It’s a “Wanna Wonga” Wednesday..

UnkaWillbur Mar 01, 2017

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Criminalizing Coverage: Three Unicorn Riot Journalists Face Trial This Week From DAPL Coverage.

A little old, but worth the read: Some notes on the worst-case scenario.

Fascists (with the help of organizations like ALEC) are pursuing another campaign to destroy Western society as more states introduce bills to interfere with science education.

Human psychology is incredibly powerful; we pretend we aren’t subject to its foibles at our own peril! This Picture Has No Red Pixels—So Why Do the Strawberries Still Look Red?

Cash might be grungy, unfashionable and corruptible, but it is still a great public good, important for rich and poor alike.

Serving up a NOAA-thing burger.

New York Times Gets Budget Story About Looming Trump-Ryan Clash Almost Completely Wrong.

Kabuki theater, doing nothing but making people feel good about themselves.

The Mainstream Media’s “Victimhood”

The Internet is more fragile than you imagine.

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UnkaWillbur - Jun 05, 2017

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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…

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Unkawillbur

Your Song of the Day…

https://youtu.be/uyjcbpVcyJs
notisaidthepig

Same as it ever was….
- Dosido3
  
  Oink! It’s your day, Pig! Enjoy #nationalpigday
  
  https://twitter.com/cbcdocs/status/836923235358822400
- Dosido3
  
  https://youtu.be/ffhSkKviw1I
  - notisaidthepig
    
    That was beautiful.
- Edwin
  
  http://calendarholidays.xyz/national/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/National-Pig-Day-Photo-600×400.gif
  - notisaidthepig
    
    I didn’t even know. Oink!
Dosido3

I didn’t watch the whole address from our idiot in chief, but god damn, I heard the huge cheer for pipelines. Grrrrrrrrrrargghhhggg
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.The 5 Biggest Lies in Trump’s Speech to Congress

While some suggested that Trump’s speech was more “optimistic” than usual, the U.S. president stayed true to his fear mongering “alternative facts.”

While many pundits suggested that U.S. President Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday was an attempt to change the “tone” of the opening months of his presidency, he clearly was unable to veer from delivering a near-constant barrage of lies and half-truths.

Many news organizations offered live fact-checking of Trump’s first major address to Congress and the Center for American Progress — a pro-Clinton Democratic think-tank — claimed that Trump “told a whopping 51 lies in his 61-minute address.”

We sifted through the pile to pick out some of Trump’s biggest whoppers.

http://geopoliticsalert.com/5-biggest-lies-trumps-speech-congress
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.Same Trump, New Shine

Donald Trump’s — or perhaps more accurately, Steve Bannon’s — first address to Congress was a master class in doing what Trump does best: combining right-wing populist rhetoric with a mishmash of falsehoods, scapegoating, and brazen corporatism.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/donald-trump-joint-session-speech-presidential-xenophobia-navy-seal-voice/
- Dosido3
  
  Ugh. I sat for listened to DT for a few minutes with my face in my hands. It was dreadful. But I disagree with this conclusion:
  “If Trump’s address to Congress is any indication, he’s going to continue attempting to present himself as a genuine populist while pursuing his other, more awful goals — which has always been his most successful strategy. It’s up to the Left to show how hollow this image really is.”
  
  How can the Left do this if they are just as corrupt, just as fascist, just as hideous as the Right? It is up to the press do this…oh, but how can they if they have shown themselves to be utterly devoid of credibility?
  
  We’re screwed. The only ones who can show how hollow this image is, is ourselves. We must educate each other – kindly and gently – with facts and evidence.
  - EdgarHF
    
    “How can the Left do this if they are just as corrupt, just as fascist, just as hideous as the Right? ”
    
    Because they are not really the left?
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      Exactly. In fact, I don’t think there really IS a left or right anymore. It’s us on the bottom versus them on the top. Eat the fucking rich, or starve.
      - FaunaAndFlora
        
        That’s why those on the top use “wedge issues” to keep the rest of us divided and conquered.
      - thud
        
