/state-emergency-superseding-us-constitution-continuity-government-planning-war-and-american-society-peter
https://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19238
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%5FEndgame
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northcom
http://www.oilempire.us/northcom.html
The creation of NORTHCOM in April 2002, constitutes a
blatant violation of both Canadian and Mexican territorial
sovereignty. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced
unilaterally that US Northern Command would have jurisdiction
over the entire North American region. Canada and Mexico were
presented with a fait accompli. US Northern Command’s jurisdiction
as outlined by the US DoD includes, in addition to the continental
US, all of Canada, Mexico, as well as portions of the Caribbean,
contiguous waters in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans up to 500
miles off the Mexican, US and Canadian coastlines as well as the
Canadian Arctic.
Sara A Carter intro
https://saraacarter.com/about/
https://twitter.com/SaraCarterDC
https://www.earnthenecklace.com/sara-carter-wiki-fox-news-career-facts/
https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/sara-carter-reporter/
https://www.iwf.org/about/sara-carter
https://www.instagram.com/scarterdc/?hl=en
Work by or about Sara A Carter
https://muckrack.com/sara-carter/articles
https://www.foxnews.com/person/c/sara-carter
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collection of links for Catherine Austin Fitts
Sat 05 Jul 2008 (w/updates a few since then)
TODO: update! This is dated/probably has bad links!
https://www.mintpressnews.com/shocking-origins-jeffrey-epstein-blackmail-roy-cohn/260621/
Though BCCI was known for its CIA links, Catherine Austin Fitts — former Assistant Secretary for Housing–Federal Housing Commissioner at HUD during the George H. W. Bush administration, and investment banker with the firms Hamilton Securities Group and Dillon, Read & Co. — believes that those links went well beyond the CIA. Fitts — who was placed on the board of the BCCI subsidiary First American Bank following BCCI’s collapse — told MintPress that, after reading through troves of documents regarding the bank’s activities prior to its implosion, it was clear to her that there was “no way” its clandestine activities were carried on without the full knowledge of the Federal Reserve, specifically the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the White House.
Catherine Austin Fitts (born December 24, 1950) is an American investment banker and former public official who served as managing director of Dillon, Read & Co. and, during the Presidency of George H.W. Bush, as United States Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Housing. She has widely written and commented on the subject of public spending and has alleged several large-scale instances of government fraud.
- Catherine Austin Fitts economic analysis, FED lowers rate to ~0% - skip in 5m 30s http://aud1.kpfa.org/data/20081217-Wed1700.mp3
- http://aud1.kpfa.org/data/20070906-Thu1400.mp3
- http://aud1.kpfa.org/data/20070913-Thu1400.mp3
she was on KPFA’s flashpoints show each Wed, here’s an example.. you need to advance 44m into this show to hear her segment:
interesting attack on Fitts:
Navigating the falling dollar video:
her blog: https://www.solari.com/blog
Social Media Basics/Overview
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_blog_hosting_services
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_microblogging_services
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumblr
Epstein | reference-collection
Whitney Webb Speaks w/ The First Epstein Victim To Come Forward, About A MSM Cover Up, Naming Names https://youtu.be/miDWjOjXDHE #MariaFarmer | Apr 2020
4 part summer 2019 Epstein-investigation series by Whitney Webb
Interview of Whitney Webb: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/672459515-guns-and-butter-1-how-alliance-of-intelligence-organized-crime-gave-rise-to-jeffrey-epstein-whitney-webb-410.mp3
July 18 2019 part I https://www.mintpressnews.com/shocking-origins-jeffrey-epstein-blackmail-roy-cohn/260621/
Given Trump’s involvement w/Roy Cohn and Epstein, Trump had to know about Epstein’s blackmail sex parties.
July 25 2019 part II: https://www.mintpressnews.com/blackmail-jeffrey-epstein-trump-mentor-reagan-era/260760/
Aug 7 part III: https://www.mintpressnews.com/mega-group-maxwells-mossad-spy-story-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/261172/
Aug 23 part IV https://www.mintpressnews.com/genesis-jeffrey-epstein-bill-clinton-relationship/261455/
Dayna Long intro
Dayna Long is a socialist activist in Madison. She has also been published in Socialist Worker and International Socialist Review.
http://socialistworker.org/author/dayna-long
Work by or about Dayna Long
https://www.tonemadison.com/articles/pitching-a-400-tent-on-state-street
https://www.tonemadison.com/articles?author=5c85bf6e7817f7cf02c88e2e
https://isreview.org/person/dayna-long
https://rewire.news/author/dayna-long/
Is this the same Dayna Long?:
John D Caputo intro
I do not know what to make of John D Caputo, but I tripped over this perplexing lecture: https://archive.org/download/johncaputolectures/format=VBR+MP3&ignore=x.mp3 and decided to do some quick web searches on him today in Sep 2019:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Caputo
https://www.westarinstitute.org/membership/westar-fellows/fellows-directory/john-d-caputo/
https://www.facebook.com/John.D.Caputo/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Caputo_bibliography
https://fampeople.com/cat-john-d-caputo
Work by or about John D Caputo
I tripped over this lecture and thus found Caputo: https://archive.org/download/johncaputolectures/format=VBR+MP3&ignore=x.mp3
https://archive.org/details/johncaputolectures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQRsCqiVX-g
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/17913.John_D_Caputo
https://trippfuller.com/2019/05/31/john-caputo-tillich-and-a-radical-theology-of-culture/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31858.Philosophy_and_Theology
https://www.metanexus.net/hermeneutics-kingdom-god-john-caputo-and-deconstruction-christianity/
http://thecollege.syr.edu/people/faculty/pages/rel/_PDFs-others/PHI600F10.pdf
https://books.google.com/books/about/On_Religion.html?id=Q2xwIMwy_YEC
familiarity: since Mon 09 Sep 2019
Peter Ford intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ford_(diplomat)
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Peter_Ford
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Peter_Ford
https://alchetron.com/Peter-Ford-(diplomat)
https://www.revolvy.com/page/Peter-Ford-%28diplomat%29
https://wikiupdates.info/wiki/Peter_Ford_(diplomat)-8284028246
by or about
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/peter-ford
https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/peter-ford
familiarity: (estimated) since ~2018
CHI activist Frank Chapman intro
Work by or about Frank Chapman
Oct 2019 skip in 38m 30s https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/19558790/loud_clear_924.mp3
https://www.fightbacknews.org/tags/frank-chapman?page=1
http://www.radio4all.net/files/dalerlehman@yahoo.com/2838-1-CPACDSAFrank_Chapman.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/dalerlehman@yahoo.com/2838-1-Frank_Chapman@FriendsMeeting.mp3
http://www.radio4all.net/files/dalerlehman@yahoo.com/2838-1-CPAC_PressConference102318.mp3
familiarity: since early 2019?
Global Geolocation (Geocodes) in human friendly text
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocode
what3words geocodes
Proprietary: https://what3words.com/
Opensource: https://whatfreewords.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What3words
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/What3words
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21196402
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20970664
Open Location Code (google)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Location_Code
Lookup a location: ( start w/https://maps.google.com ) then follow: https://plus.codes/individuals
Consider
The Open Location Code is: 3X4W+X5 Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
The lat/long is: 43.057392, -88.004553
It appears that the Open Location Code is slighly lower res than the lat/long. Perhaps as much 10 yards difference.
Very good resolution: https://what3words.com/haven.dine.rested
yahoogroups is shutting down
What are these groups planning to do?:
Milwaukee_Coalition_Just_Peace@yahoogroups.com
milwaukeepeace@yahoogroups.com
progressivewisconsin@yahoogroups.com
Owners of these groups may want to read Tim Ballering’s approach:
http://justalandlord.com/what-ive-learned-about-moving-a-yahoogroup/
I’m not endorsing what Tim did, but it seems to be fine so far ( I subscribe to his list). I know nothing about group.io – I believe Tim is paying them for a premium version. If you are hardcore FLOSS and had the time to setup and maintain, then you might host your own mailing list server and perhaps run GNU Mailman.
Gregory Shupak intro
https://twitter.com/gregshupak?lang=en
Not much in the various wikis or *pedias as of Mon 21 Oct 2019.
Work by or about Gregory Shupak
https://www.jacobinmag.com/author/greg-shupak
https://www.orbooks.com/greg-shupak/
https://fair.org/author/gregory-shupak/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/gregory-shupak
https://electronicintifada.net/people/greg-shupak
https://www.commondreams.org/author/gregory-shupak
https://inthesetimes.com/community/profile/118736
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/greg-shupak
https://www.salon.com/writer/gregory-shupak
https://worldbeyondwar.org/talk-nation-radio-gregory-shupak-case-bombing-isis/
https://prruk.org/author/gregory-shupak/
https://www.filmsforaction.org/author/gregory-shupak/
familiarity: since Mon 21 Oct 2019
CELDF overview/links
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Community_Environmental_Legal_Defense_Fund
CELDF was “established in 1995”
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheCELDF
https://www.facebook.com/CELDF/
https://www.guidestar.org/profile/25-1760934
by or about CELDF
1st CELDF local ordinance in 1999.
CELDF partners with Earth Law Center
Rights of Nature Workshop - Building a Movement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVLfZSVVRnI
https://communityrightslanecounty.org/readings
for community rights to become a reality, we must nullify and then overturn the legal doctrines which currently allow a relatively small number of people who control corporate decision making to override our communities. This will require millions of people and thousands of communities across this country to openly disobey those key legal doctrines – including corporate “rights” and state preemption – in the name of their constitutional right to local, community self- government. It will require communities – such as those in Texas and Pennsylvania and New York – to override the courts by joining together to change their state constitutions to recognize the authority of communities to write their own rules for energy corporations and others.
It’s something that close to two hundred communities in ten states have begun to do already – harnessing their municipal governments to adopt local laws that not only seek to stop fracking and other threats, but that repudiate state preemption and corporate “rights” within their own towns, villages, and cities.
POCLAD “collective” overview/links/intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POCLAD
The Program on Corporations, Law, and Democracy (POCLAD) is an activist collective of a dozen-or-so members, who research the history of corporations in the United States. They are some of the main circulators of the notion that corporate personhood—which gives corporations some of the same legal rights as real human beings—is at the center of the problems regarding corporations.
https://www.facebook.com/PocladProgramOnCorporationsLawAndDemocracy/
https://www.poclad.org/about.html
Copyright 2008
by or about POCLAD
By What Authority published every 4 months: https://www.poclad.org/BWA/
http://www.rachel.org/files/document/POCLAD_Model_Legal_Brief.htm
https://twitter.com/hashtag/poclad?lang=en
Rights of Nature
https://celdf.org/2016/03/rights-nature-faqs/
it means recognizing that ecosystems and natural communities are not merely property that can be owned. Rather, they are entities that have an independent and inalienable right to exist and flourish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumac_Kawsay#Text_of_the_Rights_of_Nature
https://www.pachamama.org/advocacy/rights-of-nature
Supporting the inclusion of Rights of Nature in the 2008 Ecuadorean Constitution, making Ecuador the first country in history to do so, and ensuring the enforcement at a local level […]
Supporting the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature in successfully forming the first Global Tribunal on the Rights of Nature in 2013
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_personhood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Law_Center
https://therightsofnature.org/
Community Rights Overview Talk| Sat 10/26 GMGP
Community Rights Movement wrapper
Jane Anne Morris (Madison WI, died 2019)
Paul Cienfuegos workshop spring 2019
Juliee de la terre
Julie emailed in this bio:
Juliee de la Terre holds an MS from the Gaylord Nelson Institute for environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin Madison. She lives on a small farm in southwest WI where she grows most of her food and teaches others the art of self-reliance. She is a member of Save Our Unique Lands, an NGO that opposes massive powerline expansion infrastructure and Deep Green Resistance. As an environmental consultant she is engaged in the food sovereignty movement and leads foraging walks in the Driftless. She has taught environmental science, conservation and sustainability to all grade levels including college. She has launched a multi-faceted deep green immersion project called “Singing Tree” on 106 certified organic acres in Vernon County, WI. Organic fields have been established and infrastructure is being created for an eventual learning project that will explore the natural world from earth to sky through various pedagogical methods.
She organized and facilitated a 33 day long, trans state walk in 2016 in Wisconsin, to unpack the dangers of the 4 pipe Enbridge pipeline corridor and oppose any expansion of same.
She is in partnership with Earth Law Center, to initiate the Great Lakes Rights of Nature Coalition working with concerned people all around the the Great Lakes ecosystem to enact legal structures that take rights away from corporations to destroy resources and acknowledge the rights of the Great Lakes watershed to exist, persist and flourish.
Recently she established People for Safe Sane Technology with others in her community to raise awarenss about electro-magnetic pollution and issues with the expansion of mega and small cellular transmission in the region. She is part of a class action lawsuit against a mega cell tower in hr back yard. Though many are focusing on the roll-out of 5G in needs to be acknowledged that we are already feeling the health and environmental affects of 3G and 4G.
She believes that transformation begins in hearts and minds and expands to all living systems and that we need to replace war mongering messaging, iconography, education etc. with the narrative that leads to acknowledging the intrinsic rights of all living systems. She maintains her bog called “Sacred Water Sacred Land” about the sacredness of all things.
google photo links are wide-open to public/unauthenticated
The main danger is accidental sharing – forwarding an email with the link for example.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20428266 ‘Google Photos is making photos semi-public | Hacker News’
https://www.alexkras.com/do-not-share-your-google-photos/
Turns out EVERY photo shared in Google Photos becomes Public by default. The only security measure is that the photo or album link is hard to guess. The long link acts as a password. Sharing Google Photo album, is like sharing a password with other users. It should only be done with content that you would not mind being accessible to the public.
https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/38xkwm/i_can_access_all_of_my_google_photos_without/ I can access all of my Google Photos without logging in
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/security/a16157/google-photos-public-url-security/
https://www.theverge.com/2015/6/23/8830977/google-photos-security-public-url-privacy-protected
Dr Judy Mikovits
https://bolenreport.com/dr-judy-mikovits-the-bravest-woman-in-science/
https://respectfulinsolence.com/2020/05/06/judy-mikovits-pandemic
http://stateofthenation.co/?p=12320 BILL GATES: A Menace to Society Who Must Be Arrested and Prosecuted for Crimes Against Humanity | SOTN: Alternative News, Analysis & Commentary http://stateofthenation.co/?p=11910 Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, MIT PhD Crushes Dr. Fauci, Exposes Birx, Clintons, Bill Gates & W.H.O. (Video) | SOTN: Alternative News, Analysis & Commentary
https://www.sott.net/article/434188-The-well-known-hazards-of-coronavirus-vaccines by Dr. Joseph Mercola
Kennedy wrote a brilliant foreword to Judy Mikovits’ book “Plague of Corruption,” in which he quotes his father saying, “Moral courage is the rarest species of bravery … rarer than the physical courage of soldiers in battle or great intelligence.”
This article is worth reading.
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/04/23/why-us-outsourced-bat-virus-research-wuhan/
NIH https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institutes_of_Health
WHO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization
http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2020/04/another-expert-challenges-assertions.html
Professor Stuart Newman, professor of cell biology and anatomy at New York Medical College
http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2020/04/theory-of-how-sars-coc-2-was-created-in.html
Prof Nikolai Petrovsky, of Flinders University, Australia
Viruses in prolonged culture will also develop other random mutations that do not affect its function. The result of these experiments is a virus that is highly virulent in humans but is sufficiently different that it no longer resembles the original bat virus. Because the mutations are acquired randomly by selection there is no signature of a human gene jockey, but this is clearly a virus still created by human intervention.
http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2020/04/theory-of-how-sars-coc-2-was-created-in.html
ACE2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiotensin-converting_enzyme_2
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Larry Romanoff
Not vetted! Has extreme counter legacy-media view, so please be careful!
He seems to be a “single source” for these view points; so be careful!
https://www.newcoldwar.org/chinese-researchers-conclude-covid-19-virus-originated-outside-china/
“Larry Romanoff is a retired management consultant and businessman. He has held senior executive positions in international consulting firms, and owned an international import-export business. He has been a visiting professor at Shanghai’s Fudan University, presenting case studies in international affairs to senior EMBA classes. Mr. Romanoff lives in Shanghai and is currently writing a series of ten books generally related to China and the West. He can be contacted at: 2186604556@qq.com. He is a frequent contributor to Global Research.”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/author/larry-romanoff
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Larry_Romanoff
https://criticalstudies.org/author/larry-romanoff/
“Larry Romanoff is a retired management consultant and businessman. He has held executive positions in international consulting firms, and owned an international import-export business. He lives in Shanghai and is currently writing a series of ten books generally related to China and the West. He can be contacted at: 2186604556@qq.com”
vetting TODO
List the assertions he states, and check them.
Anthrax False Flag Expert Barry Kissin: “Romanoff’s Version of COVID-19 Conspiracy Doesn’t Hold Up”
The virus strains are significantly different: China, Spain, Italy, Iran…
The Wuhan lab is not a bio weapons lab
enumerate the recent US bioweapons lab bio hazard leaks he lists and check them
Work by or about Larry Romanoff
This interview by Bonnie Faulkner introduced me: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/792399193-guns-and-butter-1-covid-usa-larry-romanoff-421.mp3.
https://www.newcoldwar.org/chinese-researchers-conclude-covid-19-virus-originated-outside-china/
https://muckrack.com/larry-romanoff/articles
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/54044.htm
http://www.defenddemocracy.press/covid-19-further-evidence-that-the-virus-originated-in-the-us/
familiarity: since Tue 07 Apr 2020
Fort Detrick
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Fort_Detrick
Bill Gates
https://www.globalresearch.ca/bill-gates-and-the-depopulation-agenda-robert-f-kennedy-junior-calls-for-an-investigation/5710021
https://jamesfetzer.org/2020/04/robert-f-kennedy-jr-exposes-bill-gates-vaccine-dictatorship-plan-cites-gates-twisted-messiah-complex/
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Serban V.C. Enache intro
http://serbanvcenache.blogspot.ro/
https://twitter.com/serbanenache?lang=en
Relatively young, not much available on him, keep an eye on him
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/SerbanVCEnache
Work by or about Serban V.C. Enache
familiarity: Nov 2020
Ann Garisson intro
https://twitter.com/AnnGarrison
https://www.facebook.com/annie.garrison
https://www.youtube.com/user/AnnieGetYourGang
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anngarrison/
Work by or about ann garisson
https://muckrack.com/ann-garisson
https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/Ann%20Garrison
https://www.globalresearch.ca/rwanda-genocide-honoring-the-dead-without-honoring-the-lies/18570
Steven R. Donziger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Donziger
https://www.donzigerdefense.com/
sign the petition: https://www.makechevroncleanup.com/support-steven-donziger
Work by or about Steven R. Donziger
https://theintercept.com/2020/01/29/chevron-ecuador-lawsuit-steven-donziger/
familiarity: since Tue 02 Jun 2020
Negar Mortazavi intro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negar_Mortazavi
https://twitter.com/NegarMortazavi
https://threadreaderapp.com/user/NegarMortazavi
https://www.facebook.com/negarmim
Work by or about Negar Mortazavi
https://foreignpolicy.com/author/negar-mortazavi/
https://www.independent.co.uk/author/negar-mortazavi
https://muckrack.com/negar-mortazavi
https://www.kcrw.com/people/negar-mortazavi
Negar Mortazavi discusses US-Iran tensions following downing of US drone
mailing list/discussion list – etiquette; guidelines; code of conduct
simple/good example: https://mail-list.com/mailing-list-guidelines/
technical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiquette_in_technology
The GNU Kind communication document has tips that may by relevant to our discussion mailing lists:
- Please do not take a harsh tone towards other participants, and especially don’t make personal attacks against them. Go out of your way to show that you are criticizing a statement, not a person.
- Please respond to what people actually said, not to exaggerations of their views. Your criticism will not be constructive if it is aimed at a target other than their real views.
- Rather than trying to have the last word, look for the times when there is no need to reply, perhaps because you already made the relevant point clear enough. If you know something about the game of Go, this analogy might clarify that: when the other player’s move is not strong enough to require a direct response, it is advantageous to give it none and instead move elsewhere.
- Please don’t argue unceasingly for your preferred course of action when a decision for some other course has already been made. That tends to block the activity’s progress.
- If others have irritated you, perhaps by disregarding these guidelines, please don’t excoriate them, and especially please don’t hold a grudge against them. The constructive approach is to encourage and help other people to do better. When they are trying to learn to do better, please give them plenty of chances.
- If other participants complain about the way you express your ideas, please make an effort to cater to them. You can find ways to express the same points while making others more comfortable. You are more likely to persuade others if you don’t arouse ire about secondary things.
- Honoring people’s preferences about gender identity includes not referring to them in ways that conflict with that identity. For instance, not to use pronouns for them that conflict with it. There are several ways to avoid that; one way is to use gender-neutral pronouns, since they don’t conflict with any possible gender identity. One choice is singular use of “they,” “them” and “their.” Another choice uses the gender-neutral singular pronouns, “person,” “per” and “pers,” […]
historical/mostly technical links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
Sometimes an indicator of deleted text is given, usually in the form of a square bracketed tag as: “[snipped],” “[trimmed],” or simply “[…]”.
A minority view – so you know these people exist: https://useplaintext.email/
netiquette | etiquette in technology | posting style | email etiquette
aaarg: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/107840/what-happened-to-quote-selected-text-in-gmail#107869
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiquette_in_technology
https://mail-list.com/mailing-list-guidelines/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style | quoting style | 1 space after last ‘>’
Nancy wrote:
> Peter wrote:
>> When will we have the performance figures?
> The tests will be completed next week.
Also done, possibly less though:
Nancy wrote:
>Peter wrote:
>>When will we have the performance figures?
>The tests will be completed next week.
Sometimes an indicator of deleted text is given, usually in the form of a square bracketed tag as: “[snipped],” “[trimmed],” or simply “[…]”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3676.txt
Flowed text with “long line paragraphs” vs “plain text” :flowed text definition
In body of final message
flowed line ends with
fixed line does not end with a
with 68-78col ‘’ terminated lines, and
empty line between paragraphs: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3676.txt
flowed text | related to ‘soft wrapped’ lines in vim
Flaw?: For GUI view, if interparagraph spacing is small, and final line in paragraph is long enough,
then paragraph boundary can be ambiguous. Another case: you have a series of short 1 line paragraphs.
https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/70n09a/soft_wrap_or_hard_wrap_lines_which_do_use_and_why/
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Move_through_wrapped_lines
quoting sender in reply, and 70 col lines:
http://www.redballoon.net/~snorwood/quote-rant.shtml
# see “good quoting practice”
https://man.sr.ht/lists.sr.ht/etiquette.md
https://useplaintext.email/
top posting popular: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5233428
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-the-masses-utilize-the-top-posting-style-in-email-replies?share=1
https://mailformat.dan.info/quoting/top-posting.html
1990s style article, but has some value (genera technical overview): https://mailformat.dan.info/
http://www.gweep.ca/~edmonds/usenet/ml-etiquette.html
# see “When replying, should I quote the previous message?”
# see “important formatting considerations”
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/pw/p_emailett.html#format # 404
http://admin.engr.wisc.edu/IT/netiq.cfm # 404
http://www.cc.utu.fi/english/email/general.html # 404
http://larve.net/people/hugo/2000/03/email
plain text
http://www.expita.com/nomime.html # 404
Old school, but valid: Do not top post in replies:top post:
http://www.html-faq.com/etiquette/?toppost
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html
USENET (what’s good for USENET is usually good for ordinary mail)
“If you change the topic of conversation in the
middle of a thread, change the subject header.”
http://people.netscape.com/sfraser/mtnw/docs/Usenet.html
http://www.gweep.ca/~edmonds/usenet/ml-etiquette.txt
good questions |asking for help
https://squigzy.pw/GettingHelpOnIRC
covid-19 tests
molecular test | PCR test
https://www.goodrx.com/blog/coronavirus-covid-19-testing-updates-methods-cost-availability/
reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction, or RT-PCR, where genetic material from a sample is copied and then compared to the genetic sequence of the virus you’re trying to detect.
This blog entry has a list of tests, and their turn around times.
ID NOW by Abbott is not recommended by TWIV.
antigen test | fast results, same sample methods
antigen test | serological tests
- Serological tests
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serology
https://www.goodrx.com/blog/coronavirus-covid-19-testing-updates-methods-cost-availability/
Unlike diagnostic tests, serological tests can identify people who were infected and have recovered.
how long do you transmit | how long to isolate
https://www.goodrx.com/blog/coronavirus-covid-19-testing-updates-methods-cost-availability/
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/disposition-in-home-patients.html
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/duration-isolation.html
Persons with more severe to critical illness or severe immunocompromise likely remain infectious no longer than 20 days after symptom onset. Recovered persons can continue to shed detectable SARS-CoV-2 RNA in upper respiratory specimens for up to 3 months after illness onset, albeit at concentrations considerably lower than during illness, in ranges where replication-competent virus has not been reliably recovered and infectiousness is unlikely.
In many cases, people may continue to test positive for SARS-CoV-2 long after their symptoms have resolved and they are no longer contagious, resulting in prolonged isolation that is unnecessary.
covid-19
washing vegetables … https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/04/08/coronavirus-food.aspx
Doctor at Queens Hospital in the UK advises on potential lifesaving corona virus breathing technique https://youtu.be/HwLzAdriec0
Dr David Price https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=14&v=98atnMKts-w&feature=emb_logo
Ed Heflin was a Green Party candidate for Connecticut Comptroller.
