From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Sun Mar  1 04:11:07 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 22:11:07 -0600
Subject: [Peace] US/Russian weaponry
In-Reply-To: <CAPnrEOXstGgjoxZepX7o2L9qsFM0n-VpyoyeNHxy2BaxLL8tPQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <789241D3-DBD8-44BF-8F02-142AF6C585A4@newsfromneptune.com>
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Andrew Cockburn, the author, wrote the excellent 2015 book, "Kill Chain: Drones and the Rise of High-Tech Assassins?:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Chain:_Drones_and_the_Rise_of_High-Tech_Assassins>. 


> On Feb 29, 2020, at 4:55 PM, John W. <jbw292002 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> That was quite informative, Carl.  Thank you.
> 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 9:48 AM C. G. Estabrook via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> https://lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n05/andrew-cockburn/like-a-ball-of-fire


From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Tue Mar  3 12:22:27 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 06:22:27 -0600
Subject: [Peace] On Afghanistan: Bravo Donald Trump
Message-ID: <0FEADBE0-C12A-4A71-AB7B-BAA15CF60744@newsfromneptune.com>

https://theintercept.com/2020/03/02/on-afghanistan-three-words-i-never-thought-id-write-bravo-donald-trump/

Obama expanded US war in Afghanistan: Trump campaigned on bringing US troops home.

?CGE

From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Tue Mar  3 18:43:12 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 12:43:12 -0600
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] On Afghanistan: Bravo Donald
 Trump--"WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS..."
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References: <0FEADBE0-C12A-4A71-AB7B-BAA15CF60744@newsfromneptune.com>
 <1039438675.5206744.1583240142306@mail.yahoo.com>
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That?s certainly what the good liberals (CIA, FBI, NSA, State Dept., Rep & Dem parties) want, and the reason they're so determined to get Trump out of office (for fear he?ll do what he campaigned on) - so they can continue Obama?s war-making. (What do you think Pres. Biden will do?).  


> On Mar 3, 2020, at 7:00 AM, Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> Trump's Afghan withdrawal is fake news, a hoax. It's a conditions-based drawdown, which even if fulfilled, will leave the same level of U.S. troops in Afghanistan as when he took office, before his "surge." Same thing Obama did. Welcome to the new boss, same as the old boss. 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> To: Peace <peace at anti-war.net>
> Cc: peace-discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
> Sent: Tue, Mar 3, 2020 6:23 am
> Subject: [Peace-discuss] On Afghanistan: Bravo Donald Trump
> 
> https://theintercept.com/2020/03/02/on-afghanistan-three-words-i-never-thought-id-write-bravo-donald-trump/
> 
> Obama expanded US war in Afghanistan: Trump campaigned on bringing US troops home.

Obama stealthily performed two crucial tasks for the US ruling class:

(1) neutralize the antiwar movement (the largest antiwar demonstrations in history had occurred before the invasion of Iraq); and 

(2) expand the wars he inherited (in Afghanistan and Iraq) and initiate war in six other countries to retard the economic integration of Eurasia.

Trump was the first major party candidate in 40 years to campaign against these neolib and neocon policies. That got him elected, but in office this weakest president since Coolidge largely went along with those policies. The ?deep state? has so far prevented withdrawals form Afghanistan and Iraq.

Perhaps that?s changing, but it?s the real reason for the hysterical attempts remove him (Russiagate/impeachment/etc.) ?CGE



From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Wed Mar  4 00:11:58 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 18:11:58 -0600
Subject: [Peace] Q: Who wants the war in Afghanistan?
Message-ID: <4057EE12-E361-453E-B3D4-27271096764A@newsfromneptune.com>

A: The US political establishment: they fear that Trump may end it.

As it has publicly asserted for at least forty years, the US government wants to continue the war in Afghanistan (and elsewhere) to retard the economic integration of Eurasia and the rise of ?peer competitors,? Russia and China. 

9-11 was an excuse to continue the US invasion of Afghanistan, which began in effect in the Carter administration ?to give the USSR a Vietnam of its own,? as Carter?s National Security Adviser said.

Thus the US political establishment is horrified at the thought that Trump might end the war, which threatens both Russia and China in southwest Asia. That animates the hysterical attempts to remove Trump from office (Russiagate, impeachment) before he?s able effectively to alter US war policy from Carter through Obama.

?CGE

From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Wed Mar  4 04:42:44 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 22:42:44 -0600
Subject: [Peace] Suppress dangerous talk
Message-ID: <A8549885-DD02-4260-90BD-B2C01BC61C0F@newsfromneptune.com>

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/03/04/dnc-scrambles-to-change-debate-threshold-after-gabbard-qualifies/?fbclid=IwAR3GBHxX07gQH1sgA4Qo6P1DiObc92J6LJH9xn7Tz65mOtfvIjH3jaA_S6Y

Gabbard won a delegate from America Samoa tonight and within minutes of that, Democratic party operatives raised the threshold for delegates, meaning, Gabbard won't be permitted in the March debate. See how it works?