        “Eggs” Ackely! I’ve chatted with some at BB.com and found that we actually share some values. But it’s vereboten for us to agree on goals. Our methods to get there still need a bit of work. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4f60f4a9d9c5b2de9c0d02711437ae486587f36f224d2f33ebb724f681cb0087.png
      - FaunaAndFlora
        
        Hey Thud. How’s it going?
      - thud
        
        Five hammer day. You?
      - FaunaAndFlora
        
        Hanging in there. Lost power tonight. Love my generator! Now it’s snowing. About time we had some normal weather for this time of year. 😉
      - thud
        
        We had romperstomper storms blast thru here last night. First tornado here since 1950. No shit baseball size hail! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/69ace05f530f469008af122ec4e97b19f3667ccb20d7c83dfe1cd424d3408e34.jpg
      - FaunaAndFlora
        
        Wow! That’s one hell of a piece of hail.
      - thud
        
        First tornado in Feb. that is. back to early spring in a couple of days.
      - FaunaAndFlora
        
        You’re in Illinois?
      - thud
        
        Yup.
      - FaunaAndFlora
        
        Yeah, you got hit today. Storm seems to have blown out by the time it got to Michigan. We had a little thunder and lightning last night, and some wind here today, but nothing like what you got. Still lost power though. Not sure why.
    - Dosido3
      
      Oh. I almost had hope there. I meant the Professional “Left”…
    - thud
      
      Politics is not bipolar. Convene parliament and form coalitions. It ain’t perfect but it beats hell outa the shit the US gots now.
- thud
  
  Well,it’s really HARD to make a good speech when you represent libertarians,authoritarians,religious fundamentalists and the Klan. But maybe it’s easier when nobody rational expects anything but shit out of you anyway.
  - kreskin
    
    Good point .
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South China Sea: We Want the Problem, Now You Sort It Out

First the Golan Heights, now the South China Sea – The United States used to patrol this regularly to ensure “freedom of navigation” for all the nations who claim part (or all) of the sea and the islands within it. Now it is being reported that it has called its aircraft carriers home and left the competing states to sort it out for themselves: hoping, of course, that they won’t.

http://journal-neo.org/2017/03/01/south-china-sea-we-want-the-problem-now-you-sort-it-out/
- Dosido3
  
  well, damned if you do, damned if you don’t…
  - thud
    
    I’m down the damned if you don’t if that means not extending US power up to ANY other countries mutually confirmed limits. Crank the shit back down.
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.Trump’s new chief economist is known for arguing that US inequality isn’t an issue

According to multiple reports, the economist Kevin Hassett will be appointed as US President Donald Trump’s chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisors. Hassett has been a professor at New York’s Columbia University, an advisor to former US President George W. Bush and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, and is currently a senior researcher at the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).

He is also an inequality skeptic.

https://qz.com/921204/trumps-chief-economist-kevin-hassett-doesnt-think-economic-inequality-is-an-issue/
- Unkawillbur
  
  See reply above. LOL.
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.Israel’s Anti-Semitism Smears Backfire

Israel has often succeeded in silencing criticism of its treatment of Palestinians by calling critics anti-Semites and scaring politicians into canceling public events, but the tactic is now starting to backfire, writes retired U.S. diplomat Ann Wright.

https://consortiumnews.com/2017/03/01/israels-anti-semitism-smears-backfire/
- kreskin
  
  That crap has gotten old , it doesn’t work anymore .
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.Trump Retreats on Detente with Russia

President Trump toned down his combative rhetoric in speaking to Congress but, more significantly, ditched his campaign promises about détente with Russia and a reduced military presence abroad, says Gilbert
Doctorow.

https://consortiumnews.com/2017/03/01/trump-retreats-on-detente-with-russia/
- Unkawillbur
  
  “Moving The Project Forward!”
  
  https://youtu.be/GC23d8gttq8
- kreskin
  
  The guy is nuts , unstable . How can they let this clown run the country ?
  - Unkawillbur
    
    Easy Answer! He doesn’t run the country. He’s just a showpiece, like he’s always been.
notisaidthepig

Good morning.
- Edwin
  
  ^_^
- Edwin
  
  Happy day after pig day.
  
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  - notisaidthepig
    
    OMG. That’s beautiful!
Unkawillbur

We have reached Peak Thursday.