Heflin lost the general election on November 6, 2018. Heflin was an unsuccessful 2016 Green Party candidate for District 36 of the Connecticut State Senate.
https://ballotpedia.org/Ed_Heflin
Managing a google group email list
First go to:
( edit above URL so YOURGROUPNAME is replaced )
Here is a hint for the features I use the most:
All members
Direct add members
information> general information
group name
group posting email address
group description
settings
email options
subject prefix
footer
tags
enable tags
categories
enable categories
information> advanced
delete group
reset group
permissions
basic
group visibility
access
view members
view email addresses
I suggest you either “direct add” new members, or email them a warning that you will be adding them in a few days. I have had almost no luck inviting people – they apparently ignore the invitation.
IMP: When you enter a new email, pls use this format:
Notice the <> brackets surround the email. Then we can associate the real name/displayname “John Doe” with the johnd77@somedomain.org email address.
Michael Albert- Ontology and Basis/Framework of the next Radical Social Chg Movement
Where have I been? Michael Albert appears to be a key figure on the left, worth studying.
- Podcast albert_radical_theory part 1,
-
Quite a few related podcasts in their
- Z Mag Founder Michael Albert:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Albert
http://zcomm.org/author/malbert/
interview From SDS to Life After Capitalism: “Parecon” and a Model for a Participatory Society
Our purpose: basis/foundation of concepts for radical social change movement
tools
- concepts
- theories
- ontology/reality slicing
Existing alternate econ systems:
- market socialist / market coordinism: Yugoslovia
Existing movements: Markism, nationalism, anarchism, feminism
- problem: lack of overlap, each is incomplete model
foundational values in his model:
- equity
- solidarity
- participatory decesion making
- diversity
spheres, basis of concepts/foci
- people
- institutions
- cultural
- economic
- political
- kinship
- TBD…
social institutions:
attributes/definition: They have slots/roles that people land in.
kinship
- attributes: socialization, nurturance, next generation
- examples: schools, marriage, family
community
- examples: jim crow, slavery
polity
- attributes: adjudication
- examples: oligarchy, monarchy, democracy, theocracy
economy
- attributes: production, consumption, allocation
- examples: feudal, capitalist, socialist
relationships between institutions
- accommodation: one reacts to another
- co-reproduction: one, by it’s own nature reinforces certain behaviors in the other
Steven Sahiounie intro
https://twitter.com/STEVENSAHIOUNI1
https://m.facebook.com/Steven.Nezar.Sahiounie/
Work by or about Steven Sahiounie
https://www.mintpressnews.com/author/steven-sahiounie/
Steven Sahouni is an independent Syrian political analyst and writer based in Lebanon; he has been covering the Syrian crisis since it’s onset in 2011 and has published several articles in numerous media outlets - He is regularly interviewed by US, Canadian and German media.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/author/steven-sahiounie
https://ahtribune.com/author.html?id=929
https://muckrack.com/steven-sahiounie
familiarity: since Sun 15 Dec 2019
Bellingcat
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Bellingcat
by or about Bellingcat
The art of doublespeak: Bellingcat and mind control | Intrepid Report
[…] this segment of the population that considers itself “informed,” but the information they imbibe is often sprinkled with bits of misdirection, both intentional and not, that beclouds their understanding of important public matters but leaves them with the false impression that they are in the know.
War Propaganda Firm Bellingcat Continues Lying About Syria| Caitlin Johnstone
Bellingcat regularly works with … OCCRP … – according to the late journalist Robert Parry – “engages in ‘investigative journalism’ that usually goes after governments that have fallen into disfavor with the United States and then are singled out for accusations of corruption.” OCCRP is notably funded by USAID and the controversial George Soros-funded Open Society Foundations.
The Intercept has repeatedly promoted Bellingcat in its articles, having called the Atlantic Council-connected, Google-funded group “a reputable U.K.-based organization devoted to analyzing images coming out of conflict zones.” Furthermore, prior to the recent workshop in late September between The Intercept and Bellingcat, both jointly participated in another workshop hosted in London earlier this year in April.
Bellingcat’s founder Eliot Higgins also has made journalistic errors that would have ended the careers of many true professionals, yet he continues to be cited and hailed by the likes of The New York Times and The Washington Post, which have historically turned up their noses about Internet-based journalism.
See my notes: Pierre Omidyar intro.
It wasn’t the “experts” like Bellingcat who unmasked ShamiWitness — quite the opposite, Bellingcat’s team played a major role in building him up as a credible expert.
http://www.whathappenedtoflightmh17.com/so-how-is-bellingcat-funded/
‘The Intercept’
- Glen Greewald resigns from “The Intercept”: https://youtu.be/l8pkCZBjgrk | Oct 30 2020
- https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-intercept
John K on “The Intercept”, skip in 37:50 https://dissentradio.com/radio/19_12_13_kiriakou.mp3
Prof Edward Curtin on “The Intercept” and Bellingcat
Deep Green Resistance
https://deepgreenresistance.org/en/
https://www.facebook.com/deepgreenresistance
https://twitter.com/deepgreenresist
https://www.youtube.com/user/DeepGreenResistance/
https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Green-Resistance-Strategy-Planet/dp/1583229299
http://www.derrickjensen.org/deep-green-resistance/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance
Andre Vltchek intro
https://www.facebook.com/andre.vltchek/
https://andrevltchek.weebly.com/
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Andre_Vltchek
Work by or about Andre Vltchek
https://muckrack.com/andre-vltchek/articles
https://www.21cir.com/specialists/andre-vltchek/
https://www.globalresearch.ca/author/andre-vltchek
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/13/i-am-a-communist/
To me personally, a true Communist is a fighter against imperialism, racism, ‘Western exceptionism’, colonialism and neo-colonialism. He or she is a determined Internationalist, a person who believes in equality and social justice for all people on this Earth.
familiarity: since Wed 25 Dec 2019
Patrick Lawrence intro (journalist)
https://twitter.com/thefloutist?lang=en
https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Author/Patrick-Lawrence-1708331152616491/
Work by or about Patrick Lawrence
https://consortiumnews.com/tag/patrick-lawrence/
https://www.thenation.com/authors/patrick-lawrence/
https://www.salon.com/writer/patrick_lawrence
https://www.mintpressnews.com/author/patrick-lawrence/
https://muckrack.com/thefloutist/articles
familiarity: since Sat 28 Dec 2019
J. Michael Springmann
Guns and Butter Interview 9/9/15
Unwelcome Guests. skip in 467 sec.
cheryl@ct911truth.org SPRINGMAN_PART_1
cheryl@ct911truth.org SPRINGMAN_PART_2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Springmann
http://911review.org/Sept11Wiki/Springman,JMichael.shtml
9/11 Citizens’ Commission - 10. Michael Springman VISAs for Terrorists
his book:
google annoyances
Google’s wonderful, but also frustrating – they seem to hide important info from advanced (non developer) users.
- How do you cut and paste formated text (like bullet lists) in google docs.
I’ve asked 5 people / no joy.
- Google Help Forums are not as good as the old Usenet.
Out of perhaps 4 attempts at getting help, I think none bore fruit. My questions are usually not so basic, and so they are ignored. I simply have given up asking. Old style mailing lists and Usenet was much better.
- How might I get a list of all the public ‘google groups’!
Pretty simple request, right, but just try.
Karen Kwiatkowski
She is a libertarian, but appears to have integrity, based on my limited exposure to her. Not a hugh web foot print, so not easy to “vet”. Her wikipedia pages has quite a few links going back ~20 years.
https://twitter.com/karen4the6th?lang=en
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Karen_Kwiatkowski
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Kwiatkowski
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Writer-Bio-Page.htm?EditNo=409&EdNo=222
Work by or about Karen Kwiatkowski
familiarity: since Wed 26 Feb 2020
american system | Promoted by: Ellen Brown; Laroche people; Webstery Tarpley | some call it dirgism | Charles de Gaulle may have been a dirgist
< https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_System_(economic_plan) >
collection of articles and podcasts on american system
< https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/5bjcy8/ITsOurMoney_020321.mp3 >
FreeConferenceCall admits they’re overloaded due to covid19 | Mar 19 2020
Subject: FCC/FreeConferenceCall admits they're overloaded due to covid19
I scrubbed this email to obfuscate identities and domains. FCC is overloaded.
The showstopper is garbled sound -- to the point that we've abandoned the FCC meetings
for say google hangouts instead. 'jitsi' in one case this week did not work any better.
Preliminary tests by several of us suggest that google hangouts video calls,
and possibly zoom video meetings are handling the load better. Time will tell.
On Thu 3/19/20 3:07 -0000 a Byrd Titus wrote:
> Yes, it happened to a moba game I play as well. There is probably some
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> Seems like FCC is having bandwidth problems; they say everyone is.
> There was also a note from Discord asking us to report access issues.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Zoom/
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362003-Zoom-Video-Communications-Technical-Support
concepts / defs
- Host and Co-Host Controls in a Meeting
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362603-Host-and-Co-Host-Controls-in-a-Meeting
Host can assign as many co-hosts as needed. They appear to have all or almost all host rights. Our tests hint that a co-host can not create a poll, nor mute-all and “don’t allow all to unmute”.
Corner case: (2nd instance of ‘owner’ acct becomes “co-host”): If the zoom ‘owner’ acct is in the meeting, and subsequently the ‘owner’ joins the meeting again (perhaps a different human); then this 2nd instance becomes a ‘co-host’. Based on testing in June 2020.
- co-host
- https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/206330935-Enabling-and-Adding-a-Co-Host
zoom suggested settings
zoom meeting id overview
unique/random meeting id (11 digits) | regular meeting id vs PMI
A zoom-generated random number meeting id.
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362373-What-is-a-Meeting-ID-
The 11-digit number is used for instant, scheduled or recurring meetings. The 10-digit number is used for Personal Meeting IDs. Meetings scheduled prior to April 12, 2020 may be 9-digits long.
- “regular meeting id” types; 4 types | non PMI
These have random numeric IDs.
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362413-How-Do-I-Schedule-Meetings-
A non-recurring meeting ID will expire 30 days after the meeting is scheduled for. You can restart the same meeting ID as many times as you would like, within the 30-day period.
Scheduled meetings can be started at any time before the scheduled time. The links will not expire or become invalid unless it is past the 30 day period for a non-recurring meeting, has not been used for over 365 days for a recurring meeting, or has been deleted from your Zoom account. An instant meeting link will expire as soon as the meeting is over.
A recurring meeting ID will expire 365 days after the meeting is started on the last occurrence. You can re-use the meeting ID for future occurrences.
‘Instant meetings’ | ‘Meet Now’ | one shot only
These are created by the zoom ‘owner’ account in the zoom client, by clicking on the orange New Meeting button. First, though you must deselect the PMI option in the New Meeting button drop down.
I’ve tried, these meetings can not be restarted – you get an error saying :
This meeting ID is invalid.
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362533
An instant meeting ID started from Zoom desktop client, Zoom mobile app, or the Zoom website will expire as soon as the meeting has ended.
Recurring Meetings | Recurring Meeting id
zoom-scheduled recurring meetings use a random id.
The scheduling GUI forces scheduled recurring meetings to be random meeting IDs, the PMI option is not available. These recurring meeting ids can be used anytime – they do expire well after the recurring meeting sequence has ended.
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/214973206
Zoom allows you to schedule meetings with multiple occurrences, so that each occurrence uses the same meeting ID and settings. You can schedule these meetings in daily, weekly, and monthly increments. You can also set a recurring meeting to be used at any time. Meeting IDs for recurring meetings expire 365 days after the meeting was last started.
PMI personal meeting id is static | a convenience id
Using only a PMI id is what zoom novices might do for all meetings. It’s simple: you have one unchanging meeting ID number and one unchanging password. The PMI number and the password are fixed (unless you make an effort to change them), and it will never expire. PMI meetings can be started or restarted anytime. PMI meetings can be zoom-scheduled in the future.
It’s not a best practice to use a PMI id for a large event. If you do you should change the PMI password after the event.
For a big event I suggest a regular ID, which you can create in advance of the event by zoom-scheduling it.
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362533
You can use your Personal Meeting ID for Instant Meetings.
https://zoomappdownload.com/zoom-personal-meeting-id/
since your Zoom Personal Meeting ID is permanent, you should only use it for meetings with people you meet regularly. Once someone has your Personal Meeting ID, they will be able to join an ongoing meeting whether you want it or not, unless you lock your meeting or use the Waiting Room feature which is available starting from the Pro plan. […]
This ID can be started and scheduled at any time, and it does not expire. It’s also assigned to you automatically once you sign up with Zoom.
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362843-Personal-meeting-ID-PMI-and-personal-link
Your personal meeting room is a virtual room that is permanently reserved for you. You can start it at any time or schedule it for future use. You can also schedule or start an instant meeting with your PMI. […] If you are on a paid plan and have a Pro license, you can customize the 10-digit PMI.
For small repeating mtgs I suggest using a PMI ( personal meeting id) and static all numeric password joining the zoom meeting is easier. An all numbers password means phone plain old phone password matches the web password.
https://www.theandroidsoul.com/zoom-meeting-vs-zoom-personal-meeting/
The static feature of a Personal Meeting ID is better suited for recurring meetings.
corner case end user may be able to join a regular/random-id mtg using PMI creds???
https://www.theandroidsoul.com/zoom-meeting-vs-zoom-personal-meeting/
Another use for PMI is if you would like to open up all your meetings to allow users with your PMI to join in anytime they would like. […]
Additionally, if you have back to back meetings, it is highly recommended to use a randomly generated Meeting ID since you will have to kick everyone off the meeting each time you want to start the next. And even then, any user with your Personal Meeting Link can join the meeting, whether they were invited or not.
tips for big-event meetings & security
I think “share screen” settings at the base/pre-meeting config level should be liberal, i.e. allow screen sharing. Still the host can and may want to manually disable screen sharing during a large meeting, and re-enable only when needed.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/17/21196104/how-to-keep-your-zoom-meetings-safe-security-privacy
If a participant does start to misbehave but you don’t necessarily want to kick them out (or you want to discuss what you’re going to get them for their birthday), you can put them back in the waiting room. Click on the “Manage Participants” icon at the bottom of your screen, find the name of the participant on the resulting side panel, and then click on “More” > “Put in waiting room.”
https://harvard.service-now.com/ithelp?id=kb_article&sys_id=c1735972dbd7885430ed1dca48961975
zoom settings - detailed check box by check box
Settings> Meeting
[x] Allow participants to join the meeting before the host arrives
[x] Enable Personal Meeting ID
[x] Use Personal Meeting ID (PMI) when scheduling a meeting
[x] auto save chats
[disable] Sound notification when someone joins or leaves
[disable] Feedback to Zoom
[x] Allow the host to add co-hosts. Co-hosts have the same in-meeting controls as the host. 
[x] Add ‘Polls’ to the meeting controls. This allows the host to survey the attendees
screen sharing
[all particpants] Who can share?
[all] Who can start sharing when someone else is sharing?
[disabled] Remote control
[x] Nonverbal feedback
[x] Breakout room
[disabled] Waiting room | per-meeting
[x] Allow live streaming meetings
[x] When the cloud recording is going to be permanently deleted from trash
[x] Allow sharing whiteboard during a meeting
[x] Allow saving of whiteboard content
[x] Auto save whiteboard content when sharing is stopped
Settings>Recording
local
Allow hosts and participants to record the meeting to a local file [x]
cloud
[x] Record active speaker with shared screen
[x] Record an audio only file
[x] Save chat messages from the meeting / webinar
Automatic recording
Only about 1GB of space provided in cloud for basic plan. They apparently allow >1GB though if the threshold is crossed in a given meeting.
The convenience of a central storage spot that several of us can access independently is a big advantage of the cloud recording option. We just need to keep downloading and pruning.
[x] record in the cloud
[x] auto delete after 120 days
Personal link / Personal URL ( no longer supported?? June 2020 )
For licensed accounts.
Profile > Customize
zoom help/ appendix
more definitions
- alternate host
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/208220166-Alternative-Host
Above shows steps for “Designating an alternative host” in advance of a scheduled meeting (I assume?).
- host key
- https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/205172555-Using-your-host-key
streaming
https://www.reddit.com/r/Zoom/comments/fpe208/obs_virtual_cam_to_zoom/
extra cost features
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115005474943-Meeting-and-Webinar-Comparison
advanced
https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/2872010?hl=en
security
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/what-you-should-know-about-online-tools-during-covid-19-crisis
2016 WI recount notes | raw plain text
Now in April 2020 I have dusted off my notes on my review of a couple of counties board of canvass reports – part of my involvement in the 2016 presidential election recount. These raw notes appear below. Pls plow through or ignore what may appear to be ugly raw plain text with some “coding noise”, and look at some of the content.
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url used:
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Source for this doc: http://elections.wi.gov/sites/default/files/recount_2016/green_county_unapproved_recount_minutes_12_2016_pd_56654.pdf
refering parent link: http://elections.wi.gov/elections-voting/recount/2016-presidential/county-by-county/green/
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Type of machines:
Optical/Digital Scan Tabulator (Vendor/Dealer-Model):[Dominion ImageCast Evolution]
Accessible Voting Equipment Vendor/Dealer-Model:[Dominion ImageCast Evolution]
> Green County Recount Minutes
>
> Dates of Recount: Thursday, December 1, 2016
> Called to order at 9:00 am
> Recessed for lunch from 11:30 am to 12:00 pm
> Recessed for the day at 4:00 pm
> Friday, December 2, 2016
> Reconvened at 8:00 am
> Recessed for lunch from 12:00 pm to 12:45 pm
> Recessed for the day at 2:00 pm
> Monday, December 5, 2016
> Reconvened at 8:00 am
> Adjourned at 11:30 am
>
> County: Green
>
> Office to be Recounted: President of the United States,
> November 8, 2016 election results
>
> Location of Recount: County Board Room, Green County Courthouse
> 1016 16th Ave, Monroe, WI
>
> Original Results: Trump/Pence received 8,693 votes
> Clinton/Kaine received 9,122 votes
> Castle/Bradley received 79 votes
> Johnson/Weld received 687 votes
> Stein/Baraka received 196 votes
> Moorehead/Lilly received 11 votes
> De La Fuente/Steinburg received 4 votes
> Fox/Kushner received 0 votes
> McMullin/Johnson received 36 votes
> Maturen/Munoz received 0 votes
> Schoenke/Mitchell received 0 votes
> Keniston/Taylor received 0 votes
> Kotlikoff/Leamer received 0 votes
> Hoefling/Schulin received 0 votes
> Maldonado received 1 vote
> Soltysik/Walker received 0 votes
> Scattering received 156 votes
Nice that they show all presidential candidates.
>
> Canvass Board Members: Michael J. Doyle, Green County Clerk
> John Waelti, Democratic Board Member
> Rolland Karlen, Republican Board Member
>
> Other Personnel: Wendy Tschudy, Deputy County Clerk
> Tabulators:
> Ann Schwartz
> Dennis Schwartz
> Diane Morrissey
> Amy McCullough
>
> Others Present: See attached sign-in sheets for observers:
> Attachment B1: Green County Recount Observers Log dated
> December 1, 2016
> Attachment B2: Green County Recount Observers Log dated
> December 2, 2016
> Attachment B3: Green County Recount Observers Log dated
> December 5, 2016
Could not find above attachments.
> Notification: Agenda/notice posted on county website on November 29 at 4:10 pm
> Agenda/notice posted on county's bulletin board on November 29 at
> 4:10 pm
> Agenda/notice emailed to county's official newspaper on November 29
> at 4:10 pm
> Agenda/notice emailed to WEC on November 30 at 8:36 am
>
> Hand Counted Ballot Results:
> See Attachment A: Hand Counted Ballot Results
>
> Recount Results: Trump/Pence received 8,693 votes
> Clinton/Kaine received 9,122 votes
> Castle/Bradley received 79 votes
> Johnson/Weld received 687 votes
> Stein/Baraka received 196 votes
> Moorehead/Lilly received 11 votes
> De La Fuente/Steinburg received 4 votes
> Fox/Kushner received 0 votes
> McMullin/Johnson received 48 votes
> Maturen/Munoz received 0 votes
> Schoenke/Mitchell received 0 votes
> Keniston/Taylor received 0 votes
> Kotlikoff/Leamer received 0 votes
> Hoefling/Schulin received 0 votes
> Maldonado received 1 vote
> Soltysik/Walker received 0 votes
> Scattering received 144 votes
> Original Results: Trump/Pence received 8,693 votes |> Recount Results: Trump/Pence received 8,693 votes
> Clinton/Kaine received 9,122 votes |> Clinton/Kaine received 9,122 votes
> Castle/Bradley received 79 votes |> Castle/Bradley received 79 votes
> Johnson/Weld received 687 votes |> Johnson/Weld received 687 votes
> Stein/Baraka received 196 votes |> Stein/Baraka received 196 votes
> Moorehead/Lilly received 11 votes |> Moorehead/Lilly received 11 votes
> De La Fuente/Steinburg received 4 votes |> De La Fuente/Steinburg received 4 votes
> Fox/Kushner received 0 votes |> Fox/Kushner received 0 votes
> McMullin/Johnson received 36 votes |> McMullin/Johnson received 48 votes
McMullin/Johnson undercounted in election by 12 votes.
> Maturen/Munoz received 0 votes |> Maturen/Munoz received 0 votes
> Schoenke/Mitchell received 0 votes |> Schoenke/Mitchell received 0 votes
> Keniston/Taylor received 0 votes |> Keniston/Taylor received 0 votes
> Kotlikoff/Leamer received 0 votes |> Kotlikoff/Leamer received 0 votes
> Hoefling/Schulin received 0 votes |> Hoefling/Schulin received 0 votes
> Maldonado received 1 vote |> Maldonado received 1 vote
> Soltysik/Walker received 0 votes |> Soltysik/Walker received 0 votes
> Scattering received 156 votes |> Scattering received 144 votes
SCATTERING/write-ins overcounted in election by 12 votes.
> Additional Attachment to the Minutes:
> Attachment C: Copy of Amended Canvass Certification
I checked above, ie http://elections.wi.gov/sites/default/files/recount_2016/green_county_original_certified_canvass_results_pd_18811.pdf
and it agrees with 'Recount Results' in this doc.
> Additional Notes:
> ? Ballots are being hand counted for the recount, after electronic tabulation on election
> day.
> ? All personnel assisting with the recount currently hold an appointed or elected office,
> and because of their position, they are currently under an Oath of Office. All
> tabulators have been administered an Oath of Office.
Notable/good.
> ? Sealed ballot bags and all materials from the election were stored in the conference
> room located directly off the board room where the recount was conducted. The
> remaining recount supplies were located in the board room itself. The conference
> room was locked and secured during at all times that the board was recessed,
> including lunch periods. The board room was guarded during lunch recesses, and
> was emptied of all materials overnight, since the room is unable to be locked.
Notable/good.
> ? There were NO provisional ballots in any municipality.
> ? Poll book review and reconciliation was done by spot checking.
> ? Absentee ballot review was accelerated when the number of envelopes matched.
What is meant by above?
What was count of Absentee ballots?
>
>
> Michael J. Doyle, Green County Clerk
>
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> Thank you for volunteering to help read the minutes – the official
> record – of the statewide Wisconsin Presidential election recount. We’re
> compiling evidence to build a convincing case for the public that
> Wisconsin law has no safeguards to confirm the accuracy of the results
> of any election. The information could be used to contest the recount,
> to further ongoing investigations into the integrity of the 2016
> election, and to shape and promote reform efforts.
>
> Instructions for Volunteers
>
> Getting Started:
>
> 1. Download the recount manual from the State website at
> http://elections.wi.gov/manuals/recount#attachments and read pages
> 6-13
> so you’ll understand the activities the minutes are intended
> to document.
> 2. Create a folder on your computer for the materials you’ll use for
> this project.
> 3. Open the spreadsheet at http://bit.ly/wiminutesnewchart .
> You have
> two options for working on this spreadsheet: a) You can make a co py
> of it and work on it in Google Docs, or b) you can download it to
> your computer and work on it in Excel.
>
> To use option a): Select “M ake a copy” from the File menu and rename
> the file, substituting your name for the capitalized text.
>
> (Example:” 2016RecountMinutesFindings_JaneDoe ”)
> To use option b): Select “Download as” and then “Microsoft Excel” from
> the File menu. Save it to the new folder you created, renaming the file,
> substituting your name for the capitalized text.
> (Example:”2016RecountMinutesFindings_JaneDoe”)
>
> Important: Do not add, subtract, or rearrange the columns on your
> spreadsheet. We will be combining spreadsheets for 72 counties, and the
> columns need to match for that to be done easily and accurately. The
> column lab els are explained in a little note for each column, which you
> can view if you hover your pointer over the little triangle in the top
> right corner of the cell that contains the column label.
>
> 4. Go to this link:
> http://elections.wi.gov/elections-voting/recount/2016-presidential
> Scroll through the alphabetical list to find the name of the county
> whose minutes you’ll be reading. Click on the county name to open
> its page. Download the Recount Minutes document or documents
> (file names may vary) to the new folder on your computer . If
> there are both “approved” and “unapproved” versions, download both.