"The establishment narrative warfare against Gabbard's campaign dwarfs anything we've seen against Sanders, and the loathing and dismissal they've been able to generate have severely hamstrung her run. It turns out that a presidential candidate can get away with talking about economic justice and plutocracy when it comes to domestic policy, and some light dissent on matters of foreign policy will be tolerated, but aggressively attacking the heart of the actual bipartisan foreign policy consensus will get you shut down, smeared and shunned like nothing else. ?

?CGE

From karenaram at hotmail.com  Thu Mar  5 15:14:20 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 07:14:20 -0800
Subject: [Peace] Max Blumenthal & Ben Norton with James Carden on Joe Biden
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From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 07:14:20 -0800
Subject: [Peace] Max Blumenthal & Ben Norton with James Carden on Joe Biden
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From jbn at forestfield.org  Fri Mar  6 00:45:21 2020
From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson)
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 18:45:21 -0600
Subject: [Peace] Notes
Message-ID: <9aa9729d-ce3e-9456-05ef-148ebb644c94@forestfield.org>

War: Afghanistan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUgXeR3lZNI -- 18 years of war in Afghanistan (2 more 
years and that war gets a gold watch!). US-Taliban deal is drafted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQS8WZ_i4S0 -- Afghanistan objects to proposed 
prisoner swap which is part of US-Taliban deal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QRxH4KU3M4 -- Why US-Taliban peace deal may fail.

War: Africa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFj4mIXkC3I -- Formerly-secret data discloses US 
military bases in Africa. "I bless the rains down in Africa." --Toto






Media

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sje8Gp-FVsM -- Employees of Sputnik Turkey are freed 
after a brief detention. Just like the "resistance" from MSNBC, CNN, PBS, ABC, CBS, 
et al, right?






Media/Assange: Jeffrey St. Clair raises some good points in the most recent "Roaming 
Charges":

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/02/28/roaming-charges-get-bernie/

> In response to criticism from Democratic Party centrists that Sanders didn?t do
> enough to help Hillary in 2016, the Sandernistas are touting the fact that Sanders
> did 3 times as many campaign events for Hillary as Hillary did for Obama in 2008.
> I guess that?s one way to look at it. The other is: why the hell was Bernie
> campaigning for Hillary, the walking distillation of every neoliberal policy he
> purports to loathe, at all?

Because Sanders is a sheepdog, not a candidate who seriously challenges the 
establishment. His goal is to draw you into the Democratic Party to keep that party 
alive, not to make that party deliver the policies that will help your life. So much 
of what the late Bruce Dixon wrote in 
https://www.blackagendareport.com/bernie-sanders-sheepdog-4-hillary still applies.

> Only a few months ago, the New York Times was busy denying the existence of a
> ?Democratic Party Establishment.? Now these shadowy powerbrokers have stepped into
> the daylight, knives out to gut Bernie Sanders at all costs, even if it means the
> re-election of Trump and the opening of an ideological schism inside the party
> that may (and perhaps should) never heal.

That schism will be a welcome opportunity to get people to focus more on policy and 
how much the Democrats work with the Republicans to prevent the kind of policies most 
Americans need (national jobs program, UBI, Medicare for All, ending US wars, 
bringing troops/contractors & weapons home, etc.).

> One scheme being openly floated by these would-be kingmakers is to hobble Sanders
> enough in the primaries that he is denied a majority of delegates on the first
> ballot at the convention, whereupon Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown rides in as a
> ?white knight? candidate with Michele Obama riding shotgun as his VP candidate.
> Really?

Rania Khalek addressed a related issue in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNAobiUlh2U 
and her response makes sense: (paraphrasing) this is why there are so many candidates 
still in that race: if candidates can give their delegates to another candidate, they 
can pick an acceptable neocon/neolib (say, Buttigieg, Biden, or Warren) and that 
candidate can end up with more delegates than Sanders. Nearly quoting Khalek, 'One 
candidate can't beat Sanders, but 6 can.'. It looks like she's right: recent 
Democratic Party dropouts have endorsed Biden. Her interview took place before some 
of the dropouts, but I think her point remains valid -- many neocon/neolib defenders 
working together against someone perceived as a threat to those interests (I question 
how much of a threat Sanders really is to those interests, but I concur that the 
perception of threat is there both amongst the elites and Sanders supporters).

> Biden said a few hours before the South Carolina debate that he was running for US
> Senate: And if you don?t like me, vote for the other Biden!?  The other Biden? The
> demyelination process is almost complete?

