Humpday Links, Feb 15th, 2017

UnkaWillbur Feb 15, 2017

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Bashing Trump Doesn’t Make You A Rebel, It Makes You An Establishment Tool.

Dan Wright, over at Shadowproof, breaks down how Deep State leaks led to Flynn’s resignation.

Flynn, Russia and the World of Conspiracy Thinking .

Cenk Uygur: From The Young Turks to the Justice Democrats. Comments are open are Disqus, so go give Cenk and TD an idea of what you think of their shepherding for the DNC! 😉

Playboy Magazine Snaps Out Of Its Never-Nude Phase.

US Air Force Significantly Increases Involvement In Saudi War In Yemen. Under Obama.

Lee Fang, over at The Intercept, exposes the DNC veal-pen organizations (like NAACP, The Urban League, etc.) that are betraying the public on net neutrality.

The Kabuki continues to unfold as expected. I’ve said it from the beginning: Republicans don’t fuck with corporate welfare programs, and neither do Democrats, so the ACA is going nowhere.

The Democrats’ central weakness comes from being a ~~party of business~~ far-right party, but having to pretend otherwise.

Welcome to the new dark ages, where only the wealthy can retire.

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Your Weekend of Weekends.

UnkaWillbur - May 26, 2017

Here' some links to nosh on, to start of your weekend. I hope everyone's weekend is great; me, myself, I'm planning on jumping out of a perfectly…

Unkawillbur

Your Song of the Day…

https://youtu.be/SPlQpGeTbIE
- Dosido3
  
  Haha! I know you’re a fan of low res graphics, unk. I can only think of White Chicks when I hear this song. 🙂
- Edwin
  
  ^_^
- Edwin
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8SVYDvMVzY
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.San Diego Police Targets African American Children for Unlawful DNA Collection

Specifically targeting black children for unlawful DNA collection is a gross abuse of technology by law enforcement. But it’s exactly what the San Diego Police Department is doing, according to a lawsuit just filed by the ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties on behalf of one of the families affected. SDPD’s actions, as alleged in the complaint, illustrate the severe and very real threats to privacy, civil liberties, and civil rights presented by granting law enforcement access to our DNA. SDPD must stop its discriminatory abuse of DNA collection technology.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/02/san-diego-police-targets-african-american-children-unlawful-dna-collection
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.NYPD Rapist Can’t Reduce 75-to-Life Term

A former police officer who raped a New York City schoolteacher in broad daylight drew no sympathy from New York’s highest court, which unanimously affirmed his 75-to-life sentence on Valentine’s Day.

***I suggest they stop feeding him. That would reduce his sentence considerably.***

http://courthousenews.com/nypd-rapist-cant-reduce-75-to-life-term/
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.Two Cops from Same Dept, in 2 Days, Arrested for Rape — 1 Victim was a Child

“Isolated incident,” “a few bad apples” — these are just some of the terms used to downplay occurrences of police misconduct. “This officer is not representative of all police,” we are told when a serial rapist cop is exposed. However, when looking at actual numbers, these incidents appear to be anything but isolated. Two
recent police officer arrests last week in El Paso, Texas — both for sexual assault — back this point up quite powerfully.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/2-cops-arrested-sexual-assault-child/
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.Cops Electrocute Pregnant Teen with 50,000 Volts After She Demands a Warrant to Enter Home

In an extremely disturbing video, an NYPD officer can be seen traumatizing a pregnant teen by shocking her with a stun gun. The teen was accused of resisting arrest on Friday night after she refused to let officers enter her apartment without a warrant.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cops-electrocute-pregnant-teen/
Dosido3

Question…I don’t think Trump knows WTF he’s doing. So how *should* TPTB have dealt with Flynn? I saw headlines suggesting flynn was “politically assassinated” which has a hint of martyrdom attached to it that I don’t think he deserves.
- Unkawillbur
  
  From my perspective, I don’t think Trump is completely clueless, I *do* think that the Plutocratic class is spending a lot of money to portray him as such, because he is rich enough to flout their demands, and they want servants, not independent power-brokers.
  