> Do not change the document names. Open both documents and choose the
> longer one for this project.
> 5. Complete one copy of the cover sheet for each county. The file name
> should be RecountMinutesReviewCoverSheet_COUNTYNAME.
> The cover sheet
> asks what voting equipment was used. If you’re not sure, you can
> look up that information at
> http://elections.wi.gov/elections-voting/voting-equipment/voting-equipment-use
> 6. As you read the minutes, you’ll be entering irregularities you find
> into the spreadsheet, one incident per line. Please fill in as much
> of the requested information as you can. You may be able to copy and
> paste some of the information directly from the minutes. Not all
> information will be available in every case. Do the best you can.
> 7. Email your completed spreadsheet, your cover sheet for each county
> you did, and copies of all minutes you downloaded to
> jennifer.miller218@gmail.com .
> If you finish your assignment and
> can do another, or if you have questions, contact Jen at
> 503-332-4877 ).
> 8. Download your completed spreadsheet. Attach the spreadsheet and all
> files you downloaded from the WEC website to an email to us. Use
> the subject line: Recount Minutes Project -- [name of county].
> 9. The deadline for sending in your spreadsheets is Weds (December 14)
> . Again, you’ll receive information well before then about where to
> send them.
>
> What to look for as you read
>
> We’re looking for a few categories of information :
>
> 1. Any change in vote totals for any candidate.
> 2. Any indication that the materials used in the recount may not have
> been a complete and accurate record of the election, including but
> not limited to:
>
> - Ballot bags that were presented for recounting with rips or in an
> unsealed condition.
> - Seal numbers on bags missing or changed.
> - Disturbed seals on ballot bags.
> - Bags of ballots that don’t appear on inspector’s report.
> - Missing bags of ballots. (For example, one bag marked “bag 2 of 2,”
> but no bag 1 found.)
> - Unsigned inspector’s reports
> - Wrong election date on poll tapes
> - “Draw downs” of ballots
>
> 3. More ballots than voters or more voters than ballots.
> 4. Evidence that indicates a crime may have been committed. (Not simply
> opportunity for crime, of which there were plenty.)
> 5. Important stories about the recount that need to be told.
> 6. Differences of opinion about whether or a specific vote should be
> counted (disagreement between election worker and observer, or
> original count and recount). Examples:
>
> - Absentee ballots counted despite lack of signature
> - Ballots for which objections were raised by campaign observers
>
> To a great extent, you’ll have to use your own judgment about what to
> include in your spreadsheet. When in doubt, include the incident .
>
> Logging the information:
>
> - When you start on a new municipality, county, etc., make sure to
> fill in the column with its name.
> - When you read about an irregularity that affected which votes were
> counted, try to determine the number of votes affected. It’s
> important to log every number of votes changed, even if it’s only 1
> or 2.
>
> Again, thank you very much for your help with this crucial project. We
> look forward to seeing your findings.
>
> Glossary of Terms (will be added to as needed)
>
> Board of Canvassers: body that certifies the results of election and
> make official determination of election winners
>
> Canvass total versus recount or new totals: Canvass totals are the vote
> counts from election night. The vote totals from the recount are
> sometimes referred to as “recount totals” and sometimes as “new totals.”
>
> Draw-downs: When there are more ballots than there should be in a batch,
> the procedure counties have been instructed to follow is to randomly
> select the number of ballots that are ‘extra.’ This is known as a
> “draw-down.” These randomly selected ballots are not counted. Please
> note any draw-downs on your spreadsheet.
>
> DREs: Direct Record Electronic voting machines. These are also known as
> “touch-screen machines.” They produce a “paper tape” (like a roll of
> toilet paper) that supposedly shows the voter how her/his votes are
> being recorded. In some WI counties, the paper tapes were cut apart so
> each voter’s votes were separate, and the votes on them counted by hand.
> It’s important to know that DREs can be programmed to show the voter
> their correct vote on both the touchscreen and the paper tape, but count
> the vote incorrectly.
>
> Inspectors: Polling place workers in charge of carrying out and
> documenting election procedures according to law and policy.
>
> Machine calibration: Adjustment of electronic voting machines that can
> affect, for example, how precisely correct the marking of a ballot must
> be in order to be counted accurately. Intentional miscalibration is one
> available method of election rigging.
>
> Op-scan: Short for optical scan, this term refers to the electronic
> vote-counting machines that tabulate paper ballots. These machines can
> be hacked or rigged.
>
> Overvotes: More candidates chosen on a voter’s ballot than they are
> permitted to select for a given office. For example, if a voter who
> marks TWO presidential candidates on their ballot, that ballot would be
> considered an overvote for president and should not be counted.
>
> Paper Tape: See DREs, above.
>
> Poll books: The list of eligible voters used at each polling place to
> track who has voted.
>
> Seals (AKA Tags): Numbered seals are used as a security measure to deter
> unauthorized access to sensitive election materials such as ballots and
> voting machines. Seal numbers are written in a log and must be checked
> against that log before being broken. If the numbered seal on a
> container of ballots does not match the number in the log, the chain of
> custody has been broken. This is a serious problem.
>
> Tabulators: This word is used in WI elections to mean two totally
> different things! Humans who are tabulators assist in the recount
> procedures. Optical scan voting machines are also referred to as
> tabulators.
>
> Tags: See “Seals,” above.
>
> Undervotes: A ballot on which no vote is recorded for the office in
> question is said to have an “undervote” for that office. Optical scan
> machines fail to register some votes even when the human eye could
> determine the voter’s intent. When a race that was originally tabulated
> by optical scanners is recounted by hand, the number of undervotes will
> often decrease.
>
> Voter intent: How the voter meant to vote. Even when an optical scanner
> fails to register a voter’s vote, inspection by human beings can often
> reveal the voter intent, resulting in a previously uncounted vote being
> counted.
>
> Prepared by Emily Levy , RecountNow.org 12/10/16.
>
> Last updated 12/10/16, 11:45pm
> --snip
> > Date: local : Sat, 10 Dec 2016 23:51:18 -0600
> > To: Emily Levy <juiceforjustice@gmail.com>
> > From: Emily Levy <juiceforjustice@gmail.com>
> > Subject: [READ and SAVE] Recount Minutes Project -- cover sheet, glossary, links
> >
> > *Cover Sheet:*
> > The promised cover sheet is now ready for you. Please download this sheet
> > each time you start a new county. Save it with the subject line,
> > "RecountMinutesReviewCoverSheet_COUNTYNAME" (replacing "COUNTYNAME" with
> > the name of the county you've reviewed). The link to the cover sheet is:
> > http://bit.ly/wiminutescover
> >
> > *Links:*
> > Here are the links to the documents and other resources you need for this
> > project. I thought it would be useful for you to have them all in one place.
> > Spreadsheet template: http://bit.ly/wiminutesnewchart
> > Instructions for project: http://bit.ly/wiminutesintro
> > Cover sheet, as noted above: http://bit.ly/wiminutescover
> > Wisconsin recount manual:
> > http://elections.wi.gov/manuals/recount#attachments
> > Download the minutes for your assigned county here:
> > http://elections.wi.gov/elections-voting/recount/2016-presidential
> > Find out what kind of voting machines your assigned county used here:
> > http://elections.wi.gov/elections-voting/voting-equipment/voting-equipment-use
> >
> > *Glossary of Terms*
> > By request, I've added a brief glossary of terms to the bottom of the
> > instructions sheet. Again, the link to that is http://bit.ly/wiminutesintro.
> > This may be added to as needed, so if a term you need isn't defined, let
> > Jen or me know, and we'll try to add it.
> >
> > We need to get your work back from you by this Wednesday. Please only take
> > on as much as you're sure you'll be able to do by then.
> >
> > Thanks for all you're doing! We know this is a really challenging project!
> >
> > Emily
> >
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> Recount Minutes
> Shawano County
> Presidential Office
>
> The meeting of the Board of Canvass was called to order at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, December 1,
> 2016 in the lower level of the Shawano County Courthouse.
>
> Office to be recounted: President of the United States
> Canvass Board Members: Betty Lohrengel, Republican; Lorraine Zehren, Democrat; Leanne
> Watry, Deputy County Clerk
> Others present: County Clerk Pamela Schmidt and Rosemary Rueckert, recording secretary
> Tabulators: Judy Gaza, Trisha Hoffman, Debra Hull, Kate Jeffries-Felts, Nancy Folkman, Carol
> Kleist, Marvin Klosterman, Sandy Laehn, slim Luebke, Jim Mitchell, Maureen Oleson, Gwen
> Olsen, Jackie Radloff, Patsy Robertson, Tanya Sherman, Rick Stadelman, Susan Stadelman,
> Phyllis Uelman,
>
>
> Pamela Schmidt, County Clerk requested all tabulators to take an Oath of Office. She then
> performed the oath. All tabulators signed their oath of office and the forms are on file in the
> County Clerk's office.
Good.
> County Clerk Schmidt stated that a smaller municipality would be chosen to demonstrate to the
> tabulators the process of the recount. They would then be assigned various duties.
>
>
> LeAnn Watry, Deputy County Clerk, announced that all presidential candidates were notified of
> the recount. The notification was completed by the Wisconsin Election Commission. The open
> meeting of the Board of Canvass to recount ballots for President of the United States was
> properly posted by the County Clerk. All members of the Board of Canvass were also notified.
>
>
> A motion was made by Lohrengel, seconded by Zehren, to count ballots three different ways.
> Some ballots will be hand counted,
> some ballots will be counted by the Eagle tabulator
> and some ballots will be hand counted from the Edge tapes or spools.
> Motion carried.
> (This method was later modified and all municipalities' ballots were counted by hand)
IMP: all municipalities' ballots were counted by hand
> The results of the recount for each municipality are as follows:
>
>
> Town of Almon
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1-2
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 194, Clinton 81, Castle 0, Johnson 7, Stein 1,
> Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 1, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Kenistoni 0,
> Kotlifoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysiki 0
> Number of Voters from Registration List: 286
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 18
> Number of Absentee ballots: 18
nice
> Notes: Ballots hand counted.
> Recount totals: Trump 194, Clinton 81, Castle 0, Johnson 7, Stein 1, Moorehead 0, De La
> Fuente 1, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Kenistoni 0,
> Kotlifoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysiki 0
> Recount Vote Totals Results: No change to any original totals
No mention of write ins / scattering.
orig pres. vote count: 284
Number of Voters from Registration List: 286
recount pres. votes: 284
> Town of Angelica
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1-3
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 683, Clinton 221, Castle.6, Johnson 27, Stein 4,
> Moorehead 1, De La Fuente 2, Fox 0, McMullin 5, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Kenistoni 0,
> Kotlifoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysiki 0
> Number of Voters from Registration List: 965
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 107
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 105
> Notes: Ballots were counted by tabulator, but numbers were off slightly.
Interesting above/see below also.
> All ballots were then
> counted by hand. Three ballots were not read by the machine due to vote's intent not
> detected. Voter marked very short lines but did not connect arrow or underlined candidate.
> Ballots were hand counted due to the discrepancy.
So did the recount voting machine behave differently than the election day machine - not clear to me.
Seems election day machine, and recount day machine may have both detected "undervotes", ie
missing votes for president, perhaps they differed though in that count of "undervotes"?
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 686, Clinton 221, Castle.6, Johnson 27,
> Stein 4, Moorehead 1, De La Fuente 2, Fox 0, McMullin 5, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Kenistoni 0,
> Kotlifoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysiki 0
> Recount Results: Change in Trump increased by 3 votes. No other changes.
3 vote increase for Trump.
orig pres. vote count: 943
Number of Voters from Registration List: 965
recount pres. votes: 946
> Town of Aniwa
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 170, Clinton 74, Castle 0, Johnson 9, Stein 2,
> Moorehead 1, De La Fuente 2, Fox 0, McMullin 1, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Kenistoni 0,
> Kotlifoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysiki 0
> Number of Voters from Registration List: 257
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 19
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 19
> Notes: Ballots hand counted.
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 170, Clinton 74, Castle 0, Johnson 9, Stein 2,
> Moorehead 1, De La Fuente 2, Fox 0, McMullin 1, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Kenistoni 0,
> Kotlifoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysiki 0
> Recount results: No change in totals
orig pres vote count: 259
Voters from Registration List: 257
recount pres. votes: 259
So 2 votes more than Registration List!!
> Town of Bartelme
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 72, Clinton 221, Castle 3, Johnson 6, Stein 16,
> Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 1, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Kenistoni 0,
> Kotlifoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysiki 0
> Number of Voters from Registration List: 322
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 14
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 13
> Notes: Ballots hand counted. One absentee not returned.
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 72, Clinton 221, Castle 3, Johnson 6, Stein 16,
> Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 1, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Kenistoni 0,
> Kotlifoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysiki 0
> Recount Results: No change in totals
orig pres vote count: 319
Number of Voters from Registration List: 322
recount pres. votes: 319
So 2 fewer votes than Registration List.
> Town of Belle Plaine
> Reporting Unit: Wards 1-3
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 650, Clinton 270, Castle 6, Johnson 35, Stein 2,
> Moorehead 1, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, Mc Mullin 4, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voters from Registration List: 992
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 131
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 130
> Notes: Ballots hand counted. The numbers were not the same as election night. Several
> ballots had very short lines and did not totally connect the arrow. Tabulator could not detect
> voter's intent.
> Several ballots circled candidate or did not connect arrow.
> Several voter's ballots did not vote for president.
> One absentee ballot not returned.
> Exhibit # 2 - Reviewed a ballot,
> person voted for 2 candidates, assume ballot was not counted. The ballot was marked with
> exhibit #2 and placed in a separate envelope. Did not count.
Why was not voting machine programmed to reject the '2 candidate selection'?
> Exhibit #3 - One ballot had very short markings by the candidate selected. Board of Canvasser
> (BOC) believed that machine did not count this ballot. BOC voted to accept the ballot because
> voter's intent could be determined.
Possible false under count / machine short coming.
Nice work, that they recovered 1 vote.
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 658, Clinton 272, Castle 6, Johnson 37, Stein 2,
> Moorehead 1, DeLa Fuente 0, Fox 0, Mc Mullin 4, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: Trump increased by 8, Clinton increased by 2, Johnson increased by 2.
orig pres vote count: 968
Number of Voters from Registration List: 992
recount pres. votes: 980
There were 980 - 968 or 12 additional pres. votes after recount.
Registration List had 12 more votes than the 980 after recount. Some of these
could be those voters that did not vote for president as noted in their report.
> Town of Birnamwood
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1-2
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 210, Clinton 125 , Castle 2., Johnson 7, Stein 3,
> Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 1, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Kenistoni 0,
> Kotlifoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysiki 0
> Number of Voters from Registration List: 357
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 22
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 22
> Notes: First attempt, the ballots were counted with tabulator. Tabulator was borrowed from a
> different municipality. Numbers were not the same as election night.
Machine recount results mismatched, enough that they were ignored, and hand recount was done.
> It was decided to hand
> count the ballots and look for voters intent. Machine did not detect several ballots when the
> arrow was not totally connected when selecting candidates.
Voting machine not designed to see; probably ignored "incompletely connected 'arrow'" votes.
> Some candidates selected were circled.
Voting machine not designed to see; probably ignored "circle-selected votes".
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 214, Clinton 125, Castle 2, Johnson 8,
> Stein 4, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Kenistoni 0,
> Kotlifoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysiki 0
> Recount Result : Trump received 4 more votes. Stein received 1 more vote.
orig pres vote count: 346
Number of Voters from Registration List: 357
recount pres. votes: 353
Registration list had 4 more voters than pres. votes in recall; no mention
of ballots found without pres. votes.
Changes
Trump: +4
Johnson: +1
Stein: +1
> Town of Fairbanks
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1-2
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 243, Clinton 56 , Castle 1, Johnson 13 , Stein 3,
> Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Kenistoni 0,
> Kotlifoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysiki 0
> Number of Voters from Registration List: 318
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 8
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 8
> Notes: Ballots hand counted. One ballot marked as Exhibit #9, Town of Fairbanks. One voter T
> Frederick voted by absentee and application is on file, but no affidavit envelope. Municipal
> Clerk was contacted and could not find envelope and BOC accepted the additional ballot. Not
> the voters fault.
Accepted 1 absentee ballot w/o affidavit envelope; "Not the voters fault.".
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 243, Clinton 56 , Castle 1, Johnson 13 , Stein 3,
> Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Kenistoni 0,
> Kotlifoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysiki 0
> Recount Results: No change in totals
orig pres vote count: 316
Number of Voters from Registration List: 318
recount pres. votes: 316
Registration list had 2 more voters than pres. votes in recall; no mention
of ballots found without pres. votes.
> Town of Germania
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 110, Clinton 69, Castle 0, Johnson 3,
> Stein 2, Moorehead 1, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voters from Registration List: 186
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 12
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 10
> Notes: Ballots hand counted. Two absentee ballots not returned.
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 110, Clinton 70, Castle 0, Johnson 3,
> Stein 2, Moorehead 1, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: Change - 1 more vote for Clinton
orig pres vote count: 185
Number of Voters from Registration List: 186
recount pres. votes: 186
Recount Results: Change - 1 more vote for Clinton
Not clear if additional vote was due machine not detecting voter intent, or
to 1 ballot not counted at all in election.
> Town of Grant
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1 - 2
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 363, Clinton 97, Castle 4, Johnson 10,
> Stein 5, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Votes from Registration List: 480
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 17
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 17
> Notes: Ballots hand counted.
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 363, Clinton 97, Castle 4, Johnson 10,
> Stein 5, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: No change to any totals
orig pres vote count: 479
Number of Voters from Registration List: 480
recount pres. votes: 479
Registration list had 1 more voters than pres. votes in recall; no mention
of ballots found without pres. votes.
> Town of Green Valley
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1 -2
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 369, Clinton 133, Castle 4, Johnson 19,
> Stein 3, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 1, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voters from Registration List: 535
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 26
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 26
> Notes: Ballots hand counted. No issues.
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 369, Clinton 133, Castle 4, Johnson 19,
> Stein 3, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 1, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: No change to totals
orig pres vote count: 529
Number of Voters from Registration List: 535
recount pres. votes: 529
Registration list had 6 more voters than pres. votes in recall; no mention
of ballots found without pres. votes.
> Town of Hartland
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 309, Clinton 58, Castle 0, Johnson 19,
> Stein 0, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 1, Fox 0, McMullin 2, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voter from Registration List: 395
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 27
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 25
> Notes: Ballots hand counted. 2 absentee ballots not returned
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 311, Clinton 59, Castle 0, Johnson 19,
> Stein 0, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 1, Fox 0, McMullin 2, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff, Hoefling, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: Trump increased by 2 votes, Clinton increased by 1 vote.
orig pres vote count: 389
Number of Voters from Registration List: 395
recount pres. votes: 392
Registration list had 3 more voters than pres. votes in recall; no mention
of ballots found without pres. votes.
"Recount Results: Trump increased by 2 votes, Clinton increased by 1 vote."
Not clear if additional vote(s) due machine not detecting voter intent, or
to ballot(s) not counted at all in election.
> Town of Herman
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1-2
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 269, Clinton 93, Castle 4, Johnson 7,
> Stein 3, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 8, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voter from Registration List: 383
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 13
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 13
> Notes: Ballots hand counted.
> There were 384 ballots with only 383 voters. Inspector statement showed that when a voter
> was casting a vote on the DRE (touch screen voting machine) it ran out of paper. Inspectors did
> not think the vote was counted and allowed person to use optical scan ballot also. The BOC at
> random pulled one ballot out of the pile of ballots. Trump was marked on the selected ballot
> and the tally sheet was adjusted. Trump lost 1 vote. This ballot was marked as Exhibit # 7
> Recount Vote total for Reporting Unit: Trump 268, Clinton 93, Castle 4, Johnson 7,
> Stein 13, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 8, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston
> 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: Trump lost 1 vote.
orig pres vote count: 384
Number of Voters from Registration List: 383
recount pres. votes: 393
Registration list had 1 less voters than pres. votes in election.
One voter may have voted twice...:
There were 384 ballots with only 383
voters. Inspector statement showed that when a
voter was casting a vote on the DRE (touch screen
voting machine) it ran out of paper. Inspectors
did not think the vote was counted and allowed
person to use optical scan ballot also. The BOC
at random pulled one ballot out of the pile of
ballots. Trump was marked on the selected ballot
and the tally sheet was adjusted. Trump lost 1
vote. This ballot was marked as Exhibit # 7
Registration list had 10 less voters than pres. votes in recall!
"Recount Results: Trump lost 1 vote."
Stein gained 10 (typo in their report?).
> Town of Hutchins
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 202, Clinton 62, Castle 4, Johnson 10,
> Stein 1, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voters from Registration List: 287
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 24
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 24
> Notes: Ballots hand counted. Voter was allowed to vote at the Clerk's office, but the
> application envelope was not witnessed by the municipal clerk. The ballot was accepted on
> election night and was also accepted by the BOC. The envelope was marked as exhibit # 1. And
> placed back in the municipal clerk's county supply envelope.
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 203, Clinton 63, Castle 4, Johnson 10, Stein 1,
> Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: No change in totals
orig pres vote count: 279
Number of Voters from Registration List: 287
recount pres. votes: 281
Registration list had 6 more voters than pres. votes in recall; no mention
of ballots found without pres. votes.
Recount changes:
Trump: +1
Clinton: +1
Not clear if additional vote(s) due machine not detecting voter intent, or
to ballot(s) not counted at all in election.
> Town of Lessor
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1-2
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 490, Clinton 141, Castle 3, Johnson 21,
> Stein 0, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 2, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voter from Registration List: 666
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 42
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 40
> Notes: Ballots hand counted. Two absentee ballots not returned.
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit : Trump 490, Clinton 141, Castle 3, Johnson 21,
> Stein 0, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 4, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0,
> Keniston 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: McMullin received 2 more votes.
orig pres vote count: 657
Number of Voters from Registration List: 666
recount pres. votes: 659
Registration list had 7 more voters than pres. votes in recall; no mention
of ballots found without pres. votes.
"Recount Results: McMullin received 2 more votes."
Not clear if additional vote(s) due machine not detecting voter intent, or
to ballot(s) not counted at all in election.
> Town of Maple Grove
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1-2
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 320, Clinton 147, Castle 2, Johnson 11,
> Stein 3, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoeflin 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voter from Registration List: 492
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 64
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 64
> Notes: Ballots hand counted.
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 320, Clinton 147, Castle 2, Johnson 11,
> Stein 3, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: No change to totals
orig pres vote count: 483
Number of Voters from Registration List: 492
recount pres. votes: 483
Registration list had 9 more voters than pres. votes in recall; no mention
of ballots found without pres. votes.
The trend seems to be that the registration list is almost always a few votes higher than
the recount of total pres. votes *and* that the recount report as a rule does not mention the number
of ballots w/o pres. votes. I assume it is these ballots w/o pres. votes that explain the
higher count on the registration list.
> Town of Morris
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1-2
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 131, Clinton 80, Castle 3, Johnson 6,
> Stein 1, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voter from Registration List: 226
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 20
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 20
> Notes: Ballots hand counted no major issues.
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 131, Clinton 79, Castle 3, Johnson 6,
> Stein 1, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: Clinton lost 1 vote.
orig pres vote count: 221
Number of Voters from Registration List: 226
recount pres. votes: 220
Registration list had 6 more voters than pres. votes in recall; no mention
of ballots found without pres. votes.
"Recount Results: Clinton lost 1 vote."
Since machines seem careful not to guess voter intent, it is hard to understand how
this could happen. There is no reported explanation for this lost vote.
> Town of Navarino
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 162, Clinton 65, Castle 0, Johnson 5,
> Stein 1, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 4, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voter from Registration List: 240
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 13
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 13
> Notes: Ballots hand counted
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 162, Clinton 65, Castle 0, Johnson 5,
> Stein 1, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 4, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: No change
orig pres vote count: 237
Number of Voters from Registration List: 240
recount pres. votes: 237
Registration list had 3 more voters than pres. votes in recall; no mention
of ballots found without pres. votes.
> Town of Pella
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 378, Clinton 98, Castle 0, Johnson 14,
> Stein 2, Moorehead 1, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 2, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voters from Registration List: 498
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 34
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 34
> Notes: Ballots hand counted
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 378, Clinton 98, Castle 0, Johnson 14,
> Stein 2, Moorehead 1, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 2, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: No change to any totals
orig pres vote count: 495
Number of Voters from Registration List: 498
recount pres. votes: 495
Registration list had 3 more voters than pres. votes in recall; no mention
of ballots found without pres. votes.
> Town of Red Springs
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 189, Clinton 219, Castle 3, Johnson 12,
> Stein 9, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 2, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0,
> Keniston 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voter from Registration List: 444
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 40
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 40
> Notes: Ballots hand counted
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 190, Clinton 219, Castle 3, Johnson 12,
> Stein 9, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 2, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0,
> Keniston 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: Trump received 1 more vote.
orig pres vote count: 434
Number of Voters from Registration List: 444
recount pres. votes: 435
"Recount Results: Trump received 1 more vote."
Registration list had 9 more voters than pres. votes in recall; no mention
of ballots found without pres. votes.