The Democrats would rather lose to Trump than win with Sanders. Biden is a proven 
neocon/neolib who will go along with the permanent government (like Weak Donald Trump 
has) rather than challenge (as Sanders is expected to be and, I believe, wouldn't if 
elected). It might be entertaining to watch "Sleepy Joe" (as Trump calls Joe Biden) 
debate Trump though.

> In audio at a closed door event at in June 2016, Mike Bloomberg said his
> presidential campaign platform would be to ?defend the banks,? joked about droning
> his personal enemies, and called the progressive movement and Elizabeth Warren
> ?scary.?

Speaking of droning one's enemies, we find those who endorse such behavior keep such 
good company -- Hillary Clinton is reported to have once asked "Can't we just drone 
this guy [Julian Assange]?" regarding WikiLeaks' Editor-in-Chief (per 
https://truepundit.com/under-intense-pressure-to-silence-wikileaks-secretary-of-state-hillary-clinton-proposed-drone-strike-on-julian-assange/).

> Clinton?s State Department was getting pressure from President Obama and his White
> House inner circle, as well as heads of state internationally, to try and cutoff
> Assange?s delivery of the cables and if that effort failed, then to forge a
> strategy to minimize the administration?s public embarrassment over the contents
> of the cables. Hence, Clinton?s early morning November meeting of State?s top
> brass who floated various proposals to stop, slow or spin the Wikileaks
> contamination. That is when a frustrated Clinton, sources said, at some point
> blurted out a controversial query.
>
> ?Can?t we just drone this guy?? Clinton openly inquired, offering a simple remedy
> to silence Assange and smother Wikileaks via a planned military drone strike,
> according to State Department sources. The statement drew laughter from the room
> which quickly died off when the Secretary kept talking in a terse manner, sources
> said. Clinton said Assange, after all, was a relatively soft target, ?walking
> around? freely and thumbing his nose without any fear of reprisals from the United
> States. Clinton was upset about Assange?s previous 2010 records releases,
> divulging secret U.S. documents about the war in Afghanistan in July and the war
> in Iraq just a month earlier in October, sources said. At that time in 2010,
> Assange was relatively free and not living cloistered in in the embassy of Ecuador
> in London. Prior to 2010, Assange focused Wikileaks? efforts on countries outside
> the United States but now under Clinton and Obama, Assange was hammering America
> with an unparalleled third sweeping Wikileaks document dump in five months.
> Clinton was fuming, sources said, as each State Department cable dispatched during
> the Obama administration was signed by her.

https://on.rt.com/7qwj RT has more:

> After Clinton?s drone suggestion, the state department considered offering a
> reward to anyone whose help secured the Australian journalist?s capture and
> extradition to the US. Unnamed sources reported a $10 million price was discussed
> at the meeting.
>
> Following the meeting, Clinton aide Ann-Marie Slaughter emailed Clinton and aides
> Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin and Jake Sullivan with the subject, "RE an SP memo on
> possible legal and nonlegal strategies re Wikileaks."
>
> The email contained an attachment "SP Wikileaks doc final11.23.10.docx." which has
> not been found by federal investigators investigating Clinton?s use of a private
> email server. Wikileaks itself does not have this attachment.
>
> Five days after the meeting, Wikileaks began releasing the CableGate files, on
> November 28, 2010.

But that's just anti-war rhetoric, right Rep. Tulsi 'surgical strikes' Gabbard?





Assange extradition hearing news, reports from people on the scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlRafBoXaCs -- interview with Taylor Hudak, 
co-founder of "Action 4 Assange". Hudak said more corporate journalists are showing 
support for Assange now. Hudak saw CNN present on the first day of Assange's 
extradition hearing outside the courtroom where that hearing and many protests are 
being held. But it remains clear that alternative media, not corporate media, is the 
go-to source for Assange news because alternative media "did a really excellent job 
covering this case and highlighting what was taking place inside the courtroom and 
outside the courtroom".

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/ -- Craig Murray's blog features excellent day-by-day 
coverage of events, highly recommended reading for a number of relevant issues 
including the Assange extradition hearing (look for the "Your Man in the Public 
Gallery" posts and posts featuring the word "Assange").

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRCw9NKx_QU -- RT interview with John Shipton, Julian 
Assange's father.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WABEIKPmTkM -- RT's report on "The US vs Julian 
Assange: Why Washington hates him".