  Viewed outside of the hurricane of anti-Trump propaganda coming from the Plutocrats and their media outlets, I’d say he’s behaved like a pretty standard “conservative” Republican, in his appointments and rhetoric.
  - thud
    
    They seem so dysfunctional. I think they scare the poop out of the lifers. Scare me too. You may call it a coup but I think if he demonstrated the ability to actually function this wouldn’t be happening.
    - Unkawillbur
      
      Of course, it’s the press that makes any of the figureheads of the last 2+ decades look reasonably sane and competent, so it’s no surprise that they do a fine job smearing whoever they want.
      
      That’s doesn’t mean Trump is some kind of people’s champion, or even moderately moral, just that he’s not approved of by the billionaires who control our nation and want to keep it that way. 🙁
      - thud
        
        There are some real differences between the leaders and potential leaders. For example,the other day when Putin wanted to chat with Lord Trump about the START treaty and Lord Trump had to put the phone down and ask what’s he talking about. Hillary,for all we may loathe her would NOT have been so blindsided by this. This is THE most important task that a president has,keeping the nukes from flying. If that don’t spook you then what does? I’d trust Cheney and his crew of monsters over these folks.
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.$100,000 vaccine challenge to be announced soon

Robert Kennedy is now chairman of a foundation called The World Mercury Project and will announce later today the project will be conducting a $100,000 journalistic challenge, which will offer one-hundred thousand dollars to any person who can point to any existing study showing that it is safe to inject mercury into children in the amount currently in vaccines.

http://thefifthcolumnnews.com/2017/02/100000-vaccine-challenge-to-be-announced-soon/
- Dosido3
  
  Oh so HE wants to talk about pharma!
- Unkawillbur
  
  Of course, since his anti-vaxx irrationality can’t tolerate the objective facts, no one’s likely to win this chimerical prize.
Dosido3

This story is for Pig if he stops by. Special Ed teacher talks about Devos. https://shadowproof.com/2017/02/14/special-education-teacher-devos-students/
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.The 3 Pillars of Deep State Must Be Knocked Down Post Haste

• The Mainstream Media must be shut down.
• The Central Intelligence Agency must be dissolved.
• The Federal Reserve System must be taken over by the U.S. Treasury

http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=66083
- towerofbabel
  
  Congratulations! You are now officially classified as a terrorist.
  - Edwin
    
    We’re all terrists now.
    - thud
      
      Can I be a heretic terrrirrist?
  - 17
    
    Now?
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.The text of a new Republican bill has just one line: “To terminate the US Environmental Protection Agency”

The text of a bill introduced in the US House of Representatives in early February to dramatically change the way the government regulates environmental issues was finally posted online for public viewing, and it gets right to the point. The statement of purpose for H. R. 861 is only one line long: “To terminate the
Environmental Protection Agency.”

H.R. 861 was introduced to the House by Matt Gaetz, a Republican from Florida who took office in January. It’s co-sponsored by Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, who introduced another one-line bill last week, to “terminate the Department of Education.” The text of H.R. 899 is not yet posted online, but on his website Massie promises it has only eight words: “The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, 2018.”

https://qz.com/911647/the-text-of-a-new-republican-bill-has-just-one-line-to-terminate-the-u-s-environmental-protection-agency/
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.Flynn’s Head Rolls. Is Trump’s Next?

It seems very likely that having procured Flynn’s scalp, the political enemies of Trump will not stop there. The big prize is Trump himself and his ousting from the presidency through impeachment on charges of conspiring with an enemy state.

All the hoopla over Flynn in the US media is just the beginning of a campaign to finger Trump as the person who gave him clearance to illicitly contact the Russians.