Not clear if additional vote(s) due machine not detecting voter intent, or
to ballot(s) not counted at all in election.
> Town of Richmond
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1-3
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 740, Clinton 254, Castle 5, Johnson 25,
> Stein 6 , Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voter from Registration List: 1049
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 167
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 163
> Notes: Ballots hand counted: Upon hand counting the number of ballots, 1050 were counted.
From above that *all* ballots were hand counted.
Total count of ballots (1050) was one more than count in Registration List (1049).
> One blank ballot for the presidential race was withdrawn. This ballot was marked as Exhibit #
> 10. This process did not affect the total votes cast for president.
So no vote for pres. on withdrawn ballot.
> The tabulator showed 10 under votes.
10 ballots w/o pres. vote.
> After hand counting the ballots, 8 ballots were found that the machine was unable to
> detect the voter's intent.
I assume, in hand count intent was determined.
> Two ballots were blank for the presidential office.
> Four absentee ballots were not returned.
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 735, Clinton 257, Castle 5, Johnson 26,
> Stein 6 , Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: Trump received 5 more votes, Clinton received 3 more votes and Johnson
> received 1 more vote.
Minutes say:
Recount Results:
Trump received 5 more votes,
Clinton received 3 more votes and
Johnson received 1 more vote.
ERROR: their tallies above show in the recount:
Trump *lost* 5 votes
Clinton gained 3 votes
Johnson gained 1 vote
Overall lost 1 vote
hand count of paper ballots: 1050
orig pres vote count: 1030
Number of Voters from Registration List: 1049
recount pres. votes: 1029
recount- no vote for pres: 2 (an additional one was thrown out)
recount- eyeball detected intent: 8?
(reg list) - ( (rec pres. votes) + (rec pres under-votes) ) = 20 -2 -1 = 17
Registration list had 20 more voters than pres. votes in recall;
mentioned they found 2 ballots found without pres. votes (add 1 more
for the thrown out ballot); that still suggests 17 more on register
than the total number of ballots. So what about these 17?
> Town of Seneca
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 176, Clinton 88, Castle 3, Johnson 9,
> Stein 3 , Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voter from Registration List: 282
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 26
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 26
> Notes: Ballots hand counted
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 176, Clinton 88, Castle 3, Johnson 9,
> Stein 3 , Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: No change to totals previously reported.
orig pres vote count: 279
Number of Voters from Registration List: 282
recount- pres. votes: 279
recount- no vote for pres: 0
(reg list) - ( (rec pres. votes) + (rec pres under-votes) ) = 3
Registration list had 3 more voters than pres. votes in recall; no mention
of ballots found without pres. votes.
> Town of Washington
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1-2
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 668, Clinton 282, Castle 9, Johnson 16,
> Stein 7, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voters from Registration List: 1007
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 95
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 95
> Notes: Ballots hand counted. Trump received 1 more vote with the optical scan ballots.
> County Board of Canvass missed 5 for McMullin when reconciling County Canvass.
?
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 669, Clinton 282, Castle 9, Johnson 17 ,
> Stein 7, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 5, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results:
> Trump received 1 more vote,
> Johnson received 1 more and
> McMullen increase 5 more votes.
recount chgs by candidate:
Trump: +1
Johnson: +1
McMullen: +5
Not clear if additional vote(s) due machine not detecting voter intent, or
to ballot(s) not counted at all in election.
orig pres vote count: 982
count of voters on registration list: 1007
recount- pres. votes: 989
recount- no vote for pres: 0
recount- eyeball detected intent: 7?
(reg list) - ( (rec pres. votes) + (rec pres under-votes) ) = 18
Registration list had 18 more voters than pres. votes in recall; no mention
of ballots found without pres. votes.
tags: #intent?
> Town of Waukechon
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1-2
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 385, Clinton 107, Castle 0, Johnson 29,
> Stein 5, Moorehead 1 , De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 2, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voters from Registration List: 538
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 19
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 18
> Notes: Ballots hand counted. Increase in totals due to tabulating machine that could not
> detect voter's intent.
> One absentee ballot not returned.
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 388, Clinton 109, Castle 0, Johnson 29,
> Stein 5, Moorehead 1 , De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 3, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0,
> Keniston 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: Trump increased by 3 votes, Clinton increased by 2 votes, McMullin
> increased by 1 vote
recount chgs by candidate
Clinton : +2
Trump : +3
McMullin : +1
orig pres vote count: 529
count of voters on registration list: 538
recount- pres. votes: 535
recount- no vote for pres: 0
recount- eyeball detected intent 6
(reg list) - ( (rec pres. votes) + (rec pres under-votes) ) = 3
Registration list had 3 more/less voters than pres. votes in recall; no mention
of ballots found without pres. votes.
tags: #intent
> Town of Wescott
> Reporting Unit: Wards 1-5
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 1107, Clinton 532, Castle 5, Johnson 45,
> Stein 10, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 2, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0,
> Keniston 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voter from Registration List: 1732
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 533
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 531
> Notes: Ballots hand counted Two absentee ballots not returned.
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 1107, Clinton 532, Castle 5, Johnson 45,
> Stein 10, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 3, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0,
> Keniston 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: McMullin gained 1 vote.
recount chgs by candidate
McMullin : +1
------------------------------
Total : +1
orig pres vote count: 1701
count of voters on registration list: 1732
recount- pres. votes: 1702
(abs ballots)/(reg list count) 31% (high)
(reg list) - ( (rec pres. votes) + (rec pres under-votes) ) =
Registration list had 30 more voters than pres. votes in recall; no mention
of ballots found without pres. votes.
tags: #abshigh, #intent?
> Town of Wittenberg
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1-2
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 296, Clinton 135, Castle 3, Johnson 11,
> Stein 3, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0,
> Keniston 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voter from Registration List: 454
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 40
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 40
> Notes: Ballots hand counted Tabulating machine did not detect voter's intent for Trump.
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 298, Clinton 135, Castle 3, Johnson 11,
> Stein 3 , Moorehead 0 , De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston
> 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: Trump received 2 more votes
recount chgs by candidate
Trump : +2
orig pres vote count: 448
count of voters on registration list: 454
recount- pres. votes: 450
recount- no vote for pres: 0
recount- eyeball detected intent 2
sum of absolute values of votes chgs: 2
(reg list) - ( (rec pres. votes) + (rec pres under-votes) ) = 4
Registration list had 4 more/less voters than pres. votes in recall; no mention
of ballots found without pres. votes.
tags: #intent
> Village of Aniwa
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 63, Clinton 31, Castle 2, Johnson 6, Stein 1,
> Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voter from Registration List: 103
> Number of absentee applications: 6
> Number of absentee voters: 6
> Notes: Ballots hand counted. One absentee ballot not returned
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 63, Clinton 31, Castle 2, Johnson 6, Stein 1,
> Moorehead 0, De LaFuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: No change to the totals.
orig pres vote count: 103
count of voters on registration list: 103
recount- pres. votes: 103
perfect!
> Village of Birnamwood
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 183, Clinton 117, Castle 0, Johnson 10 ,
> Stein 5 , Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston
> 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voters from Registration List: 319
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 14
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 13
> Notes: Ballots hand counted and
> Municipal BOC miscounted total of ballots. Trump lost one
> vote. One absentee ballot not returned. One ballot marked Exhibit #11 was over voted.
> We believe municipal Board of Canvass counted Trump in error.
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 182, Clinton 117, Castle 0 , Johnson 10 ,
> Stein 5 , Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0,
> Keniston 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: Trump lost 1 vote.
recount chgs by candidate
Trump : -1
w/r to above "downvote", hard to see how machine could over count?!
orig pres vote count: 315
count of voters on registration list: 319
recount- pres. votes: 314
recount- no vote for pres:
recount- eyeball detected intent:
recount- pres. over vote: 1
#tags: #overvote, #downvote
(reg list) - ( (rec pres. votes) + (rec pres under-or-over-votes) ) = 4
Registration list had 5 more voters than pres. votes in recall; only 1
(an overvote) is mentioned in their report.
> Village of Bonduel
> Reporting Unit: Wards 1 -2
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 496, Clinton 168 , Castle 4 , Johnson 27,
> Stein 4, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 3, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0,
> Keniston 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voter from Registration List: 717
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 121
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 118
> Notes: Ballots hand counted. Municipal BOC miscounted paper ballots for Johnson. Two
> absentee ballots not returned.
> One person voted in person and did not return original
> absentee ballot.
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 496, Clinton168, Castle 4, Johnson 26,
> Stein 4 , Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 3, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: Johnson lost 1 vote
recount chgs by candidate
Johnson : -1
w/r to above "downvote", hard to see how machine could over count?!
tags: #downvote
orig pres vote count: 702
count of voters on registration list: 717
recount- pres. votes: 701
(reg list) - ( (rec pres. votes) + (rec pres under-votes) ) = 16
Registration list had 16 more voters than pres. votes in recall; no mention
of ballots found without pres. votes.
> Village of Bowler
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 74, Clinton 37, Castle 0, Johnson 3,
> Stein 5, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 1, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0,
> Keniston 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voter from Registration List: 321
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 6
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 5
> Notes: Ballots hand counted. One absentee ballot not returned.
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 74, Clinton 37, Castle 0, Johnson 3,
> Stein 5 , Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 1, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston
> 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: no change in totals
orig pres vote count: 120
count of voters on registration list: 321
recount- pres. votes: 120
(reg list) - ( (rec pres. votes) + (rec pres under-votes) ) = 201
Registration list had 201 more voters than pres. votes in recall; no mention
of ballots found without pres. votes. Maybe a typo 321 vs 121?
> Village of Cecil
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 214, Clinton 91, Castle 1 , Johnson 11,
> Stein 0, Moorehead 0 , De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 1, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston
> 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voter from Registration List: 319
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 68
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 67
> Notes: Ballots hand counted. This municipality shares voting machine with the Town of
> Washington as they share polling locations. One absentee voter did not return a ballot.
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 214, Clinton 91, Castle 1, Johnson 11,
> Stein 0, Moorehead 0 , De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 1, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston
> 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: no change to previous totals.
orig pres vote count: 318
count of voters on registration list: 319
recount- pres. votes: 318
(reg list) - ( (rec pres. votes) + (rec pres under-votes) ) = 1
Registration list had 1 more voters than pres. votes in recall; no mention
of ballots found without pres. votes.
> Village of Eland
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 47, Clinton 58, Castle 0, Johnson 2,
> Stein 1 , Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voter from Registration List: 113
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 12
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 12
> Notes: Ballots hand counted
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 47, Clinton 58, Castle 0, Johnson 2,
> Stein 1, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: No change to totals
orig pres vote count: 108
count of voters on registration list: 113
recount- pres. votes: 108
(reg list) - ( (rec pres. votes) + (rec pres under-votes) ) = 5
Registration list had 5 more voters than pres. votes in recall; no mention
of ballots found without pres. votes.
> Village of Gresham
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 120, Clinton 105, Castle 0, Johnson 10,
> Stein 10 , Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0,
> Keniston 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voter from Registration List: 250
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 23
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 22
> Notes: Ballots hand counted. One absentee ballot not returned.
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 121, Clinton 105, Castle 0 , Johnson 9,
> Stein 10, Moorehead 0 , De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston
> 0, Kotlikoff, Hoefling, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: Trump gained one vote
recount chgs by candidate
Trump : +1
orig pres vote count: 245
count of voters on registration list: 250
recount- pres. votes: 245
recount- no vote for pres:
recount- eyeball detected intent 1 ( My assumption - they converted an undervote to a pres. vote. )
recount- pres. over vote:
(reg list) - ( (rec pres. votes) + (rec pres under-votes) ) = 5
Registration list had 5 more voters than pres. votes in recall; no mention
of ballots found without pres. votes.
> Village of Mattoon
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 102, Clinton 42, Castle 1, Johnson 2,
> Stein 0 , Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston
> 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0 , Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voter from Registration List: 148
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 10
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 7
> Notes: Ballots hand counted. There were 3 ballots that were incorrectly counted on election
> night. Trump lost 3 votes and Clinton gained 3 votes.
> There were three absentee ballots not returned.
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 99, Clinton 45, Castle 1, Johnson 2,
> Stein 1, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0 , Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: Trump lost 3 votes, Clinton increased by 3 votes.
recount chgs by candidate
Trump : -3
Clinton : +3
Stein : +1
w/r to above Trump "downvote", hard to see how machine could over count?!
orig pres vote count: 147
count of voters on registration list: 148
recount- pres. votes: 148
(reg list) - ( (rec pres. votes) + (rec pres under-votes) ) = 1
Registration list had 1 more/less voters than pres. votes in recall; no mention
of ballots found without pres. votes.
#tags: #downvote, #intent
> Village of Pulaski
> Reporting Unit: Ward 4, and Ward 7
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 42, Clinton 18, Castle 1, Johnson 5,
> Stein 1, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voter from Registration List: 68
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 9
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 9
> Notes: Ballots hand counted
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 42, Clinton 18, Castle 1, Johnson 5,
> Stein 1, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: No change to the totals
orig pres vote count: 67
count of voters on registration list: 68
recount- pres. votes: 67
(reg list) - ( (rec pres. votes) + (rec pres under-votes) ) = 1
Registration list had 1 more voters than pres. votes in recall; no mention
of ballots found without pres. votes.
> Village of Tigerton
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 230, Clinton 113, Castle 2, Johnson 7,
> Stein 2, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 1, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0 , Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voter from Registration List: 360
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 26
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 26
> Notes: Ballots hand counted
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 230, Clinton 113, Castle 2 , Johnson 7,
> Stein 2, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 1, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0,
> Keniston 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: No change to totals.
orig pres vote count: 355
count of voters on registration list: 360
recount- pres. votes: 355
(reg list) - ( (rec pres. votes) + (rec pres under-votes) ) = 5
Registration list had 5 more voters than pres. votes in recall; no mention
of ballots found without pres. votes.
> Name of Municipality: Village of Wittenberg
> Reporting Unit: Ward 1 -2
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 205, Clinton 167, Castle 3, Johnson 15,
> Stein 5 , Moorehead 0 , De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 2, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston
> 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0 , Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voter from Registration List: 404
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 75
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 73
> Notes: hand counted ballots. Two more votes found for Johnson because machine could not
> detect voter's intent.
> Two absentee ballots not returned.
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 205, Clinton 167, Castle 3, Johnson 17,
> Stein 5 , Moorehead 0 , De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 2, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston
> 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0 , Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: Johnson gained 2 votes
recount chgs by candidate
Johnson : +2
tags: #intent
orig pres vote count: 397
count of voters on registration list: 404
recount- pres. votes: 399
recount- eyeball detected intent 2
(reg list) - ( (rec pres. votes) + (rec pres under-votes) ) = 5
Registration list had 5 more voters than pres. votes in recall; no mention
of ballots found without pres. votes.
> City of Marion
> Reporting Unit: Ward 4-6
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 3, Clinton 2, Castle 0, Johnson 0,
> Stein 0 , Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0, Keniston 0,
> Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0 , Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voter from Registration List: 5
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 1
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 1
> Notes: The Board of Canvass requested Waupaca County Board of Canvass to canvass the
> ballots that were on the Edge tape for Ward 4-6. Ballots for Shawano County residents are on
^^^^^^^^^??
> the same Edge tape with Waupaca County residents. This was approved by the WEC per a
> phone call to have adjoining County canvassers complete. Results were then emailed to
> Shawano County Clerk.
> The recount tally was then recorded. No change.
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 3, Clinton 2, Castle 0, Johnson 0,
> Stein 0, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0,
> Keniston 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: no change in totals
orig pres vote count: 5
count of voters on registration list: 5
recount- pres. votes: 5
> City of Shawano Ward 1- -2
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 351, Clinton 207, Castle 6, Johnson 22,
> Stein 3, Moorehead 1, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0,
> Keniston 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voters from Registration List: 599
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 161
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 160
~27% absentee votes, seems fairly high.
> Notes: Ballots hand counted, one absentee not returned. One ballot was marked as Exhibit #4
> because BOC could not determine the voter's intent. Trump was crossed out and penciled an
> arrow over to a different candidate (Cowles).
Notice Cowles not listed, so must be write in I assume.
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 351, Clinton 207, Castle 6, Johnson 22 ,
> Stein 3, Moorehead 1 , De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 1, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0,
> Keniston 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: McMullin received 1 more vote
recount chgs by candidate
McMullin : +1
orig pres vote count: 590
count of voters on registration list: 599
recount- pres. votes: 591
(reg list) - ( (rec pres. votes) + (rec pres under-votes) ) = 1
Registration list had 1 more/less voters than pres. votes in recall; no mention
of ballots found without pres. votes.
tags: #abshigh, #intent, #write-in, #flip
> City of Shawano, Ward 3 - 4
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 343, Clinton 212, Castle 4, Johnson 29 ,
> Stein 7, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 4 , Matureni 0, Schoenke 0,
> Keniston 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Solltysik 0
> Number of Voters from Registration List: 614
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 142
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 139
> Notes: Ballots hand counted Three ballots not returned.
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 343, Clinton 212, Castle 4, Johnson 29 ,
> Stein 7, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 5, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0,
> Keniston 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Solltysik 0
> Recount Results: Change - McMullin add 1 vote. No other changes.
recount chgs by candidate
McMullin : +1
orig pres vote count: 599
count of voters on registration list: 614
recount- pres. votes: 600
recount- eyeball detected intent: 1?
(reg list) - ( (rec pres. votes) + (rec pres under-votes) ) = 14
Registration list had 14 more voters than pres. votes in recall; no mention
of ballots found without pres. votes.
tags: #intent
> City of Shawano Ward 5 - 6
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 324, Clinton 237, Castle 4, Johnson 17,
> Stein 12, Moorehead 1, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 3 , Matureni 0, Schoenke 0,
> Keniston 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voters from Registration List: 607
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 135
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 134
> Notes: Ballots hand counted. One absentee ballot not returned.
> Two absentee envelopes (MU and RU) did not have the signature of the municipal clerk or
> deputy. Both voters voted at the Clerk's office. This was not the voter's fault for the error. They
> were marked as Exhibit #5 and Exhibit # 6 BOC voted to accept both envelopes. The ballots
> were previously counted with no change to totals.
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 324, Clinton 237, Castle 4, Johnson 17,
> Stein 12, Moorehead 10, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 4 , Matureni 0, Schoenke 0,
> Keniston 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: McMullin - add one vote
recount chgs by candidate
McMullin : +1
Moorehead : +9 (typo in their report?)
orig pres vote count: 598
count of voters on registration list: 607
recount- pres. votes: 608
(reg list) - ( (rec pres. votes) + (rec pres under-votes) ) = -1
Registration list had 1 less voters than pres. votes in recall.
Suspect this was a typo in their recount count for Moorehead.
tags: #intent?, #typo?
> City of Shawano, Ward 7 - 8
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 302, Clinton 206, Castle 3, Johnson 23,
> Stein 7, Moorehead 1, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0,
> Keniston 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voters from Registration List: 555
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 139
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 137
> Notes: Ballots hand counted. Two absentee ballots not returned.
> One ballot marked as Exhibit #8- voter marked two candidates. BOC did not accept the ballot.
> Treated as an overvote. Voted for Trump and Kaine. It was with the regular ballots but
> apparently was not counted. Should have been placed in a separate envelope.
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 302, Clinton 207, Castle 3, Johnson 23,
> Stein 7, Moorehead 1 , De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0 , Matureni 0, Schoenke 0,
> Keniston 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: Clinton gained 1 more vote
recount chgs by candidate
Clinton : +1
orig pres vote count: 542
count of voters on registration list: 555
recount- pres. votes: 543
recount- pres. over vote: 1 "BOC did not accept the ballot."
recount- eyeball detected intent: 1?
tags: #overvote, #intent?
(reg list) - ( (rec pres. votes) + (rec pres under-votes) ) = 2
Registration list had 2 more voters than pres. votes in recall; no mention
of ballots found without pres. votes.
> City of Shawano, Ward 9 - 10
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 371, Clinton 277, Castle 3, Johnson 24,
> Stein 8, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 2, Fox 0, McMullin 1, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0,
> Keniston 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voter from Registration List: 702
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 242
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 239
> Notes: Ballots hand counted. The changes were found on the optical scan ballots. Machine
> could not detect voter's intent. One absentee voter deceased on election day, two absentee
> ballots returned and refused to vote.
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 372, Clinton 276, Castle 3, Johnson 24,
> Stein 8, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 2, Fox 0, McMullin 1, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0,
> Keniston 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: Trump gained 1 vote and Clinton lost 1 vote
recount chgs by candidate
Trump : +1
Clinton : -1
Detecting voter intent converts only under votes (ie ballots where machine
detects no pres. vote) right? So how could Clinton lose a vote, unless election day
machine flipped the vote from Trump to Clinton? Perhaps voter selected Clinton, then
made it clear w/a note on ballot that they changed to Trump.
orig pres vote count: 686
count of voters on registration list: 702
recount- pres. votes: 686
recount- eyeball detected intent 1?
(abs ballots)/(reg list count) 34% (seems high)
(reg list) - ( (rec pres. votes) + (rec pres under-votes) ) = 16
Registration list had 16 more/less voters than pres. votes in recall; no mention
of ballots found without pres. votes.
tags: #abshigh, #intent, #downvote, #flip
> City of Shawano, Ward 11 - 12
> Original Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 391, Clinton 260, Castle 4, Johnson 19,
> Stein 5, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0,
> Keniston 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Number of Voter from Registration List: 703
> Number of Absentee Ballot Applications: 190
> Number of Absentee Ballots: 186
> Notes: Ballots hand counted Four absentee ballots returned, refused to vote.
> Recount Vote Totals for Reporting Unit: Trump 391, Clinton 260, Castle 4, Johnson 19,
> Stein 5, Moorehead 0, De La Fuente 0, Fox 0, McMullin 0, Matureni 0, Schoenke 0,
> Keniston 0, Kotlikoff 0, Hoefling 0, Maldonado 0, Soltysik 0
> Recount Results: no change to the totals
orig pres vote count: 679
count of voters on registration list: 703
recount- pres. votes: 679
(abs ballots)/(reg list count) 26%
(reg list) - ( (rec pres. votes) + (rec pres under-votes) ) = 24
Registration list had 24 more/less voters than pres. votes in recall; no mention
of ballots found without pres. votes.
> The Board of Canvass and the tabulators worked on December 1, 2016, December
> 2, 2016, and December 5, 2016. The meeting was recessed each day and the
> tabulators finished at 3:00 on Monday, December 5th. The meeting was
> adjourned at 4:00 p.m. by Leanne Watry, Deputy County Clerk. Each night after
> tabulating the totals, the recounted totals were reported by the Clerk's office to
> the Wisconsin Election Commission. The final canvass was processed and signed
> by the Board of Canvassers. The final totals for all candidates are as follows:
> Donald Trump/Michael R. Pence 12,769
> Hilary Clinton/Tim Kaine 6,068
> Darrell Castle/Scott Bradley 108
> Gary Johnson/Bill Weld 613
> Jill Stein/Ajamu Baraka 173
> Monica Moorehead/Lamont Lilly 9
> Rocky Roque De La Fuente/Steinberg 8
> Cherunda Fox/Roger Kushner 0
> Evan McMullin/Nathan Johnson 62
> Michael Maturen/Juan Munoz 0
> Marshall Schoenke/Mitchell Jr 0
> Chris Keniston/Deacon Taylor 0
> Laurence Kotlikoff/Leamer 0
> nym Hoefling/Schulin 0
> Joseph Maldonado 0
> Soltysik/Walker 0
>
> The final result was that Donald Trump gained 27 votes, Clinton gained 12 votes,
> Johnson gained 5 votes, Stein gained 1 vote, McMullin gained 14 votes and all
> other candidates remain the same as the results certified by the County Board of
> Canvass on November 10, 2016.
>
>
> Recorded by: Rosemary Rueckert
> Recording Secretary
--SNIP/end of real work here.
# ======================================================================
# Template/reminder I used:
# ======================================================================
> [ ] abs ballet apps >= abs votes
> recount chgs by candidate
> candidateX : +-n
> candidateY : +-n
>
> w/r to above "downvote", hard to see how machine could over count?!
>
> number of paper ballots eyeballed:
Rarely given, but important.
> orig pres vote count:
Always given.
> count of voters on registration list:
Always given.
> recount- pres. votes:
Always given.
> recount- no vote for pres:
Not often given, but imp.
> recount- eyeball detected intent
Not often given, but imp.
> recount- pres. over vote:
Not often given, but imp.
> sum of absolute values of votes chgs:
>
> (reg list) - ( (rec pres. votes) + (rec pres under-votes) ) =
> Registration list had ? more/less voters than pres. votes in recall; xx mention
> of ballots found without pres. votes.
>
> Not clear if additional vote(s) due machine not detecting voter intent, or
> to ballot(s) not counted at all in election.
>
> (abs ballots)/(reg list count) > 28% ?
>
>
> tags: #intent, #reglist, #typo?, #undervote, #overvote, #abshigh, #downvote, #flip, #abswitness, #machine
>
How a #downvote might happen: Voter selects Trump properly, then changes mind, crosses out
Trump, and draws an arrow to, and circles their real choice. Machine counts vote for
Trump, but hand count flips vote to circled selection. See "City of Shawano Ward 1- -2".
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I would have appreciated a count of ballots w/o presidential votes (undercounts).
They did not report write-ins, even as a general “Scattering” tally..
There is apparently one mention, in passing about a write in ( Cowles) in “City of Shawano Ward 1- -2”.
Not tallying a count of all write-ins, probably explains why Reg List count is usually
higher than recount of pres. votes.
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Interesting procedure / best practices related comment:
City of Shawano, Ward 7 - 8:
> One ballot marked as Exhibit #8- voter marked two candidates. BOC did not accept the ballot.
> Treated as an overvote. Voted for Trump and Kaine. It was with the regular ballots but
> apparently was not counted. Should have been placed in a separate envelope.
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spoiler effect collection
- Hal Draper: https://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1967/01/lesser.htm
Quotes selected by Peter S. (from a socialist mailinglist):
“So who was really the Lesser Evil in 1964? The point is that it is the question which is a disaster, not the answer. In setups where the choice is between one capitalist politician and another, the defeat comes in accepting the limitation to this choice.”
“So besides Tweedledee-Tweedledums and besides the Lesser Evils who really are different in policy from the Greater Evils, we increasingly are getting this third type of case: the Lesser Evils who, as executors of the system, find themselves acting at every important juncture exactly like the Greater Evils, and sometimes worse. They are the product of the increasing convergence of liberalism and conservatism under conditions of bureaucratic capitalism. There never was an era when the policy of the Lesser Evil made less sense than now.”
- by WI Green James O’Neill https://www.freexenon.com/2020/07/09/lesser-of-two-evils-voting-is-antithetical-to-democracy/
- In Aug 2020, I’m still reading this. It’s good (so far), but it needs an editor/editing.
Ted Rall “Progressive Case for Voting Third Party…” | Aug 2020
Howie responds to Bill McKibben:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/28/ranked-choice-voting-an-idea-whose-time-has-come/
Bill McKibben – GPUS should not run presidencial candidate; instead the should campaign for instant run off voting/RCV:
Michael Albert’s ‘open letter’ to Howie Hawkins | the thread
To: gmfoopty-discussion@googlegroups.com
Subject: Jack Rasmus responds to Michael Albert’s ‘open letter’ to Howie Hawkins [spoiler effect/“lesser evilism”]
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 06:47:50 -0600
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+ wget –no-check-certificate -O - https://jackrasmus.com/2020/01/27/you-can-trust-left-liberals-to-be-liberals-first-and-left-last-a-reply-to-chomsky-freinds-open-letter
The Green vote in the swing states would not have gone to Hillary.
Those who voted Green would have instead stayed home and not voted
or would have written in some other candidate. Most Greens are Green
because they’ve come to understand what the Democrats in the era of
Neoliberalism really stand for, both in domestic and foreign policy:
escalating income inequality, precarious jobs, stagnant wages,
unaffordable healthcare, poverty in retirement, rising rents,
continuous wars, incessant tax cuts for the rich and their
corporations, indenture to student debt, etc. That’s the legacy of
both Republican and Democrat regimes since the 1970s–i.e. the past
50 years now. […]
Joe Biden is just another corporate moneybag wing Hillary clone. Not
for nothing is he known as ‘bankers friend Joe’ from Delaware (where
many big banks have their headquarters and politically own the
state). Ditto for the corporate Dems backup candidate, Mike
Bloomberg, a lifelong Republican billionaire only recently joined
the corporate wing of the Dems. […]
I’d support Sanders, but he’ll never get the Democrat nomination.
Even if he wins the primaries. For this isn’t the Democrat party of
FDR any more, as much as Bernie would like it to be. It’s a
corporate wing run party since Bill Clinton.
[… full article:]
You Can Trust ‘Left Liberals’ to be Liberals First (and Left Last): A Reply to
Chomsky & Friends’ Open Letter
January 27, 2020 by [1]jackrasmus
This past weekend a group best identified as ‘left liberal’
intellectuals posted an Open Letter’ to the Green Party charging that
party with being responsible for Hillary Clinton’s loss in 2016. They
then declared that the Green Party’s 2020 presidential candidate, Howie
Hawkins, should not run in 2020, lest the Greens become responsible for
getting Trump re-elected again. Everything should be done to ensure
that a Democrat Party candidate, whomever that might be, should win in
2020. That includes even Joe Biden, they say. Left liberals like
themselves should simply ‘hold their noses’ and vote for Biden, if
necessary, if he gets the nomination.
For someone like yours truly who has been around and seen the same
strategy of ‘lesser evilism’ repeated for a half century now–with
devastating consequences even when the lesser evil (aka Democrats) won
the presidency–it is not surprising to read and hear the ’left
liberals’ lament once again!
The coterie signatories of the ‘open letter’ include: Noam Chomsky,
Barbara Ehrenreich, Bill Fletcher, Leslie Cagan, Ron Daniels, slim
Kelly, Norman Solomon, Cynthia Peters and Michael Albert.
Their main argument, calling for Hawkins and the Greens to retreat from
the 2020 electoral field (and for the record I am not a Green party
member or a member of any other party), is that Hillary lost the swing
states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, etc. to Trump in 2016 but
would have won them–and thus the electoral college vote–if only those
who voted for the Greens presidential candidate, Jill Stein, in the
swing states had not done so but voted instead for Hillary.
It’s really a logically weak argument that one would think such ’power
intellectuals on the left’ would be hesitant to pen their name to it
out of concern they would have insulted themselves to their audience.
But they have.
The argument fails not only on the facts but on the amateur assumptions
on which it also rests.
First, logically it is juvenile in that it assumes that those who voted
for the Greens in 2016 in these swing states would have voted for
Hillary, had there not been a Green candidate on the ballot. Its hidden
assumption is that all of those Green votes would have voted Hillary
had Jill Stein not run. That these assumptions are nonsense is self
evident.
Clearly those who voted Green did so because they couldn’t stand
Hillary, or knew of her record, or understood that a vote for Hillary
would have meant a vote for war as well as more of the same failed
economic policies of the Bill Clinton-Obama era that created the real
conditions that gave rise to Trump.
The Green vote in the swing states would not have gone to Hillary.
Those who voted Green would have instead stayed home and not voted or
would have written in some other candidate. Most Greens are Green
because they’ve come to understand what the Democrats in the era of
Neoliberalism really stand for, both in domestic and foreign policy:
escalating income inequality, precarious jobs, stagnant wages,
unaffordable healthcare, poverty in retirement, rising rents,
continuous wars, incessant tax cuts for the rich and their
corporations, indenture to student debt, etc. That’s the legacy of both
Republican and Democrat regimes since the 1970s–i.e. the past 50 years
now.
Apart from weak logic and absurd (not so hidden) assumptions of the
Open Letter, there’s the voting evidence as well as Hillary’s own
self-destructive arrogance that explain the Democrats loss of the swing
states in 2016 and thus the rise of Trump.
First, the Left Liberal authors of the Open Letter in question fail to
explain that in the swing states Libertarian and other independent
voters cast three and four times the votes for Trump than the Green
party cast for its candidate, Dr. Jill Stein, in 2016. SO was it the
Greens’ fault? The Libertarians? Other third parties?
No, none of the above. Hillary herself lost the swing states and handed
Trump the presidency when she refused to even bother to campaign in
states like Michigan, Wisconsin, and barely showed up until the very
end when it was already too late. Hillary thought she had the ’blue
collar’ vote in those states wrapped up and arrogantly ignored
campaigning there. She ignored them. Took them for granted. And no one
votes for someone who arrogantly ignores them and takes them for
granted. Even if no Greens voted at all, Hillary would have lost the
swing states. But the Open Letter would have us believe it was someone
else’s fault, not Hillary’s.
If the Democrat leadership wants to win back swing state votes, it
needs someone ‘not Hillary’. But Joe Biden is just another corporate
moneybag wing Hillary clone. Not for nothing is he known as ’bankers
friend Joe’ from Delaware (where many big banks have their headquarters
and politically own the state). Ditto for the corporate Dems backup
candidate, Mike Bloomberg, a lifelong Republican billionaire only
recently joined the corporate wing of the Dems.
The fundamental argument of the Left Liberals’ in their Open Letter is
not just stop Trump by any means but, their argument behind the
argument that there’s a fundamental difference in voting for a
Democrat. (Or at least the corollary argument that the Democrat won’t
screw us as badly as will the Republican).
But what does the historical evidence show? Have the Corporate
Democrats been really any better over the past half century?
American voters, especially today’s Millenials, and now the GenZers, in
polls are saying ‘a plague on both houses’ of Democrats and
Republicans. They have lost hope of either party making a difference in
their lives. They see both as contributing to their deteriorating
conditions and near hopeless future, consisting of a lifetime of
precarious, part time/temp jobs, with no benefits, working two and
sometimes even three jobs to make ends meet, without affordable rents,
and no chance of owning a home, living a life of indentured labor
paying $1.6 trillion in student loans to the US government (at 6.8%
interest, by the way, while bankers pay 1.6%), without affordable
health insurance (including the soaring deductibles under Obamacare),
unable to afford to even start a family. It’s a bleak prospect, created
by both parties over recent decades.
It’s not coincidental that polls show, by well more than 50%, even as
high as 70%, that the more than 50 million Millenials and GenZers
prefer something called ‘socialism’ (although they’re probably not sure
what that means except ‘none of the present’).
If the DLC-Corporate-moneybag wing of the Democrat leadership puts up a
Biden or a Bloomberg–(i.e. latter their fallback at the Democrat party
convention after no one gets the nomination on the first vote)–even
more youth will not vote Democrat. And not just in the swing states.
And if the Democrat leaders continue to scuttle the Sanders
nomination–which they did in 2016 and show signs now of doing again in
2020–the Dems themselves, not a Green party candidacy, will once again
have put Trump in office. It won’t be the Greens.
Of course Republican ‘red state’ control of electoral college votes is
being ensured by voter suppression and gerrymandering. That will play a
role as well. But here the Democrats’ loss of state legislatures and
governorships under Obama, due to his ineffective economic policies in
2010 and after, have enabled that suppression and gerrymandering
largely to happen as well. It made possible the Republican capture of
two thirds of state legislatures, many of which have been pushing the
voter suppression and gerrymandering.
It’s not for nothing that Obama is sometimes referred to by youth as
‘president Jello’–meaning he appears to move left and right but really
is stuck in one place.
The Left Liberals’ Open Letter buys the Democrat moneybag wing’s
argument that a Joe Biden (or Mike Bloomberg) argument that Corporate
Democrat programs and policies are fundamentally better for average
voters than would be Trump’s.
They think that the typical working class voter in the swing states,
that abandoned Hillary in 2016 (or actually vice-versa), can’t figure
out the game. Or that youth voters today can’t either. But they’re
wrong.
Voters remember it was Bill Clinton had enabled NAFTA and sent millions
of heartland American jobs offshore. It was Clinton that allowed
hundreds of thousands of skilled tech workers into the US every year
under H1-B/L-1 visas. It was Clinton that gave China preferred trading
rights and allowed the shift of US manufacturing supply chains (and
millions more good paying jobs) to China. It was Clinton that allowed
corporations to ‘check the box’ on their tax forms and thereby not pay
taxes on foreign profits. It was Clinton that permitted companies to
divert funds from pension plans to pay for their corporations’ share of
escalating health care costs. It was Clinton that allowed the
deregulation of financial institutions that paved the way for subprime
mortgages and the crash of 2008-09. The list is longer still.
And what about the corporate Democrats’ last minute hand picked
candidate in 2008, Barack Obama? It was Obama that gave corporations $6
trillion in tax cuts from 2009-16, almost twice that even George W.
Bush gave them. It was Obama who agreed to $1.5 trillion in social
program spending cuts in 2011-13, thus taking back more than twice his
2009 recovery package of $878 billion. It was Obama who extended Bush’s
tax cuts two years, 2010-12, and then made them permanent after 2013,
amounting to another $5 trillion tax cuts for business and investors.
It was Obama who continued Free Trade deals despite their obvious
effects on jobs and wages, and then tried to push through the TPP trade
deal. It was Obama who had the Federal Reserve bail out the banks and
investors with the tune of at least $4.5 trillion, while he gave a mere
$25 billion to bail out just a few of the 14 million who lost their
homes. It was Obama who let Hillary start wars in Honduras to save the
big landowners there, and then gave Hillary the green light in Libya to
start another, creating that failed state there (as her hubby Bill did
in Somalia). It was Obama that authorized and set the precedent for
assassinations by drones (over 500 times on his watch). It was Obama
who supported the US central bank, the Federal Reserve, to continue
loaning banks free money, at an interest rate of 0.15% for seven years,
long after the banks were bailed out, while charging millions of US
students interest of 6.8% on their student loans to the government.
This is the decades long record that the Left Liberals want the US
working class, students, and others to vote for again. Their argument
is ‘anything but Trump’ will be better. But was it? Will it? Trump
might give us war with Iran. But Democrats might with Russia. Both
would give us invading Venezuela and continuing to rape South America.
I’m not talking here about Sanders, who the corporate wing will never
allow as the Democrat party candidate in 2020. In fact, now that
Sanders is rising in the polls and primaries, the corporate wing of the
Democrats attack on him has intensified. Not just from Hillary, but
from Warren, from the New myhost07 Times, and, as we’ll soon see, from all
quarters of the Liberal Elite and their media and their grass roots
operatives. Observing how Trump captured the Republican party, two
years ago the Democrats’ leaders changed the rules of the game on how
the party will run its convention this summer. They are prepared to
scuttle Sanders by any means necessary.
But our Left Liberal intellectuals say we should vote for their
candidate, Joe, if it comes down to that, just to beat Trump. But Trump
will eat ‘ole Joe’ alive in a one on one competition, sad to say. They
keep saying they want a candidate that can beat Trump. Then push one
who cannot. And the Left Liberals want us to vote for Joe and not for a
Green or anyone else. That’s the only way to win! It may be the sure
way to lose!
Vote for Joe and hold your nose, they say. The Left Liberal
intellectuals, who are mostly well ensconced in secure and decent
paying academic jobs, won’t be impacted much by Joe’s or Mike’s or
Pelosi’s or Shumer’s policies. But the rest who need a change will be.
The Open Letter represents just another form of ‘Liberal’ telling us to
vote for another Liberal. Where has that gotten us?
It’s the old ‘shell game’: Republicans make their capitalists filthy
rich and ruin the economy in the process. Corporate Democrats come in
and make the same even richer while failing to solve the crisis. Their
failure allows the Republicans to point to their failed recovery, again
to lie to us, and get back in. The process starts all over. It’s been
that way for at least 50 years.
And the Left Liberal intellectuals want us to buy into it for another
50?
I’d support Sanders, but he’ll never get the Democrat nomination. Even
if he wins the primaries. For this isn’t the Democrat party of FDR any
more, as much as Bernie would like it to be. It’s a corporate wing run
party since Bill Clinton. And the Left Liberal intellectuals have
bought into the corporate wing’s lie yet again, as they always have in
a crisis.
One wonders if they’ll vote for Sanders, should he run as an
independent after the Democrat leadership denies him the nomination at
their convention this summer. But I bet they’d still vote for Joe.
(Correct that: Mike).
Jack Rasmus January 28, 2020
[…]
References
1. https://jackrasmus.com/author/jackrasmus/
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[by] [[1]Howie Hawkins] […]
A Response to Michael Albert’s “Battle Strategically Everywhere”
[2]Michael[3]Albert’s safe states[4]strategy says the Green
presidential candidate should go into the battleground states to
campaign for the Green program but then say vote for the Democratic
ticket. Most people who hear that will wonder why the Greens are even
bothering to campaign if they want us to vote for the Democrat. Media
commentary will make fun of it. Safe-states messaging in the
battleground states will also undermine the Green campaign in the
so-called safe states. Why vote for a Green candidate in this state who
is telling people in other states to vote Democratic? Safe states is
just not a serious approach grounded in the practical realities of
election campaigning.
Albert even suggests that Greens should work for Bernie Sanders in the
Democratic primaries. The Greens have their own primaries and ballot
access petitions to do. They are busy with ongoing issue campaigns. It
is not the job of the Green Party to help a candidate in another party
win that party’s nomination.
Albert argues that electing a Democratic president, even a Biden or a
Bloomberg, is needed to stem the rising authoritarian right around the
world that Trump is very much a part of. I don’t see much Democratic
anti-authoritarianism. A strong majority of congressional Democrats
consistently supports the US global military empire that enforces
authoritarian stability against democratic uprisings. They support
Trump’s attempted coup in Venezuela. The previous Democratic
administration backed the anti-democratic coups in Honduras, Egypt, and
Ukraine. Trump’s imperial presidency builds on dangerous autocratic
precedents set by Obama’s presidency, notably his thousands of
drone-strike assassinations and his unprecedented use of the repressive
1917 Espionage Act to prosecute whistleblowers.
There are differences between the Democrats and Republicans. The
problem is how much they agree on pro-corporate economic and foreign
policies. The Democrats’ “all-of-the-above” pro gas and oil energy
policy is not much different from Trump’s policy in its practical
effect on the climate. The nuclear weapons modernization program
initiated under Obama and continued under Trump has sparked a new
nuclear arms race without challenge from any but a very few
congressional Democrats. I could go on at length. Voting for the lesser
evil does not stem the greater evil; it legitimizes it.
When a progressive votes for the Democrat as the lesser evil, nobody
knows if their vote is from a Sanders socialist or a Clinton
corporatist. It gets lost in the sauce. The progressive Democratic
votes are seen as votes for the corporate militarist Democratic agenda.
On the other hand, nobody confuses what a vote on the Green Party line
means.
Democrats take progressive votes for granted. They feel they have
progressive voters in their pocket. As long as prominent progressives
promulgate lesser-evil doctrines like safe states, Democrats are
reassured that they can appeal to voters of the center-right without
worrying that progressive voters will bolt for the Green left
alternative.
The safe states strategy is inside baseball that requires knowing how
the Electoral College works and what the polls say in a particular
state going into the voting booth. Most voters are not steeped in those
details, or care much about them if they are. Most people use their
vote to make a statement about their values and the policies they want.
For example, most Democrats vote Democratic even in overwhelmingly
Republican districts where their candidate has no chance of winning.
Often that values-and-policies vote is defensive; it is simply against
what they see as the greater evil. Telling progressives to vote for the
lesser-evil Democrat is telling them to vote against their values and
the policies they want. It is telling them to vote against the Green
left alternative.
In response to my statement that a 2016 vote for Jill Stein was “a vote
to demand a Green New Deal, improved Medicare for All, a job guarantee,
student debt relief, ending US military aggression, and fair
elections,” Albert asks “how did that go?”
Well, every presidential candidate, Democratic and Republican, is now
talking about the Green Party’s signature issue of the last decade, the
Green New Deal. The Democratic versions may be watered down. The
Republicans may be creating sham caricatures of it to ridicule. But
everybody is now talking about it. The Greens are in the debate as the
original Green New Dealers with the full-strength emergency program for
averting climate apocalypse. Getting into the debate is half the
battle. That is what third parties have done historically in the US.
They force neglected solutions onto the nation’s agenda.
When I ran for governor of New myhost07 in 2014 against the Democratic
governor, Andrew Cuomo, I got 5 percent of the vote campaigning for a
ban on fracking, a $15 minimum wage, paid family leave, and
tuition-free public college, among other demands that the governor
either opposed or ducked taking a position on. Cuomo had wanted to get
a higher vote than he got in 2010, more than his father Mario Cuomo
ever got, in order the lay the foundation for a presidential run.
Instead, his vote went down from 2010. Realizing that he could not take
our 5% progressive voting block for granted anymore, in his following
term Cuomo began calling himself the “pragmatic progressive” and backed
the fracking ban, the $15 minimum wage, paid family leave, and a new
state scholarship for public college students.
Voting for what you want works. It makes the politicians come to you to
compete for your vote. As Eugene Debs famously said, “It is better to
vote for what you want and not get it, than to vote for what you don’t
want and get it.” That is not just a moral statement; it is a strategic
statement.
Let me end with a point of agreement. Michael Albert is correct to note
that he and the others who signed their Open Letter advocating a safe
states strategy for the Greens are on the left. They are not the same
as the regular Democrats who routinely attack the Greens as “spoilers,”
“useful idiots for Republicans,” “Russian assets,” and, more
consequentially, work to keep Greens off the ballot with their lawyers
filing challenges to Green ballot petitions, their [5]officials
“losing” Green ballot access filings, and their legislators [6]changing
election laws to make it harder for the Greens to qualify for the
ballot.
It may be understandable that Greens who are under this constant
assault saw the Open Letter as another incoming salvo coming from the
same Democratic army’s artillery. But I would urge Greens and others on
the independent left who want to argue against lesser-evil and
safe-states electoral strategies not to conflate our progressive
critics with the corporate Democrats.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a progressive to the right of the signers
of the Open Letter on electoral strategy because [7]she advocates a
Democratic vote in every race. But she made an important point recently
when she noted that in any other country [8]she and Joe Biden would not
be in the same political party. The Greens and the signers of the Open
Letter would be in the same political party in any country with a
reasonable electoral system based on proportional representation in
legislatures and ranked-choice voting for executive offices.
Despite our differences on electoral strategy in 2020, we have broad
agreement on policy demands. We should have our strategy debate with
the idea that we are allies on policy, including transforming our
anti-democratic electoral system, and that we want to get to a future
where we are comrades in the same major party of the left.
[…]
References
1. https://www.counterpunch.org/author/chutha/
2. https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/31/battle-strategically-everywhere-response-to-hawkins-reply-to-open-letter/
3. https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/31/battle-strategically-everywhere-response-to-hawkins-reply-to-open-letter/
4. https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/31/battle-strategically-everywhere-response-to-hawkins-reply-to-open-letter/
5. http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176656/tomgram:frida_berrigan,”we_get_to_live_in_the_mayor’s_house!“/
6. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/nyregion/election-third-party-ny.html
7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW31C8Z4tOU
8. https://www.businessinsider.com/aoc-joe-biden-would-not-be-in-the-same-party-2020-1
H Hawkins responds to ‘Open Letter’
The Open Letter and the DNC | Rob Urie
Open letter dialog continues on ‘spoiler effect/safe-state-strategy’
covid19 health affects
Aspects of Russian Communism and Why Communism in the West Would Be Different, by Gaither Stewart
The Mongol (Tartar) domination of Russia (1240-1480) is considered even more ruinous than Western imperialism of our times. The Mongols brought the physical destruction, occupation and colonization of much of the known world of then. Militarily, the Mongol-Tartar invasion was devastating, its historical effect ambivalent and long-range significance immeasurable. Berdyaev (born Kiev, Russia, 1874, died, Clamart, France, 1948) did not witness the extent of superpower U.S. imperialism but he knew the Mongols. After widespread destruction and massacres of populations from China to Germany, the Mongol occupiers reigned over most of Russia from their capital near the Caspian Sea; mingling little in everyday Russian life, and demanding chiefly financial tributes and recognition of their domination—during which they themselves were gradually assimilated by the conquered … while Russians did not allow themselves to be tartarized by the conquerors. Hence, Russian historians have been divided between those who pay little attention to the Mongol domination and those who stress its destructive influence on Russia.
Perhaps the most enduring effect of the Mongol yoke was to cut off the dominated Russian lands from the West causing Russia to look eastwards, so powerful an influence that Russian civilization did not even experience the Renaissance of the West. Only later, Tsar Peter the Great traveled in the West and built St. Petersburg in order to turn Russian eyes westwards by force. Yet the divisions between Russia’s Westernizers who still today look westwards and Slavophiles who cling to pure Russian traditions and its Eastern soul have persisted. So that today the Russianness of the Slavophile outlook is much in vogue, that shadow influence buttressing Russia’s cold shoulder toward U.S. imposed economic sanctions.
Carol Brouillet intro
https://twitter.com/cbrouillet?lang=en
Work by or about Carol Brouillet
audio https://www.owltail.com/people/GSxhN-carol-brouillet/appearances
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/bay-area-to-host-911-conspiracy-movie-festival/1900764/
marchonthednc2020
https://www.facebook.com/MarchOnTheDNC2020
less censored video platforms | youtube alternatives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_video_hosting_services
As of Wed 09 Jun 2021, this info is perhaps 10 months old.
TODO
look at
survey articles
http://www.earnwithanish.com/sites-like-youtube-without-censorship/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitChute
BitChute is a video hosting service founded in 2017. It was created to allow video uploaders to avoid content rules enforced on YouTube. The platform accommodates far-right individuals and conspiracy theorists. The Southern Poverty Law Center says the site hosts “hate-fueled material”.
https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/bitchute/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive
Wonderful and well respected site, but not designed to compete directly with youtube. More of a great public service, than a mass audience marketing platform.
The license looks good.
Because the content of the Collections comes from around the world and from many different sectors, the Collections may contain information that might be deemed offensive, disturbing, pornographic, racist, sexist, bizarre, misleading, fraudulent, or otherwise objectionable. The Archive does not endorse or sponsor any content in the Collections, nor does it guarantee or warrant that the content available in the Collections is accurate, complete, noninfringing, or legally accessible in your jurisdiction, and you agree that you are solely responsible for abiding by all laws and regulations that may be applicable to the viewing of the content.