A soft coup against Trump by the US Deep State has been speculated for some time now, especially over his «friendly» Russia policy being at odds with the powers-that-be who are hellbent on hostility towards Moscow. And it seems that incompetence within the Trump administration is playing straight into that agenda to oust him from the White House.

http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/02/15/flynn-head-rolls-trump-next.html
- David Schultz
  
  Back in my days it seemed like there was a constant soft coup against the Carter Administration. They had no friends with either the liberal or conservative establishment and were endlessly at war with the bureaucracy. If they coudn’t find something they would manufacture something. Some of you may be too old to remember the swimming rabbit controversies and other nonsense. This is just another Bert Lance event.
  - EdgarHF
    
    I think most of Carter’s problem was that he brought mostly Georgia people to fill his staff instead of greasing the wheels with the D.C old boy network. I am not as keen on Carter as many people are. He did after all start the deregulation ball rolling. That said, he is a saint compared to almost anyone that is part of the Democratic establishment today.
    - towerofbabel
      
      Back then, some politicians did seem like statesmen to me. Now they all look corrupt–to varying degrees.
      - David Schultz
        
        The ghost of Tea Pot Dome still lingered over politics well until the Bill Clinton era. That is when the press started making light of financial donations and dirty money. The money in politics is very different now.
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.Take the FBI Terror Questionnaire, See if you are heading for Gitmo?

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/02/14/take-the-fbi-terror-questionnaire-see-if-you-are-heading-for-gitmo/
Edwin

Greetings.

I did go to Truthdig and leave a few comments. It felt good.
towerofbabel

Spooky image of the Ghoul-Gurl.
- notisaidthepig
  
  (((shudders)))
  - EdgarHF
    
    Oh noooooo! The pig is here! Hey, noti!
    - notisaidthepig
      
      Hi, Edgar! So nice to run into you. I’m not here for long. Waiting for a text from a friend to go to dinner. How the hell are you?
      - EdgarHF
        
        Doing good, noti. I’m not on long myself. To much ADHD for me to stay at the computer too long. I usually go back and forth between computer, guitar, and reading on a typical evening 🙂
EdgarHF

“Playboy Magazine Snaps Out Of Its Never-Nude Phase.”

Playboy is even still around?
EdgarHF

“I’ve said it from the beginning: Republicans don’t fuck with corporate welfare programs, and neither do Democrats, so the ACA is going nowhere.”

Both halves of the duopoly play the same game. They act like they are fighting tooth and nail when they can’t do squat. When in power the fight fades away. Remember the whining and crying for term limits in the 90s? You are absolutely right, it’s kabuki.
- Dosido3
  
  Doing nothing is a feature not a bug.
towerofbabel

Crossposted from Far-Left-Chat.

This is a wonderful lecture by Bruno Latour, delivered at Harvard last year. If you haven’t been following his intellectual explorations it may seem esoteric at first. He touches on the politics of climate change, the new human reality of the anthropocene, and the sociology of science and technology. Latour challenges the ideologies underpinning “modernism” and science that covertly rely upon religion-like dogmas. He systematically breaks down the boundaries between science, art and politics–so he is controversial to many. PersonalIy, I think that we need to break the shackles of conventional thinking to confront the problems we are facing and Latour offers new ways of thinking about our world. If you are curious, his six-lecture series for the University of Edinburgh is masterful. But be aware, his books and lectures aren’t always easy to understand because he crosses the normal boundaries of disciplinary thinking with ease.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTvbK10ABPI
- kreskin
  
  Hc
notisaidthepig

Good morning!
- kreskin
  
  Dobre’ utra .
- Unkawillbur
  
  Hola mi amiga!
  - notisaidthepig
    
    Amiga? Soy amigO!
Dosido3

my song for the day (Thursday). Be strong!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DblvhECdws0
Dosido3

My analysis of the power crisis in DC: Trump is used to being the john, not the working girl…discuss
- Unkawillbur
  
  Seems on point. I mean, while he’s just a minor pimp, in the plutocratic landscape, he’s definitely not used to being directly run by other pimps.
Unkawillbur

You know what helps in the morning? When you hit “Publish”, that’s what helps! 😀
- Dosido3
  
  https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/17/65/3f/17653f8e03df8b51bfa64102fd4490c3.jpg