My 10 min web search suggests there are few complaints now about archive.org censoring or removing videos.
https://d.tube/
Seems new, no wikipedia page.
https://twitter.com/DTube_Official
https://www.reddit.com/r/dtube/
Because of the block chain, distributed storage model you can not delete content.
https://www.valleyarm.com/so-what-is-dtube/
You currently cannot delete a video from your channel. Once it’s uploaded, it stays online forever. This also means users need to be 100% confident in the content they upload because they cannot edit the video afterwards.
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/reasons-switch-youtube-to-dtube/
https://blockchain.news/news/will-dtube-replace-youtube-the-5-things-you-need-to-know
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steemit
bittube
This platform is the successor to bit.tube, launched in mid 2018 […]
https://bittube.tv/about/history
BitTube is a small company of about 15 people located in Tenerife, Spain. It was founded by CEO Saber Maram and it has been entirely self-funded from its inception […]
https://twitter.com/BitTubeApp
https://www.reddit.com/r/BitTube/
https://bittube.app/ browser extension
https://medium.com/crypto-space/bittube-may-19-2020-90ff64aa0ef3
https://www.coinbureau.com/review/bittube-tube/
https://www.reddit.com/r/BitChute/comments/91655v/bitchute_not_viable_bittube_is_the_future_of/
LBRY intro
https://www.reddit.com/r/lbry/
Small, young. Unproven mobile app? MIT? license/open source.
https://lbry.com/faq/different-bitchute
https://www.reddit.com/r/BitTube/comments/gbr3uf/my_reasons_for_not_liking_lbry_and_why_i_dont/
reviews or about
review https://youtu.be/lYCxx1gNgaw
about to launch: https://howdoo.io/faq/
PewTube
new defunct? “In 2018, the site was quietly taken offline.”
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/PewTube
pew.tube was a YouTube alternative operated by Anthony Mayfield with the self-proclaimed intention of being censorship-free.[3] This appears to be just a dogwhistle, as the creator frequently supported alt-right positions and attacks leftists. Fittingly, the website was flooded with alt-right and conspiracist videos.
PeerTube
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube
https://joinpeertube.org/ | “30,000 users… An open-source, free/libre licence code”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framasoft
forum: https://framacolibri.org/c/peertube
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_hosting_services
2020 Green Party Petitioning Venues or Ideas
Sorry… I moved this to
https://zq3q.org/gp/#op9pjwkde_2020_gp_petit
Derrick Jenson Resistance Radio Podcast
https://resistanceradioprn.podbean.com
https://www.youtube.com/c/DeepGreenResistanceOfficial/videos
ecology group ‘Deep Green Resistance’
I’ve been following Derrick Jenson for at least 10 years. I’m now vetting “Deep Green Resistance”.
Derrick Jenson | Resistance Radio| interviews Max Wilbert of DRG/Deep Green Resistance
Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.
3 part series ‘liberal vs radical’
https://youtu.be/7rcxnLO06CA
https://youtu.be/9PEZKllQKOQ
Deep Green Resistance links
https://deepgreenresistance.org/en/who-we-are/about-deep-green-resistance
https://derrickjensen.org/deep-green-resistance/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance
https://www.facebook.com/deepgreenresistance
Deep Green Resistance | Youtube channel
riseup.net overview
My interest now in rise up is as a replacement for google groups mailing lists. I’ve been on a riseup.net mailing list or two for years, and they seem to work just fine.
The leadership of riseup.net is entirely anonymous; and no, the leadership is not “generally known” as far as I understand. Still I think riseup.net has a good reputation in general, so personally I feel good recommending them in 2021.
https://riseup.net/en/about-us
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riseup
launched by activists in Seattle with borrowed equipment and a few users in 1999 or 2000, and quickly grew to millions of accounts
https://blog.torproject.org/tor-heart-riseupnet
Riseup.net was started back in 1999 after the WTO protests in Seattle. They provide online communication tools, including email, chat, file uploads and collaborative platforms for people and groups working on liberatory social change. Riseup is a project to create democratic alternatives and to practice self-determination through the control of secure means of communication.
501©3 non-profit focused on technological research, development, and education for the purpose of furthering social justice and supporting social movements.
https://riseup.net/en/security/resources
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/riseup-net
others comment on riseup.net
https://www.apc.org/en/member/riseup-networks
The group describes itself as committed to “human liberation” and “the fight for freedom and the self-determination of all oppressed groups” and as opposing “all forms of prejudice, authoritarianism, and vanguardism.” Riseup states: “Our purpose is to aid in the creation of a free society, a world with freedom from want and freedom of expression, a world without oppression or hierarchy, where power is shared equally. We do this by providing communication and computer resources to allies engaged in struggles against capitalism and other forms of oppression.”
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World War Two Was Not a Just War | what-about-the-good-war question
Collection of D Swanson articles on just war.
https://davidswanson.org/world-war-two-was-not-a-just-war/
Here are what I think of as the top 12 reasons the Good War wasn’t good/just.
World War II could not have happened without World War I, without the stupid manner of starting World War I and the even stupider manner of ending World War I which led numerous wise people to predict World War II on the spot, or without Wall Street’s funding of Nazi Germany for decades (as preferable to communists), or without the arms race and numerous bad decisions that do not need to be repeated in the future.
The U.S. government was not hit with a surprise attack. President Franklin Roosevelt had quietly promised Churchill that the United States would work hard to provoke Japan into staging an attack. FDR knew the attack was coming, and initially drafted a declaration of war against both Germany and Japan on the evening of Pearl Harbor. Prior to Pearl Harbor, FDR had built up bases in the U.S. and multiple oceans, traded weapons to the Brits for bases, started the draft, created a list of every Japanese American person in the country, provided planes, trainers, and pilots to China, imposed harsh sanctions on Japan, and advised the U.S. military that a war with Japan was beginning. He told his top advisers he expected an attack on December 1st, which was six days off. Here’s an entry in Secretary of War Henry Stimson’s diary following a November 25, 1941, White House meeting: “The President said the Japanese were notorious for making an attack without warning and stated that we might be attacked, say next Monday, for example.”
The war was not humanitarian and was not even marketed as such until after it was over. There was no poster asking you to help Uncle Sam save the Jews. A ship of Jewish refugees from Germany was chased away from Miami by the Coast Guard. The U.S. and other nations refused to accept Jewish refugees, and the majority of the U.S. public supported that position. Peace groups that questioned Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his foreign secretary about shipping Jews out of Germany to save them were told that, while Hitler might very well agree to the plan, it would be too much trouble and require too many ships. The U.S. engaged in no diplomatic or military effort to save the victims in the Nazi concentration camps. Anne Frank was denied a U.S. visa. Although this point has nothing to do with a serious historian’s case for WWII as a Just War, it is so central to U.S. mythology that I’ll include here a key passage from Nicholson Baker:
“Anthony Eden, Britain’s foreign secretary, who’d been tasked by Churchill with handling queries about refugees, dealt coldly with one of many important delegations, saying that any diplomatic effort to obtain the release of the Jews from Hitler was ‘fantastically impossible.’ On a trip to the United States, Eden candidly told Cordell Hull, the secretary of state, that the real difficulty with asking Hitler for the Jews was that ‘Hitler might well take us up on any such offer, and there simply are not enough ships and means of transportation in the world to handle them.’ Churchill agreed. ‘Even were we to obtain permission to withdraw all the Jews,’ he wrote in reply to one pleading letter, ‘transport alone presents a problem which will be difficult of solution.’ Not enough shipping and transport? Two years earlier, the British had evacuated nearly 340,000 men from the beaches of Dunkirk in just nine days. The U.S. Air Force had many thousands of new planes. During even a brief armistice, the Allies could have airlifted and transported refugees in very large numbers out of the German sphere.”[vii]
Perhaps it does go to the question of “Right Intention” that the “good” side of the war simply did not give a damn about what would become the central example of the badness of the “bad” side of the war.
The war was not defensive. FDR lied that he had a map of Nazi plans to carve up South America, that he had a Nazi plan to eliminate religion, that U.S. ships (covertly assisting British war planes) were innocently attacked by Nazis, that Germany was a threat to the United States.[viii] A case can be made that the U.S. needed to enter the war in Europe to defend other nations, which had entered to defend yet other nations, but a case could also be made that the U.S. escalated the targeting of civilians, extended the war, and inflicted more damage than might have occurred, had the U.S. done nothing, attempted diplomacy, or invested in nonviolence. To claim that a Nazi empire could have grown to someday include an occupation of the United States is wildly far fetched and not borne out by any earlier or later examples from other wars.
We now know much more widely and with much more data that nonviolent resistance to occupation and injustice is more likely to succeed—and that success more likely to last—than violent resistance. With this knowledge, we can look back at the stunning successes of nonviolent actions against the Nazis that were not well organized or built on beyond their initial successes.[ix]
The Good War was not good for the troops. Lacking intense modern training and psychological conditioning to prepare soldiers to engage in the unnatural act of murder, some 80 percent of U.S. and other troops in World War II did not fire their weapons at “the enemy.”[x] The fact that veterans of WWII were treated better after the war than other soldiers before or since, was the result of the pressure created by the Bonus Army after the previous war. That veterans were given free college, healthcare, and pensions was not due to the merits of the war or in some way a result of the war. Without the war, everyone could have been given free college for many years. If we provided free college to everyone today, it would then require much more than Hollywoodized World War II stories to get many people into military recruiting stations.
Several times the number of people killed in German camps were killed outside of them in the war. The majority of those people were civilians. The scale of the killing, wounding, and destroying made WWII the single worst thing humanity has ever done to itself in a short space of time. We imagine the allies were somehow “opposed” to the far lesser killing in the camps. But that can’t justify the cure that was worse than the disease.
Escalating the war to include the all-out destruction of civilians and cities, culminating in the completely indefensible nuking of cities took WWII out of the realm of defensible projects for many who had defended its initiation—and rightly so. Demanding unconditional surrender and seeking to maximize death and suffering did immense damage and left a grim and foreboding legacy.
Killing huge numbers of people is supposedly defensible for the “good” side in a war, but not for the “bad” side. The distinction between the two is never as stark as fantasized. The United States had a long history as an apartheid state. U.S. traditions of oppressing African Americans, practicing genocide against Native Americans, and now interning Japanese Americans also gave rise to specific programs that inspired Germany’s Nazis—these included camps for Native Americans, and programs of eugenics and human experimentation that existed before, during, and after the war. One of these programs included giving syphilis to people in Guatemala at the same time the Nuremberg trials were taking place.[xi] The U.S. military hired hundreds of top Nazis at the end of the war; they fit right in.[xii] The U.S. aimed for a wider world empire, before the war, during it, and ever since. German neo-Nazis today, forbidden to wave the Nazi flag, sometimes wave the flag of the Confederate States of America instead.
The “good” side of the “good war,” the party that did most of the killing and dying for the winning side, was the communist Soviet Union. That doesn’t make the war a triumph for communism, but it does tarnish Washington’s and Hollywood’s tales of triumph for “democracy.”[xiii]
World War II still hasn’t ended. Ordinary people in the United States didn’t have their incomes taxed until World War II and that’s never stopped. It was supposed to be temporary.[xiv] WWII-era bases built around the world have never closed. U.S. troops have never left Germany or Japan.[xv] There are more than 100,000 U.S. and British bombs still in the ground in Germany, still killing.[xvi]
Going back 75 years to a nuclear-free, colonial world of completely different structures, laws, and habits to justify what has been the greatest expense of the United States in each of the years since is a bizarre feat of self-deception that isn’t attempted in the justification of any lesser enterprise. Assume I’ve got numbers 1 through 11 totally wrong, and you’ve still got to explain how an event from the early 1940s justifies dumping a trillion 2017 dollars into war funding that could have been spent to feed, clothe, cure, and shelter millions of people, and to environmentally protect the earth.
“war is a lie”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/war-is-a-lie/5325713
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/war-lie/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3spLydTvTsg
others on WWII as “Good War”
https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/05/15/the-lies-about-world-war-ii/
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H20 Ballot Challenge Hearing Thu Aug 20
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Bostelmann, Glancey, Jacobs, Knudson, Spindell, Thomsen
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Meagan Wolfe, Nathan Judnic, Robert A. Williams
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Date: Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 9:09 PM
Subject: Commission Meeting - August 20, 2020 - Appearance Information, Information Posted
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Cc: Wolfe, Meagan - ELECTIONS <[3]Meagan.Wolfe@wisconsin.gov>, Rydecki, Richard H -
ELECTIONS <[4]Richard.Rydecki@wisconsin.gov>, Magney, Reid - ELECTIONS
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Below please find details regarding the Commission’s August 20, 2020 meeting to hear and decide ballot access challenges against candidates seeking access to the ballot for President – Vice President as an independent. The Commission’s meeting, starting at 3:oo p.m. is the hearing held pursuant to Wis. Admin. Code EL s. 2.07(2)(b), after […]
The matters will be called and heard in order of the Case Number assigned:
- EL 20-30 Santeler v. West
- EL 20-31 Brent, et al. v. West, et al.
- EL 20-32 Arntsen v. Hawkins, et al.
Main video of hearing | 2+ hours: https://youtu.be/-odTAalQ9gE?t=14
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9 10 11 12 13 14 15Aug 20 hearing mtg agenda / materials| pdf
https://elections.wi.gov/candidates/nomination-papers
https://elections.wi.gov/publications/video/NomPaperReviewGuidance
Nomination Paper Review Standards: https://elections.wi.gov/node/6737
The “will of the electors” language in Wis. Stat. § 5.01(1) does not apply to the review of nomination papers and election petitions. Commission staff will not consider the “will of the electors” in evaluating nomination papers and election petitions and the Commission will not take it into account when ruling on challenges or appeals of decisions issued by local filing officers related to nomination papers and other election petitions.
written statement of fact voluntarily made by an affiant or deponent under an oath or affirmation which is administered by a person who is authorized to do so by law. Such a statement is witnessed as to the authenticity of the affiant’s signature by a taker of oaths, such as a notary public or commissioner of oaths. An affidavit is a type of verified statement or showing, or in other words, it contains a verification, which means that it is made under oath or penalty of perjury, and this serves as evidence for its veracity and is required in court proceedings.
Jacobs’ arguments seem vulnerable, and repetitive. This administrative hearing seems as Sidell suggests 00:53:34 to have been treated more like a court trial.
video timestamps | H20 Aug 20 nom paper challenge hearing
1st/main video
00:01:05 Mandell GP should have to forfeit since it prepared no written reply between 6pm Fri Aug 7 and 12:00am Wed Aug 11 (end date right?)
00:04:22 No new factual information will be allowed to be added to record by Green Party at this hearing since they submitted nothing in writing in advance.
00:04:52 no factual assertions not in the record before us allowed
00:04:56 OK for Green Party to “argue the law”.
00:05:33 Green Party forfeited right to deny any assertions by the challenger.
00:06:18 “…that’s the only fair way to do it”
00:07:17 Mérida – calendar days vs business days. Received notice of challenge at 7:37pm Milwaukee time Fri Aug 7 via email.
00:08:33 If time limit is less than 10 days then weekend days are included, not skipped.
00:08:49 Mérida: Deadline should have run out on Tuesday Aug 11…
00:09:44 Mérida: We were told we could not file anything on Tuesday.
00:09:57 Mandell’s 10 minutes.
00:17:26 Mérida responds.
00:21:55 Mandell responds.
00:23:05 will of electors argument
00:23:29 paragraph 1 on page 29 of Feb 29 2020 WEC meeting materials concerning the motion covering “will of electors”
00:23:32 Sec 5.01 subdiv 1 does not apply to the review of nomination papers and election petitions; “will of electors” not a factor
00:24:20 start of questions for Mérida or Mandell
00:24:25 Question from Spindell to staff person Megan Wolfe
00:25:00 Wolfe: I believe we included all the relevant emails between the Green Party and us as part of the staff memo
00:25:16 Judnic on emails
00:25:18 Mr Williams (election specialist Robert Williams?) not aware of conversation w/Mérida
00:27:00 Spindell speculates Walker moved Jul 30 or 31
00:27:30 Jacobs: move date – that information is not before this commission
00:28:30 Spindell: nom papers… very carefully done…checked out ( by Green Party )
00:29:20 facts should have been … by filing a verified response
00:29:51 Democratic part of WI
00:30:54 Arnsten does not work for Democratic party … is a retied lawyer at Foley…
00:31:24 Mereida not allowed to answer Spindell re cur addr
00:32:04 Knudson asks Judnic about time period for affidavits on nom paper (header) corrections
00:32:33 Judnic re correcting headers – an affidavit may be done by circulator or signer
00:33:16 not later than 3 calendar days after Aug 4 due 430pm date
00:34:12 Judnic: complaint received on Fri Aug 7 just before 430pm
00:34:24 confirmation… had been received
00:34:50 emailed Green Party (Mérida) within an hour or two of receiving the complaint
00:35:33 explains deadline…how to respond…instructions
00:35:54 Monday at 430pm was deadline to respond
00:36:08 phone call Monday afternoon with Dave S
00:36:24 Mérida and Judnic phone call – asked about response options
00:36:39 most candidates (do)… not going to give legal advice
00:37:24 Knudson: 2 of 3 days were weekend days
00:37:50 IMPORTANT: failure to file is all but fatal (38:40)
00:38:19 Mérida: this was presented as an option
00:39:06 Mérida: emails on record from staff are not complete
00:39:38 Mandell: Democratic party of WI has nothing to do with the complaint
00:39:38 Mandell: I wrote the complaint ( for Arnsten )
00:39:50 Mérida: chg of address…cand addr not necessary for Fed cand…
00:40:10 Mérida: have to operate in way …instructed
00:40:18 Mérida: reason addr is on a nom paper
00:41:00 Mérida: splitting of hairs
00:41:27 ??? Mérida: candidates table was submitted [ I think she said “table”. ]
00:41:44 to try to curtail democratic voice of citizens
00:42:19 Clancy: what is procedure for a candidate chg of residence during signing period
00:42:54 Judnic answers
00:43:40 Judnic: if a person would move…
00:43:47 Judnic: example in June 2020
00:44:30 Judnic: IMPORTANT/Judic: the main issue…we had no idea…accuracy of the address on the header unknowable
00:45:20 Judnic: no statement in the record as to what happened … had there been an affidavit about the move
00:45:50 Mérida/IMPORTANT: we did as instructed…filed declaration of candidacy w/new addr ( doc shown on screen earlier/when? )
00:46:59 TODO/FIXME
00:47:15 IMPORTANT - deadline for declaration of candidacy was Tue Aug 4 430pm
00:47:33 IMPORTANT - Knudson: no evidence the challenged 1800+ sigs have an incorrect header addr for Walker
00:48:47 nom papers on same date with conflicting addresses for Walker
00:49:20 Judnic: the challenge is…only one declaration of candidacy (that one had) no indication that it was an amendment
00:49:30 Jacobs: a single affidavit announcing the move would have solved…
00:49:40 Jacobs: inexplicably
00:49:44 REVIEW - Jacobs: we have a sworn statement … swears (00:49:58)
00:50:05 Jacobs: solvable by an affidavit … so you are assuming first addr was valid (50:15)
00:50:28 Jacobs: we have no idea what … her addr..
00:50:44 Knudson: clearly…issue with her moving (per staff)
00:51:13 Knudson: no evidence that 1864 sigs… that there was any problem …
00:51:56 Jacobs: we don’t know if that was her address … inexplicably
00:52:20 Jacobs: given an affidavit-stated move date…challenger could break the 1864 sigs into valid and invalid sets
00:52:53 Jacobs: we do not know what addr she was at in the beginning
00:52:55 Jacobs: swore her addr was… under oath
00:53:34 Spindell: not a court hearing…this is an administrative hearing
00:53:56 Knudson: I figured the party felt they did not need to respond (in writing) since everything was so obvious
00:53:18 Jacobs: they overlap… a big mish maash
00:53:34 Spindell: not a court hearing…
00:54:00 Spindell: I went through every single page (of the nom papers)
00:55:26 Mérida: madam chair may – (Jacobs: no you may not)
00:55:40 Spindell: this is not a court trial, right?… it is an administrative hearing
00:56:34 Jacobs: overlapping signatures…even in an administrative hearing …
00:56:52 Spindell: given your are right…let’s hear it anyway…would like to hear what the facts are
00:57:10 Spindell: tiny technicality
00:57:26 Jacobs: pls leave your…concerns of racism…
00:57:36 Jacobs: pls sir keep that at the (door?)
00:57:52 Jacobs: I am not going to solicit testimony of hearsay
00:58:00 Jacobs: elected not to follow the very clear rules of this commission… we have a manual that says what they need to do
00:59:17 Judnic: …turned out differently had we had a (written/verified) response…would have weighed both sides
00:59:45 Judnic: (Mandell) showed there were issues with the address
00:59:52 …clear and convincing evidence
01:00:13 papers dated Jul 28 or Jul 29 such that on any one of these dates some papers had the TV address and some the Royal address
01:00:31 IMPORTANT: was the original TV address correct in the first place?
01:00:39 burden shifting…raised enough
01:00:09 Thomsen: 2016 recount
01:01:29 inference w/o affidavit
01:01:39 our decision cost Sullivan a spot on the ballot ( County Exec/earlier in 2020? )
01:01:50 missing a key piece
01:02:23 address correct at start…correct at end… do not know move date
01:03:52 a sworn statement that her addr is the second addr
01:04:04 we have no idea if the other addr is true…could have been typo…that everyone signed for weeks
01:04:38 Jacobs: oh no no no no sorry about that
01:05:07 have seen a lot of the Green Party lawyers…
01:05:11 not an unsophisticated
01:05:40 Mérida: what presumptions are you making
01:05:57 typo then…why would they only corrected some of them
01:06:22 Jacobs: it’s just not before us, we just don’t know
01:06:35 Jacobs: Mérida your time to present has passed
01:06:40 Spindell: …tell the press when she moved
01:07:54 (/shouting!/ Jacobs could have said sooner that Thomsen dropped out of zoom)
01:10:33 (Thomsen back on zoom)
01:12:00 tell press date of move and confirm 1st date
01:12:47 Glancey: incredibility incredibility interesting
01:14:16 Thomsen: this is for the president of the United States…not our job to follow up (to the campaign)…you should get it right
01:14:38 Thomsen: follow staff recommendation
01:15:03 we kept someone from running for county exec, we have to be consistent
01:15:19 I move the staff’s recommendations
01:16:07 IMPORTANT - Knudson: I fear we’ll be overturned on this one
01:16:45 Knudson: file a complaint (to WEC)… might go to court
01:16:45 Knudson: file a complaint (to WEC)… might go to court
01:17:08 shocked…if you miss a deadline..though…oral argument
01:17:40 you as chair have ruled in a pretty heavy handed manner… no facts…to be introduced
01:17:51 …the vote to over rule you (to over rule Madam chair Jacobs)
01:18:01 presumption of validity regardless of the lack of a written response…filed a lot of sigs
01:18:19 hate for us to get overturned
01:18:26 putting heads in sand for what the facts of the case are
01:18:41 distinct impression they though it was an “either or” (as to written or oral)
01:19:17 she started at that addr when the circulation started
01:20:22 vote on motion 2 & 3 passes 6:0
01:21:08 move on motion 1 based on lack of facts and recommendation by staff (Bostelmann, Knudson, Spindell): no. (Glancey, Jacobs, Thomsen): yes.
01:23:34 Spindell: very very well done documents…all the info was filled in…100 times better than last… very carefully done… no question that have at least 300 valid sigs
01:24:18 3737 valid sigs
01:24:37 3737 - 57 = 3680 valid sigs
01:26:10 motion to allow intro into evidence of the date of move…
01:26:38 Jacobs responds to date of move motion
01:26:40 challenger…no notice of this brand new fact…only hearsay
01:27:03 obligation to file verified response was on the candidate
01:27:21 not fair to sandbag the challengers
01:27:45 2016…never allowed introduction of ancillary evidence ( in nom paper hearings )… always required verified response
01:28:01 concerned…suddenly change..we never have before…it’s unfair, unduly prejudicial
01:30:47 answer…extremely obvious
01:31:58 could have filed supplemental sigs ( > 4000 )
01:32:31 we have no proof (of “TV Road” addr validity)
01:33:04 Mérida: this is your process
01:33:44 we just won’t look at them ( supp. sigs ) …unless…ruling in 2016
01:35:28 Thomsen: very sophisticated campaign …asking us to do their job…hearsay…affidavit
01:37:10 only person that can swear to residence…
01:38:40 Knudson: (could we) have A. Walker zoom in and testify date of move
01:38:49 Jacobs: no…
01:39:38 was info from complainant sufficient to… was their clear and convincing evidence to shift the burden (towards doubting the TV address)…staff provided info
01:40:27 …then the burden at that point is not shifted ( favorable to H20 )
01:40:35 no response…but burden did not shift…but she did not have to respond ( H20 campaign has no burden )
01:40:44 make a finding as to whether there is clear and convincing evidence that she did not live at TV Road
01:41:04 Jacobs: appreciate that…doubt it will break deadlock
01:41:20 still a motion on the floor to admit evidence from Merida
01:41:46 don’t find clear and convincing evidence for motion #1
01:41:57 just one piece of factual info…I’d flip all of you, that are currently saying based on just purely procedural things that…They have the presumption of validity.. there’s more than enough sigs
01:42:24 withdraw my motion…we could have a motion finding there is not clear and convincing evidence to doubt the TV road addr on the nom papers for the 1834 sigs
01:42:48 violates everything we’ve ever done in every single previous hearing we’ve ever had on nom papers
01:42:56 To make a special exception…for a party that decided not to follow the rules…prejudices the challenger…we told the challenger same thing in prior hearing
01:43:40 challenge, response, verify
01:43:56 framing question incorrectly
01:44:17 is there clear and convincing evidence that the TV addr conflicts w/the candidate disclosure filing’s address? If yes burden shifts.
01:44:32 never mentioned any move
01:44:34 not challengers burden to prove a move tool place
01:44:42 Thomsen: They gotta do it right. They did not do it right.
01:44:53 Mérida: …your statute does not specify either way…does not call for an affidavit… it’s silent on what happens if a candidate moves
01:45:25 your staff did not ask for an affidavit
01:45:00 Merida
01:45:52 multiple moves acceptable as long paper header adjusted in sync,… finally file the declaration of candidacy at end
01:46:41 does not invalidate sigs for the [clean pile of papers w/TV Road]…address
01:46:43 talking about a clean set of papers with a clear address…only question is the move date
01:47:14 Don’t have to file the declaration of candidacy before circulating papers
01:47:55 Don’t have to file the declaration of candidacy until campaign spends money. Would not have to file during nom paper circulation until after papers submitted (and challenge deadline expired?).
01:48:34 w/o the challenge, staff would have accepted…
01:48:34 IMP: The candidate did file disclosure and swore to live “somewhere else” then shown on initial nom papers. … challenger claims burden was shifted since the address at time of sworn candidate disclosure differs from initial nom papers header address …implies initial no papers are …
01:49:02 They shifted burden to themselves to prove they actually lived at the first address ( with an affidavit for ex )
01:49:38 …burden did not shift
01:49:47 no obligation to disclose the first address…only that it be accurate at time of circulation
01:50:09 know that she sworn she lived “somewhere else”
01:50:19 sworn she lived “somewhere else” is enough to justify the challenge
01:50:42 all she had to do was swear under oath she lived at the first address and then moved
01:50:52 long standing presumption of validity… we have to presume (1st addr) is accurate…in fact burden shift has not happened
01:51:18 with a little investigation we would find out
01:51:33 not on us to do
01:51:43 IMP:Jacobs implies the declaration of candidacy does have to be filed during circulation?!
01:51:53 (broken record.. for 3rd or 4th time) worn I live “somewhere else”…that’s enough to shift the burden
01:52:15 Jacobs speculates on other sworn statements challenger may have used: affidavit, small claims, divorce deposition
01:52:43 our declaration of candidacy form does not ask for addr history…only what is current addr. This sworn document does not invalidate the TV addr nom papers
01:53:22 Jacobs: but she did not swear she lived st the TV addr … that’s what I’m saying
01:53:37 If she filed something saying she lived at the TV addr and moved … but she didn’t for some reason, I don’t know what reason …
01:53:52 Thomsen: voted w/staff recommendation… We’re being consistent w/our Feb 2020 ruling which kept Sullivan off the ballot… don’t see this any differently…their burden… not ours…let’s vote…some court will decide
01:54:39 Glancey: Presumption of validity shifted by challenger…declaration of candidacyis key…Yes challenger shows initial address conflicts… Improper/beyond our scope for us to guess/extrapolate on mismatch…Missed their chance to file written statement on TV addr.
01:56:33 burden of suspicion that nom papers may be invalid
01:56:58 Knudson motion on table asking for allowing new evidence for date of move
01:57:32 vote on above motion fails 3:3
01:58:52??? New Knudson motion: 1789 Royal st sigs certified ok; 1834 TV addr sigs deadlocked due to lack of evidence confirming TV road addr
01:59:54 Are we going to put them on the ballot?
02:00:09 Under Dean’s motion, by rule of law they would not be on ballot, but would have right to immediately appeal
02:00:30 Right to appeal without this motion. So obvious we all know what is correct, what is right on this.
02:01:25 For the 1834 is staff recommendation or Dean correct?
02:01:44 Sullivan case
02:02:06 I believe there are ~3680 valid sigs
02:02:52 no clear and convincing evidence that there are problems with the 1834 sigs / no proof they are invalid
02:03:22 I don’t think the burden was shifted by the challenge
02:03:29 suspect they will win in court
02:03:33 trying to narrow issue, to leave record for future litigation
02:05:04 Knudson: in my motion I indicate we deadlocked on the 1835 due to lack of evidence… for example date of move unknown
02:04:00 leave candidate in stronger position to appeal…imp we certify/validate the Royal St 1789 sigs
02:04:38 Jacobs re-reads motion to certify 1789 sigs; no finding / deadlocked on 1834 (TV road) sigs based on lack of evidence of where the candidate lived
02:06:22 were not invalidating anything, we’re deadlocked on whether there is clear and convincing evidence they’re invalid
02:07:53 Jacobs tries to restate the motion
02:08:46 What I heard from secy “Read” about my motion was correct
02:09:02 There are 1834 sigs w/TV Road addr. Were deadlocked on whether or not those sigs are invalid.
02:10:07 apparent to all of us that she moved during circulation…we don’t know when…, so can not determine
02:10:24 no clear and convincing evidence that she moved
02:10:38 IMP: staff has evidence she moved – emails back and forth about the move…
02:11:05 Jacobs: asks secy to pls read the motion again
02:11:58 secy “Read”: He recites the motion out loud
02:12:11 move to vote
02:12:14 based on insufficient evidence…
02:12:50 motion passes 6:0
Final vote| ~10 min last video | timestamps
00:00:09 gotta give them something to appeal
00:01:09 (proposed language) WEC finds H20 should not be placed on ballot
00:02:10 by operation of law they are denied ballot access
00:03:08 you need 4 votes to get on ballot
00:03:52 Judnik: WEC should have motion to grant or deny ballot access …statutory obligation
00:05:30 no rules now about challenge…
00:06:26 yours was a procedural opposition, opposed on the process… they missed the deadline… so can not clarify record… but pages 34-36 none of that applies
00:06:44 that’s not true… I can not presume they’re valid when staff recommendation…
00:07:00 Sullivan didn’t even know about it. The candidate here knew
00:07:24 call the question, the motion was: based on … H20 denied ballot access
00:08:00 motion fails 3:3
00:08:06 Knudson makes new motion that WEC finds H20 have filed sufficient no sigs and should be certified/approved for ballot access as indep candidates
00:08:47 Mandell objects
00:09:10 motion fails 3:3
Voted yes 6:0 that 1789 valid signatures were filed with the 315 Royal St address for Angela Walker, and deadlocked 3:3: on the 1834 signatures on nom forms with the earlier TV Road address.
writing tips | writing best practices
http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/how-to-write-in-plain-english.html
CLI vs GUI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24268533
Dimitri Lascaris intro
https://dimitrilascaris.org/about/
https://www.teamdimitri.ca/the_team
https://twitter.com/dimitrilascaris
by or about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Green_Party_of_Canada_leadership_election
https://therealnews.com/bios/dimitri-lascaris
2015 “on the street” reporting example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69m-9RkuKzs
Hamilton coalition to stop the war | overview
https://hamiltoncoalitiontostopthewar.ca/
https://www.facebook.com/hamiltoncoalitiontostopthewar/notes/
by or about
https://www.globalresearch.ca/author/hamilton-coalition-to-stop-the-war
https://www.change.org/o/hamilton_coalition_to_stop_the_war
The Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War began life as the November 16th Coalition, which formed in Hamilton to organize opposition to the then impending attack on Iraq in 2003.
Ken Stone
https://www.syriasolidaritymovement.org/about/steering-committee/
Ken Stone is a veteran anti-war, anti-racist, social justice, and environmental activist in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is the Treasurer of the Hamilton Coalition To Stop The War, a Steering Committee member of the Canadian Peace Alliance, and a former Central Committee member of the Global March to Jerusalem. He has written a number of letters and articles on the Syrian crisis for the Hamilton Spectator and Global Research and appeared numerous times on Press TV.
Stone speaks out on assassination of Gen. Soleimani: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-odTAalQ9gE&feature=youtu.be&t=5978
Kenosha Solidarity Rally/BLM march | NAARPR, FRSO, CPAC … | Fri Aug 28 2020
In response to an email about the NAARPR sponsored rally – said email was forwarded to the Milwaukee End the Wars Coalition list – I decided to go to the Kenosha Solidarity Rally/BLM march at 5pm near at the Municipal blg.
As Chapman says:
escalation is getting masses of people out into these streets… this is no time to slow the rebellion down
videos
a report:
Automated cell phone pop up alert at 630pm warning us of 7pm Kenosha curfew.
Powerful chanting – on mic and off, good energy, clearly a mix of locals, Milwaukee people, and Chicago people, including Frank Chapman. FRSO banner there, Chapman’s CPAC people there, also NAARPR. Perhaps 130 people?
The (national guard?) pulled up in 3-4 hum-vees/troop carriers at the end of march just before 7pm. One tall thin older white guy positioned himself in from of the convoy – the demonstration organizers artfully defused the situation. These were canvass covered troop carriers with perhaps 4-6 troops per truck – men visible through the open to air back ends. I went home, honoring the impending curfew – the bulk of the crowd seemed to be staying and gathering again in front of the Municipal blg again.
Many boarded up windows at gas stations, small biz, and major gov blgs. A couple of burned up blgs. Some artful graffiti on the particle board. We had passed a used car lot filled with entirely burned up cars!
My hunch or impression is that Kenosha is damaged and vulnerable. The protestors quieted down as we past the burned out used car lot – sobering. I left there inspired by the effort, unity and young spirit.
As Chapman says:
escalation is getting masses of people out into these streets… this is no time to slow the rebellion down
Photos: troop carrier in Kenosha
publishing your own book
Nils Melzer intro
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/law/staff/nilsmelzer/
[@NilsMelzer](https://nitter.net/NilsMelzer)
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture; Human Rights Chair, Geneva Academy; Professor of International Law, University of Glasgow; Vice-President IIHL, Sanremo
https://www.ohchr.org/en/issues/torture/srtorture/pages/nilsmelzer.aspx
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Nils_Melzer
In 20 years of work with victims of war, violence and political persecution I have never seen a group of democratic States ganging up to deliberately isolate, demonise and abuse a single individual for such a long time and with so little regard for human dignity and the rule of law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Melzer
Work by or about Nils Melzer
familiarity: since Mon 12 Oct 2020
org code of conduct survey
Very good
https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/0/code_of_conduct/
contrarian
https://github.com/domgetter/NCoC
debates about coc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24926214
unix philosophy
It took me a long time, to stop “overengineering”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy
A bit extreme, on the minimalist side, but fun https://suckless.org/philosophy.
another take on simple code
http://www.ultratechnology.com/1xforth.htm
How do you get there? What is the magic? How can you make applications small? Well you can do several things that are prudent to do in any case and in any language.
No Hooks
One is No Hooks. Don’t leave openings in which you are going to insert code at some future date when the problem changes because inevitably the problem will change in a way that you didn’t anticipate. Whatever the cost it’s wasted. Don’t anticipate, solve the problem you’ve got.
Don’t Complexify
Simplify the problem you’ve got or rather don’t complexify it. I’ve done it myself, it’s fun to do. You have a boring problem and hiding behind it is a much more interesting problem. So you code the more interesting problem and the one you’ve got is a subset of it and it falls out trivial. But of course you wrote ten times as much code as you needed to solve the problem that you actually had.
Ten times code means ten times cost; the cost of writing it, the cost of documenting it, it the cost of storing it in memory, the cost of storing it on disk, the cost of compiling it, the cost of loading it, everything you do will be ten times as expensive as it needed to be. Actually worse than that because complexity increases exponentially.
[…]
Now that’s the general solution to a problem that all the programmers in the world are out there inventing for you, the general solution, and nobody has the general problem.
https://lobste.rs/s/4piifs/1x_forth_by_charles_moore_4_13_99
problems w/GUIs
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/anti-mac-interface/
Telegram intro/overview/setup
These links are contiguous. Scroll through content from one link/section the next.
Telegram install/setup
Avoid the apple or android version of the Telegram app – instead download the app from https://telegram.org/.
Like signal, Telegram has a phone app focus. The desktop app is mature/useful but lacks some features in the phone app. Telegram keys off your phone number, but supports a unique username say “foobar” ( i.e @foobar; which gives you a chat URL of https://t.me/foobar) that you may define, and change – so that some may only know you by this username.
Telegram gets it’s contacts from smart phone automatically. ( unless you disallow this ) It looks at your desktop google contacts since google supports syncing google contacts desktop with your phone google contacts app.
The phone app appears to be the most feature-full tool; I suggest everyone install it – you may have to as it helps you re-instantiate a desktop account on your Telegram client if you log out from one on all devices. If you log out of all devices your secret chats for that account may be lost, but otherwise no harm is done.
The phone app is called ‘Telegram’. You may install the Telegram app in “the usual way” your Android or Apple phone uses – this works, but might not be optimal. My theory as of Fri 17 Dec 2021 is that you should bypass your phone’s normal playstore or app store download the app directly from https://telegram.org/ – otherwise upgrading telegram is more involved.
if you do not want another phone app | deleting Telegram app from your phone
Once you get the desktop version of Telegram installed you can delete it from your phone. By default you will keep a session running on your laptop or desktop across computer shutdowns, as far as I know – if you deliberately log out of your desktop Telegram though, then you need to reinstall the Telegram app on a phone again so you can re-add the acct to the PC/desktop/laptop Telegraph client. There are a few features only available on the phone – importantly the setting to control notifications, so get notifications adjusted as you want before deleting Telegram from your phone. You can log into up to 3 Telegram accts at same time – you switch among them, have only one active at a time.
Desktop install
The windows installer is “old school”, windows XP style with a download step followed by running ‘setup.exe’ which is probably in a folder called Downloads/Telegram/.
If you have a google voice phone number you may use that for a new Telegram account. The most straightforward ( and possibly only way ) way to setup the google voice Telegram account is to “add account” using the phone app. Telegram will send you google voice number a text, so be sure you have google vice up to get the verify code. For any given Telegram client instance, you may be logged in to up to 3 Telegram accounts, so you may need to log out from one to add the new google voice account. You may as many instances of Telegram desktop clients at the same time; in this way you can have many more than 3 accounts active on your desktop.
I have not tested, Telegram account creation using a voip phone number – I think it works, like google voice.
Telegram day to day tips
username | @username | https://t.me/username | phone number | profile
“Once you’ve set up a username, you can give people a t.me/username link” I think that allows people to add you to their Telegram contacts.
If you create a username (https://t.me/TelegramTips/44), people can find (https://t.me/TelegramTips/248) your profile and get in contact with you – without needing to know your phone number.
Your phone number is hidden. By default, it is only visible to your contacts. In groups and chats, you will appear to people who don’t know you as your chosen name.
For your end-user Telegram accounnt, in my experience, your first name and last name as defined in your profile will be what Telegram users see. If they add you to their contacts they may enter a different first name/lastname; then they see that.
hogging RAM on your phone! | important setting | WARNING |Notification ANNOYANCES
Telegram is notorious for the automatic download of all content for each channel joined therefore switch off this function on your Telegram settings. This will stop spam accumulation in your phone.
As you join more and more groups or channels, you will probably be annoyed by too many Telegram notifications.
Notification settings are available on your phone – so turn them off there; they may not be available to the same depth on desktop Telegram clients.
sigils | @USERNAMEHERE | @BROADCASTCHANNELHERE | @PUBLICGROUP
@foo => (username or broadcast channelname or pub groupname) ‘foo’
Usernames, broadcast channel folders, and public group folders must be globally unique because the use the URL name spaces as in:
https://t.me/foo | where ‘foo’ is a username https://t.me/BROADCASTCHANNELHERE/ https://t.me/PUBLICGROUPNAMEHERE/
username, real name, profile, your phone number, contacts
< this needs vetting >
Your Telegram contacts will automatically populate from your google contacts – only those contacts that have Telegram accounts – there is a setting to stop this.
It appears that users will see what you use in your profile for your first and last name, unless they override that with their own values for their contacts record of you. I make a habit to add new people to my Telegram contacts.
I suggest you create a Telegram username. You can be found by username, and the username may survive you changing your phone number. I think it is possible to unshare your phone number, yet still be reachable by username.
Telegram OVERVIEW
As of 1/15/2021, per Telegram, 25 million new people joined in the last few days. Apparently due to whatsapp migration; and the ‘big tech’ censorship & shutdowns.
apache 2.0 LICENSE | founded by Nikolai Durov, Pavel Durov
The Telegram wikipedia page and a bit of searching indicate that that the code is licensed under (permissive) apache 2.0 . It seems to have a strong dependence on the London/Dubai based “Telegram Messenger LLP” company; founded by two Russian brothers on Aug 14, 2013. I think their may have been a fork or two of the code, but I did not see one that competes. I had been funneled towards signal instead of telegram a few years ago, per my web searches, but I’m excited about their public and private group chat rooms – these could compete w/discord. It appears Telegram is a flatter structure, more like IRC without the “system” community container that discord supports. The telegram reddit group suggested that e2e may not be the default – this is by design to support backup & recovery.
I first joined with the desktop Telegram application. I used a google voice phone number; Telegram texted a verfication number as part of the account setup. I have created a username (referred to for example as @johndoe ) which is globally unique, public, searchable, and an alternative to my phonenumber – you may chg it or delete it. You can then be reached at https://t.me/YOURUSERNAME.
A friend and I did some learning-tests – we made a ( telegram broadcast channel with the friendly name channel name “NOT THIS NAME”). When setting it up you separately define a top level URL folder name, as in https://t.me/NOTTHISNAME I set the channel name to “NOT THIS NAME” (notice spaces are allowed in channel name, but not in https://t.me/NOTTHISNAME – a top level URL-folder ( as are usernames); referred to as @NOTTHISNAME. Each channel post gets a URL based on the group name and integer/post-counter as in https://t.me/NOTTHISNAME/725.
In the search field find a channel by searching for @NOTTHISNAME or https://t.me/NOTTHISNAME or “NOT THIS NAME”.
To support public comments, broadcast channels, are usually are configured to refer to exactly one telegram group, a (private) group that accepts public comments from public channel subscribers. Subscribers are analogous to twitter followers.
A Telegram channel** supports: posts of 4,096 character text statements; and 2GB videos (or any file type). Telegram channels and groups have built in audio and video players; multi-day audio or video chat conferencing w/desktop sharing; public voicemail.
Posts to public channels and groups have unique permalink URLs. For example, post in a channel gets a URL based on the group name and integer/post-counter as in https://t.me/NOTTHISNAME/725.
Public groups are like broadcast channels, without subscribers, instead they have members – these can post new messages. Not sure (TODO), I think only members can reply to messages.
Groups and Channels have exactly one owner each; they support multiple admins with configurable permissions. There is a way to transfer ownership – requires 2 factor auth be enabled.
Telegram limits: https://limits.tginfo.me/en
LOCKIN? The entire contents of a broadcast channel may be exported out of Telegram to html or json. I do this periodically, as backup and to present the channel as html to those that do not install Telegram.
COMPARISON: of public/private channels/groups: https://respond.io/blog/telegram-groups
Telegram ANNOYANCES
NOISY NOTIFICATIONS.
Once you have joined a couple of dozen groups, notification sounds and popups will probably be too much.
On the phone app, select the hamburger menu > Settings > Notifications and Sounds. Here’s what I do: under notifications for chats I turn off both Groups and Channels. You may want to turn off notifications for ’pinned msgs”– I leave that on.
telegram DOWNLOAD BLOAT | stop!: fillng-up phone storage
telegram phone disk-storage DOWNLOAD BLOAT: The default settings, IMHO download too much data – cache, videos, jpegs etc. Fix this under: settings > data and storage > Disk and network storage > storage usage > keep media | e.g.: set this to “3 days” Also, keep an eye on this setting. Not sure how, but I think it reverted to the “forever” setting for me, so I set it again to “3 days”.
SPAM: Spammers discover your account and add you to their spammy groups.
ROBOTS/BOTS various group policies: Some groups have bots that parse your post immediately after you save it; then they may delete your post if the bot detects you violate their own custom rules. Some groups do not allow any HTML links! There are some restrictive settings that can be enabled by group admins, that may or may not be enabled.
Telegram folders | organizing your subscriptions
https://telegram.org/blog/folders
Folders become available in the interface when your chat list is long enough to start getting cluttered. Alternatively, you may use this link: tg://settings/folders in your app to enable Chat Folders.
I think tg://settings/folders is pseudo code for settings > folders; but 1 test on Wed 23 Mar 2022 suggests you may have to wait untill you join enough groups before they make the menu pick available.
“Personal Folder” is a must have: about the only way to know that someone direct messaged you after you were away from Telegram for a while. Go to settings> folders and click on the option to enable a “Personal Folder”. Keep an eye on the count of msgs there, and check that folder when the number bumps up.
The special built in “Saved” folder is valuable as a TLDR folder; or for posts you’re still vetting.
I also make a folder for the groups and channels I made; yet another folder for the tier 0/best groups and channels I’ve joined.
You may ‘pin’ up to 5 groups or channels to the upper left column timeline. Rightclick on the avatar and ‘pin’.
features for groups and channels | overview
There are a lot of features that groups and channels share.
feature chan group
per-post link y y?
members-list NA y/members can search/see names/avatars
new joiner chat hist hide/show y y
id the members/subscribers ? y ( usernames/names in group summary )
only admins in a channel can post a new msg; in a group any member may post a new msg
channel: Only the post creator can edit. All admins may delete any post.
If allowed, anyone may reply to a post. For a channel you setup a discussion group to support these; they are “comments”.
For both channels and groups you may post voice mail messages for everyone to hear – these appear as a small green audio player widget
post media files or any type of file up to 2GB AFAIK – videos, jpegs, pdfs, text files, spreadsheets …
group or chan summaries/timeline-lists: links; files; videos; voice msgs; photos; gifs This facility to summarize a group or channel is handy when evaluating a new group or for catching up on activity,
VIDEO CONFERENCING: in a group or channel, you may start audio/video/desktop-sharing group meetings
GROUP THREADS. It took me a while to be able to follow a post/reply thread. Take a look at the discussion threads in https://t.me/sucklesscode. Notice that replies,start with author name in 1st line, then starting in the 2nd line have a blue vertical bar in the left margin that spans the 2nd and 3rd line: 1st line in this “bar” is the parent author, 2nd line is a quote snip from the parent; this tells you who/what is being replied to. If you click on this blue bar you will be scrolled to the parent post and it will be highlighted/shaded-blue for about 2 seconds.
When I make general statements I may say groups when more accurately I should say groups or channels; hopefully you will be able to sense this by the context.
Telegram channels
Channels may be public https://t.me/GROUPNAMEHERE | or private. You join a private group via a special invite URL.
Each post in a channel gets a URL based on the group name and integer/post-counter as in https://t.me/NOTTHISNAME/725.
AFAIK, new posts in a channel are only done by administrators. The public may subscribe to a public group.
Channels allow comments from the public group subscribers per-post; provided that you make a Telegram discussion group and configure the channel to us it for discussion – typically a private telegram group, with only the channel owner as a member.
end to end encryption | only w/“secret chat” feature | only on phone app?
To support recovery and multiple devices, end to end encryption is disabled by default – encryption is there though just not at the Telegraph server itself, unless you override the default; I think this is usually done for 1:1 end to end encrypted “secret chats”. If you log out of all Telegram sessions for an account, your secret chats are deleted; so back them up if wanted or have at least 1 device always logged in.
The e2e issues on Telegram are complex by design. I think only the phone app supports true e2e 1:1 chats. Challenging details here: https://tsf.telegram.org/manuals/e2ee-simple.
All Telegram data is encrypted and cannot be deciphered by your ISP, network administrator, or random hackers. Cloud chats are stored encrypted in the Telegram Cloud, and the keys needed to decipher this data are kept in other data centers spread across different jurisdictions. This way, local intruders or engineers can’t access this data, and several court orders from different jurisdictions are required to force us to give up anything. More on this in the FAQ: https://telegram.org/faq#q-do-you-process-data-requests
Secret chats are meant for people who want even more than that. They use end-to-end encryption, so there is no way to decipher your data without accessing your device. It means you don‘t even need to trust Telegram when you use Secret Chats — their secrecy is guaranteed client-side and anyone can check the source code of Telegram clients.
If you are concerned about security in general, there are other important precautions you could take. Consider protecting your account by enabling 2-Step Verification and setting up a strong passcode to lock your app, then it won’t be possible to access your chats by stealing your device or even by intercepting your SMS code. You will find both options in ‘Settings’ under ‘Privacy and Security,’ ask me if you’d like more details.
Telegram Desktop | does not seem to support “secret chats” | Aug 2022
https://www.reddit.com/r/Telegram/comments/9beku1/telegram_desktop_secret_chat/
Even more e2ee detail: https://tsf.telegram.org/manuals/e2ee
See my Telegram install basics.
For committee or department collaboration, I lean towards Telegram’s private groups. We created a couple of private groups – members may be placed in by the group owner or they may be invited by a URL. There are 8 permissions that the group owner can set for the group itself or owner ( still learning/unsure about this ). We might also want a public group or two, if it can be moderated?
Example Telegram broadcast channels I found by searching:
discovering/searching for groups/channels | vetting groups | spam
It’s a harder than I expected to discover channels and groups to follow.
Appears they do not support a global search as well as I have come to expect. Telegram is constantly being upgraded, so maybe it’s better as you read this. I have resorted to browser duckduckgo web searches to discover channels or groups in Telegram. The more you join or subscribe the richer your “search space” becomes, and as you read group/channel content you will see references to interesting Telegram groups.
IMPORTANT: Each group or channel has a summary report that is a good way for you to vet it before you join or subscribe. Suggest you spend some time playing with the summary.
Telegram spam: you will be added w/o permission to spam groups and channels, unless you go to:
settings > advanced > privacy and security > groups and channels > << I set to “contacts”
You can also “report as spam” and leave the group though.
Telegram features:
- FAQ techi FAQ
- “Telegram’s primary focus is not to bring a profit, so commercial interests will never interfere with our mission.”
- twitter-like broadcast channels (web viewable to all/non Telegram users) ; multiple channel-members that may post there – each post has own web link
- 1:1 e2e, but only if you “Open the profile of the user you want to contact. Tap on ‘…’, then ‘Start Secret Chat’.”
https://telegram.org/faq#q-why-not-just-make-all-chats-39secret-39 Secret chats are not backed up at all by Telegram.
This allows Telegram to be widely adopted in broad circles, not just by activists and dissidents, so that the simple fact of using Telegram does not mark users as targets for heightened surveillance in certain countries.
https://telegra.ph/Why-Isnt-Telegram-End-to-End-Encrypted-by-Default-08-14
- If you type a msg, but do not press enter to sent a chat, your msg is saved as a draft – nice!
- Can pin a msg in chat group.
- You may post links in a group chat as a clickable URL or as a URL behind a clickable descriptive link.
- All links in a group are available in a list.
- Can mute any group(s). By mute ???
- Each of your chat-posts get a https link – for private groups, it resolves only for members. All chat posts are editable, deletable after posting.
- You can add polls to a group chat.
- Supports management of your multiple Telegram accounts
- “When you use a hashtag in a message, that word becomes searchable allowing you to see all the messages relating to that topic” https://telegram.org/blog/replies-mentions-hashtags
- Chat room history is configurable so that new joiners will either see past history or only post-join history.
- chat rooms (groups) support editing after posting
- private named chat rooms (private groups)
- public chat rooms (public groups)
- (permissive) apache 2.0 license
- phone app
- desktop app; w/desktop notifications
- optional usernames you may delete or chg – as alternate to the still-required phone number identifier
- e2e voice calls.
- 1:1 video calls
- It’s dependent on a London/Dubai tech firm founded by a couple of Russians – not great ( need to research that more ).
- Like signal it looks through your smart phone contacts and keys off of your phone number, informing you of others that are in ‘Telegram’.
- Broadcast channels (and groups?) get their own file storage are in the cloud, and the limits are liberal. I need to research this more.
- https://t.me/TelegramTips
- https://telegram.org/press
- you can save voice messages in a group – they provide a recorder
(bad and good) press on Telegram | Telegram security
http://thesaker.is/two-questions-about-it-issues/?inmoderation
https://mobile.twitter.com/Snowden/status/1350130193789296645
https://restoreprivacy.com/secure-encrypted-messaging-apps/telegram/
https://www.appsverse.com/blog/is-telegram-safe-depends-on-how-you-use-it-tw/
But it’s also true that Telegram isn’t anywhere as secure as Signal. Unlike Telegram, Signal conceals all metadata completely and does not require users to provide a mobile phone number.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25870133
I have some contacts that use Signal, and others Telegram, and so I end up using both apps on a day to day basis. Signal is secure by default yes, but their UX/UI is very lacking outside of “basic” communication, which ends up being the use case for me.
Messaging that’s media-heavy or involving stickers, GIFs, multi-accounts, links (Instant View is amazing), or file sharing is better achieved in Telegram, in my experience.
In some ways they both support different security postures, with Telegram being more flexible with opt-in E2E so the user can take advantage of the cloud features, while Signal foregoes these bells and whistles for a most-secure-by-default approach.
[…]
Telegram has plans to monetize metadata just like WhatsApp.
This is a blatant lie without any evidence. Durov said they might consider advertising in channels, as is currently already done in many languages – just not through Telegram directly.
[…]
There are groups in Telegram with more than a million of users. Actually, Telegram is now more like a very good aggregator of news. You can use it just for that purpose alone.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Telegram/comments/kvw8fy/lack_of_encryption_on_group_chats_has_me_in_the/
https://www.exponentialinvestor.com/technology/why-do-governments-hate-telegram/
https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/13/telegram-channels-banned-violent-threats-capitol/
https://www.rferl.org/a/telegram-messaging-app-russia-belarus-iran-content-concerns/31029359.html
In a year marked by tightened restrictions and unrest, Telegram sent a clear message to authoritarian governments who tried to keep it quiet in 2020. But as the app, which has earned a reputation as a free-speech platform, looks to spread the word in Iran and China, its popularity among messengers of violence and hate remains a concern.
https://sorendreier.com/they-are-coming-for-telegram/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_cross-platform_instant_messaging_clients
Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Coalition
The meeting last Friday
https://grassrootsep.org/about/
Harvey Wasserman has been active in civil rights, peace, ecological, safe energy, and election protection issues since 1962. In 1966 he met Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the Meredith voter rights march through Mississippi. A co-founder of the global grassroots No Nukes Movement, in 1979 he helped produce the legendary MUSE Concerts in Madison Square Garden. In 1994 he spoke for Greenpeace USA, where he remains a Voting Member, to 350,000 semi-conscious music fans at Woodstock2. A radio host, journalist and historian, he’s co/written some 20 books, including seven on election protection with Robert Fitrakis.
upcoming zoom calls | weekly or more
sample of previous election protection mtgs
I get these via an RSS feed from PRN – email me and I will try to figure out which one it is in this list.
Howie Hawkins (sometimes or usually?) attends these.
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/z73nbj/Harvey_021121.mp3
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/d264r6/Harvey_020421.mp3
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/4qwya3/Harvey_011421.mp3
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/c2jzvs/Harvey_122920.mp3
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/pzrg52/Harvey_122420.mp3
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/mdniju/Harvey_121720.mp3
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/dmt77q/Harvey_120320.mp3
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/i9hy4r/Harvey_111920.mp3
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/nitrgk/Harvey_111220.mp3
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/3ca7e2/Harvey_110520.mp3
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/byuyup/Harvey_102920.mp3
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/g9tg2r/Harvey_102220.mp3
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/nijn7t/Harvey_100820.mp3
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/9avazd/Harvey_100120.mp3
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/xfi48k/Harvey_091720.mp3
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/h7z7fv/Harvey_091020.mp3
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/id48iw/Harvey_090320.mp3
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/62fxpa/Harvey_082020.mp3
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/wrdzfr/Harvey_081320.mp3
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/arqbr6/Harvey_080620.mp3
Inspiring: anti war “activists blocked rail line” in Canada | Rachel Small
Rachel Small interviewed by David Swanson Re truck blockade00:05:59 | http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/977750860-davidcnswanson-talk-nation-radio-rachel-small-blocking-trucks-to-move-canada-from-war-to-peace.mp3
OK, so no trains came that day; the story and it’s photo got my attention though! For reference, these train block protests can be dangerous – consider Brian Willson | m4a audio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Willson
Short Rachel Small youtube interview: https://worldbeyondwar.org/protesters-block-london-ontario-rail-line/
Activists Block Rail Line Near General Dynamics Over Arms Sales
By Bryan Bicknell, London CTV News.
March 27, 2021[…]
Above photo: Activists protesting the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia block a railway line near General Dynamics Land Systems in London, Ont. on Friday, March 26, 2021. Bryan Bicknell / CTV News.
London, Ontario – A small group of activists blocked a rail line in east London Friday, demanding the federal government cancel a contract to provide military vehicles to Saudi Arabia.
About 15 people from various anti-war groups demonstrated on the railroad tracks at Clarke Road and Oxford Street East in London, just west of the General Dynamics Land Systems plant, which manufactures light armoured vehicles (LAVs).
The protest was meant to stop any shipments of military vehicles bound for the middle eastern kingdom. No trains came through during the protest.
“Canada is a major player in continuing the devastating war on Yemen,” said Rachel Small, spokesperson for the group World BEYOND War.
She added that the protestors are calling on the federal government to end all arms exports to Saudi Arabia.
“We’re sending billions of dollars in weapons to Saudi Arabia to use in this Saudi-led war. It’s been completely devastating. I know for me I cannot stand by knowing that tanks are rolling on the rail right by me on their way to Saudi Arabia.”
However, the federal government has said it has no evidence the LAVs have been used in the conflict.
Thursday marked the sixth anniversary of the civil war in Yemen.
Blockade Canada General Dynamics Weapons Sales
SARS-CoV-2 virus isolation
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/grows-virus-cell-culture.html
One important way that CDC has supported global efforts to study and learn about SARS-CoV-2 in the laboratory was by growing the virus in cell culture and ensuring that it was widely available. Researchers in the scientific and medical community can use virus obtained from this work in their studies.
Working at a secure containment facility at the University of Toronto and using samples taken recently from two patients in Canada, the team was able this week to confirm it had isolated and propagated the virus, creating a source of COVID-19 for study as the world races to develop vaccines and treatments, and to build a better understanding of how the virus behaves.
https://sunnybrook.ca/research/media/item.asp?c=2&i=2069&f=covid-19-isolated-2020
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/6/20-0516_article
Cell Culture, Limiting Dilution, and Virus Isolation
We used Vero CCL-81 cells for isolation and initial passage. We cultured Vero E6, Vero CCL-81, HUH 7.0, 293T, A549, and EFKB3 cells in Dulbecco minimal essential medium (DMEM) supplemented with heat-inactivated fetal bovine serum (5% or 10%) and antibiotics/antimycotics (GIBCO, https://www.thermofisher.comExternal Link). We used both NP and OP swab specimens for virus isolation. For isolation, limiting dilution, and passage 1 of the virus, we pipetted 50 μL of serum-free DMEM into columns 2–12 of a 96-well tissue culture plate, then pipetted 100 μL of clinical specimens into column 1 and serially diluted 2-fold across the plate.
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/11/20-3219_article
We need an expert to analyze these snips, but they seem important:
Virus was isolated from 16 specimens for 16 patients. The median age of the culture-positive patients was 39 years and of the culture-negative patients was 38 years. SARS-CoV-2 N gene copy number in the specimens overall ranged from 9.5 log10 copies/mL to undetectable (limit of detection 10 copies/mL) (Figure 1). The median viral load in culture-positive samples was 7.5 log10 copies/mL …
Virus was isolated from 12 of 17 specimens with viral loads ≥7.0 log10 copies/mL, 3 of 11 specimens with viral loads 6.0–6.99 log10 copies/mL, 1 of 7 specimens with viral loads 5.0–5.99 log10 copies/mL, and 0 of 33 specimens viral loads <5 log10 copies/mL.
https://virologydownunder.com/sigh-yes-the-covid-virus-is-real/
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/grows-virus-cell-culture.html
https://www.aap.com.au/proof-the-virus-behind-covid-19-doesnt-exist-fails-basic-biology-test/
Are exp. vaccines ok if effective treatments exist?
I plan to collect related links below. Let me know if you have some.
Dr Mike Yeadon April 21, 2021 | skip in 08:14
Yeadon seems to imply:
experimental vaccines should not have been allowed since effective treatments for SARS-CoV-2 exist.
https://www.strategic-culture.org/contributors/matthew-ehret/
Matthew J.L. Ehret is a journalist, lecturer and founder of the Canadian Patriot Review.
https://canadianpatriot.org/author/mattehret/
https://highlanderjuan.com/blog/news-commentary/matthew-ehret-investigative-journalist-historian/
https://asiatimes.com/author/matthew-ehret/
https://www.veteranstoday.com/author/ehret/
https://muckrack.com/matthew-ehret/articles
https://phibetaiota.net/2021/01/whos-who-in-cultural-commercial-intelligence-matt-ehret/
Work by or about Matthew J.L. Ehret
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Anton Chaitkin intro
https://www.antonchaitkin.com/about
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Chaitkin
Work by or about Anton Chaitkin
Dr Peter A McCullough intro
https://www.cardiometabolichealth.org/peter-mccullough.html
https://www.heartplace.com/dr-peter-a-mccullough
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_A._McCullough
McCullough self described in https://www.truthforhealth.org/patient-guide-e-booklet-download-page
Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, FACC, FCCP, FAHA, FNKF, FNLA, FCRSA
Internist, Cardiologist, and Epidemiologist,
President, Cardiorenal Society of America
Creator and Host: The McCullough Report, on
America Out Loud Talk Radio
Work by or about Dr Peter A. McCullough
Peter McCullough, MD testifies to Texas Senate HHS Committee | 20 min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAHi3lX3oGM
https://thenewamerican.com/covid-shot-killing-large-numbers-warns-top-covid-doc-peter-mccullough/
Peter McCullough interviewed by Dr Breggin https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/zjg4aw/Breggin_050521.mp3
- 00:47:19 Repeat Covid-19 cases do not happen… natural immunity, T-cell immunity
- 00:51:34 SARS vax research started prior to Jan 2017
- 00:53:37 warp speed concept may go back to 2017?
- 00:54:41 Johns Hopkins 89 page doc by Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in Oct 2017 “The SPARS Pandemic”
- 00:56:06 Ginger and I think weve had..covid-19
- 00:57:31 T cell immunity… far more trustable… “T Cell Direct” test | Adaptive Technologies
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Naomi Wolfe PhD intro
Work by or about Naomi Wolfe
https://www.facebook.com/naomi.wolf.author
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Naomi_Wolf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Wolf
CEO of https://DailyClout.io
Dr Richard M Fleming intro
I’ve only spent about 30 min researching Fleming. He does have some “trouble” in his past – I do not have a position one way or the other – more study needed ( Fri 17 Sep 2021 ).
https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/omaha/press-releases/2009/om082009.htm
Dr. Richard M. Fleming was born and raised in Iowa and is a “Kennedy Kid” receiving advanced scientific training through this program he received a formal education in Calculus and Particle Physics. He has received degrees in Physics, Biology, Chemistry and Psychology graduating second in his class, attended the University of Iowa College of Medicine graduating with High Honors; 1 of 17 Honors IM. He completed his law degree receiving class award for memorandum of law. While at Iowa he participated in human research, studying sodium and hypertension by measuring nerve conduction differentiating parasympathetic vs sympathetic responses.
https://www.flemingmethod.com/about-richard
In 1994, Dr. Fleming presented to the American Heart Association his “theory” that cardiovascular disease was due to inflammation. What was theory in 1994 has become well known fact for decades and was highlighted in 2004,with a feature on ABC’s 20/20 News.
Patent # 9566037 was issued to Dr. Fleming on February 14, 2017
Work by or about Richard M Fleming
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ZXRh3kD0vEW4/
https://www.amazon.com/Dr.-Richard-M.-Fleming/e/B08NGY2YZK%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
gender critical feminist intro
I spend more of my time on issues other than gender identity. I’m new & still learning. I am not spokes person for gender critical feminists; I expect some of what I post here is wrong – I will fix as time permits.
For gender critical feminists these labels do not apply: transphobe, homophobe, anti-trans, TERF, Biphobe. OK, some gender critical feminists self id as TERF – personally I think that works against their cause.
The reaction against some fringe trans views is not limited to gender critical feminists. For these views you might look at the broader group at http://www.dialoguenotexpulsion.org ( this site may go up and down / keep trying it [July 2021] ).
As I understand there’s the ( gender critical feminist ) concern that young girls are transitioning to trans males without enough grasp of the process. Some trans males are viewed as threats to the safety and well being of girls and women. Gender critical feminists believe in respecting given names for trans people, but not in laws that make biological-sex-based pronouns illegal. There is no intention of being disrespectful here, as I understand it. They assert that a woman is a biological female. They believe that gender is cultural; that traditional male and female roles should not stifle freedom. They believe in sex based rights; in safe spaces for biological females.
Here are selected gender ideology links ( mostly gender critical feminist ) that I have accumulated over several months:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/07/08/making-sense-of-sex-and-gender/
Robert Jensen is a professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men. He can be reached atrjensen@austin.utexas.edu or online at http://robertwjensen.org/.
https://www.dialoguenotexpulsion.org/documents/Green-Feminists-Response-to-LC-Complaint
https://savethegreenparty.org/common_sense#common_sense
https://zq3q.org/fp/hedges_gencrit0.htm | Chris Hedges touches on gender critical issue – main focus on cancel culture
https://womensdeclaration.com/en/declaration-womens-sex-based-rights-full-text/
As a society, we need to resolve the question of how to protect the privacy, dignity and rights of trans women while also respecting the privacy, dignity and rights of those born female.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27603912 | A backlash against gender ideology is starting in universities
https://www.womensliberationfront.org/news/freedom-of-speech-gender-id
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/v47mn9/RR_032821.mp3 Jennifer Bilek interviewed in 2021 by Derrick Jenson on 2013+ gender id industry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZCOiDzLWHw Susan Hawthorne—Author & radical ecofeminist lesbian—Derrick Jensen Resistance Radio 2021-02-21
https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/5236fc59-47ae-41c9-93f7-4ea16b5782c3?in=15:11:27&out=15:14:31 | You have to unmute the audio – look for speaker icon.
https://savageminds.substack.com/p/robert-jensen | Jensen discusses his introduction to radical feminism
https://youtu.be/tzId7X9NtR0 | 1hr+ | The true story of the women fighting the transgender agenda (2021)
I listened to 22 minutes of this. Seems worthwhile so far.
https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/5236fc59-47ae-41c9-93f7-4ea16b5782c3
Skip to 15:11:30 for women’s sex based rights discussion.
https://lesbianandgaynews.com/2021/02/45578/
she’s protesting the gender clinic “because the general public has no idea what’s really going on. We just want to protect our healthy kids from becoming lifelong medical patients.
Work, mate, marry, love | origin of family, evolution of womens’ role
https://youtu.be/mXXJoOsdoNE?t=680 | Glen Greenwald | Trending as a Transphobe and Biphobe
https://www.reddit.com/r/detrans/
TERF acronym | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERF
I’m convinced now in Apr 2022, that perhaps most gender critical radical feminists now embrace/accept the term TERF. As they say “get over it”. I do not entirely understand why, since they are as a rule tolerant/supportive of females that want to adopt male gender behaviors and vv. I sort of get it. it is not worth fighting this label; it’s not going away – it’s what the TRAs (trans rights activists) call them; so the hell with it, they embrace it.
TRA | https://transtrolleyproblems.wordpress.com/dog-whistles/
TRA
“Trans rights activist.” You’ll almost never see the abbreviation used outside of TERF circles …
For TRAs, TERF is associated with transphobe, homophobe, anti-trans, biphobe, bigot.
Examples of TRA TERF abuse: https://terfisaslur.com | warning- this is extreme, and offensive
Yemen podcasts I’ve listened to
https://dissentradio.com/radio/21_06_24_arrabyee.mp3
- 9/25/20 Andrea Prasow on the Deadly Consequences of the US-Saudi War in Yemen
- FCNL Middle East lobbyist lead Hassan El Tayyab 30min interview | Mar 27 2020
interview: https://dissentradio.com/radio/20_03_27_tayyab.mp3
Saudi Deal w/USA to allow Yemen War
This was on Loud and Clear, skip in 4m 30s: http://www.radio4all.net/files/CPRmetro@gmail.com/4910-3-WEEKDAY_WORLD_030818_part_3_of_3.mp3
– end of Yemen section –
Theexpose.uk
Theexpose.uk has the annoying popups, that ask for money. Ryan Cristián of thelastamericanvagabond.com vouches for Theexpose.uk as a reputable site, despite the lack of real author names on the articles. Per Ryan they are good at linking to their sources.
I spent 15 minutes in (July?) 2021, trying to determine the group behind the site, to no avail.
whois DNS registration:
$ whois Theexpose.uk # Appears to have been 1st registered in Feb-2021. [Querying whois.nic.uk] [whois.nic.uk]
Domain name:
theexpose.uk
[...]
Relevant dates:
Registered on: 14-Feb-2021
Expiry date: 14-Feb-2022
Last updated: 15-Mar-2021
[...]
WHOIS lookup made at 13:05:11 20-Sep-2021How I vet journalists
The journalist vetting work I do is saved to a blog entry.
I web search the journalist using, typically 3-5 of these:
I’m looking for: example articles; reviews and bios of the journalist; videos or podcasts. I review a few of the sources or links.
I scan or read, and select a few articles by or about them; then I may add links to the blog entry.
I note of the date that I first vetted them in blog.
If interested: I subscribe to their RSS blog or podcast feeds or newsletter; I may follow them on social media. If they have a podcast, I often subscribe – this is a good way to get to know a source; by listening to hours of their podcasts.
A first pass at this effort usually takes at least 30 min. Sometimes I spread out the veting over weeks or months before I make the vetting post public.
Over time, I may update the vetting blog entry.
Special case: Thomas Paine, Ben Franklin … There are sites that do not post the author’s real name. In that case I rely on site reviews, and reviewing the sources cited in the articles.
How I vet websites
The website vetting work I do is saved to a blog entry.
I run and study a whois report. Note the domain creation dateand expiration. If meaningful, note the location and owner info.
I web search the URL for the website using, typically 3-5 of these:
http://wikispooks.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/
https://google.com
https://duckduckgo.com
https://www.reddit.com/
http://www.sourcewatch.org
https://everipedia.org
https://www.historycommons.org/
https://www.nndb.com/
https://biography.com/
https://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/
https://www.earnthenecklace.com/
https://www.revolvy.com
https://alchetron.com
I study: example articles; reviews of the website.
Review the about us, and contact us pages. Look for an index of authors that post there. Look for and review their “blogroll” or equivalent.
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Collaborative Real Time Web Editors
Intro
Last week (early Apr 2017) I found out that the pirate party is using a Collaborative Web Editor to conduct all it’s monthly meetings online. If anyone is curious, email me and I can give you a link (thought it would be rude to show here). They use a tool very similar to etherpad; I recommend/explain etherpad below.
Google Doc Alternatives
tweet: [cryptpad review | goo docs alternative | FLOSS] #collabtools #collabwebeditors | home: https://cryptpad.fr/ | https://zq3q.org/pco/#qespx_cryptpadreview
cryptpad review | goo docs alternative | FLOSS | #collabtools #collabwebeditors | home: https://cryptpad.fr/ | since 2016 | https://zq3q.org/pco/#qespx_cryptpadreview
Uses FLOSS AGPL 3 license | https://github.com/xwiki-labs/cryptpad/blob/main/LICENSE
Free and paid versions hosted either by the flagship site https://cryptpad.fr/ or on various independent public servers. Has revision control. cryptpad can not read your docs. They do not know your password or provide password recovery.
cryptpad supports “text box” entry, which can be leveraged by browser addons like “it’s all text” so that you may use your own editor.
The free version has limited disk space, just enough to be useful. The doc-open start up time is slow but tolerable.
>
> CryptPad has been supported since 2016 by French and
> European research grants such as BPI France, NLNet
> Foundation, NGI Trust, Mozilla Open Source Support. We
> believe that public money should fund public code, so
> the service is fully open source. This means anyone
> can use, host, and modify the software.
https://docs.cryptpad.org/en/user_guide/security.html
The “flag ship” cryptpad.fr provides a server, but there are other instances: https://cryptpad.org/instances/.
https://cryptpad.piratenpartei.de/ | This CryptPad instance is hosted by the Pirate Party of Germany. We stand for privacy and digital sovereignty.
https://pad.vern.cc/ | Hosted in a local server in New York, United States
I have met regularly w/the pirate pty of MA USA; they’re strongly against surveillance, and pro privacy.
https://www.maketecheasier.com/google-docs-alternatives/
http://alternativeto.net/software/piratepad/
http://www.transitionblog.com/3-alternatives-that-can-replace-google-docs-easily/
Summary/Conclusion: let’s try Etherpad_Lite
This tool uses the Apache Software License which is considered a free software license.
I first became aware of Etherpad in 2011 during the WI protests, when people were using http://piratepad.net. I think Etherpad_Lite is a rewrite of the code used by piratepad. piratepad seems to be most active in Europe (Netherlands, Germany for ex).
Etherpad.org appears to have an active development community. Etherpad_Lite is basic and simple, no frills, easy to start using, requiring no registration, no user names. It is based on Etherpad, but is a ground up rewrite. It is a real time text editor so (assuming you are viewing the same lines in the doc) you can see changes made in real time by all users currently editing the doc. It has a play back/ time slider feature to rewind back and forward in time to allow you to see all edits – character by character. You may export your document to various formats.
Etherpad
I need to find active example public sites. Not clear, but http://piratepad.net and http://piratepad.nl/ may still run it?
(next gen) Etherpad Lite, rewrite of Etherpad
- https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/wiki/FAQ
- home
- wikipedia on Etherpad_Lite
- http://blog.etherpad.org/
- License is Apache License 2.0
- wiki
- Try one of these public pad sites:
Apache Software license
This is a free software license, compatible with version 3 of the GNU GPL.