Healthcare: Medicare for All remains popular nationwide -- "In Every Super Tuesday 
State With Exit Polls, Majority of Democratic Voters Support Eliminating Private 
Health Insurance"

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/04/every-super-tuesday-state-exit-polls-majority-democratic-voters-support-eliminating
https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1233939289458839554

> Edison Research exit poll results from Maine, North Carolina, and Virginia showed
> majority support for eliminating private insurance in favor of a universal
> government plan.
> 
> Results from every other Super Tuesday state?with the exception of Utah and
> Arkansas, where Edison did not conduct exit polls?followed the early trend,
> delivering the clearest indication of the 2020 election season that scrapping
> America's wasteful and deadly private insurance system is not as "radical" or
> unpalatable a proposal as some politicians and pundits like to claim.
> 
> Democratic voters in Vermont, the home state of presidential hopeful and Medicare
> for All champion Sen. Bernie Sanders, supported eliminating private insurance by
> the widest margin.
> 
>     A government plan for all instead of private insurance,
>     Support/Oppose:
>     VT: 73%/23%
>     ME: 69%/28%
>     TX: 63%/33%
>     MN: 62%/35%
>     CO: 57%/36%
>     CA: 57%/36%
>     NC: 55%/41%
>     OK: 53%/43%
>     TN: 52%/44%
>     AL: 51%/43%
>     VA: 52%/45%
>     MA: 50%/45%




Skripal poisoning anniversary: What do we know for sure? What more do we know?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruXGk2lRFi0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8tBHho2YMo -- A compelling summary of events to date.

Former PM May's "highly likely" accusation against Russia in the Skripal poisoning 
investigation is almost completely evidenceless and that accusation fueled Russiagate 
speculation. Neither the OPCW nor Porton Down (the UK lab near Salisbury) could 
confirm the origin of the poison used against the Skripals (father Sergey & daughter 
Yulia). The chemical agent involved was identified as one of the so-called "novichok" 
(Russian for "newcomer") nerve agents by Gary Aitkenhead, Chief Executive of the UK 
government's Defense and Science Technology Lab.

> Gary Aitkenhead: We were able to identify it as novichok, to identify it was a
> military-grade nerve agent. We have not verified the precise source but we have
> provided the scientific information to the [UK] government, who have then used a
> number of other sources to piece together the conclusions that they have come to.
This substance is said to be one of the most deadly (a tiny amount one could easily 
carry with them could kill many grown men). However:

- novichok production was said to have stopped in Russia in 1992.
- novichok was studied in a number of other countries including the Czech Republic, 
Sweden, Slovakia, and some suspect the UK.
- novichok formulae were published widely and readily available to all.

- Russia's offer for a joint investigation was rejected by the UK. Russia was blocked 
from access to information from the OPCW probe.

- Coincidentally a British Army Nurse just happened to be on the scene, with her 
daughter, in the park where the Skripals were found slumped over on a park bench. The 
nurse and her daughter wore no protective gear, suffered no symptoms, and 
administered first aid to the Skripals.

- The number of people who did not die from exposure to this allegedly "military 
grade" poison are remarkably high: 2 Skripals, the nurse and her daughter, and a 
local policeman all of whom had contact with the Skripals. The Skripals and the 
policeman were ill for a time but treated and eventually released.

- Yulia Skripal issued one statement through the British police and appeared in one 
TV interview where she asks for no one to contact her. Yulia has been seen since her 
recovery, her father has not. As the RT report says, "Both Skripals have since 
disappeared without a trace.".

- Yulia's cousin Victoria had a brief phone conversation with her:

> Victoria: It was clear she [Yulia] was speaking someone else's words. It could not
> be heard on the phone, but I heard someone say 'You can talk'. Somebody dialed my 
> number for her because she clearly didn't remember my cell number. Logically, she 
> had to call my home number but for some reason she phoned my cell phone.

Victoria had her UK visa applications repeatedly rejected.

-J

From karenaram at hotmail.com  Fri Mar  6 17:21:26 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2020 09:21:26 -0800
Subject: [Peace] Crosstalk with Rania Khalic and Danny Haiphong
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From jbn at forestfield.org  Sat Mar  7 01:07:49 2020
From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson)
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2020 19:07:49 -0600
Subject: [Peace] News from Neptune #453 notes
Message-ID: <8d3e9078-dbf5-cdd8-580f-6287b1398a4e@forestfield.org>

News from Neptune #453
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryb1J8oRliQ
A "U.S. Biowarfare?" episode

A list of links to items referenced on the show.

Rosa Luxemburg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Luxemburg -- born 1871-03-05

Working Class History
https://workingclasshistory.com/




Dave Makichuk on "China?s bioweapon spy story that never was"
https://asiatimes.com/2020/02/chinas-bioweapon-spy-story-that-never-was/
https://archive.md/wT6uy

GreatGameIndia on "Coronavirus Bioweapon ? How China Stole Coronavirus From Canada 
And Weaponized It"
https://greatgameindia.com/coronavirus-bioweapon/

Lance Welton on "IT?S OFFICIAL: Chinese Scientists Find Genetic Explanation For 
Coronavirus Discriminating By Race"
https://vdare.com/articles/it-s-official-chinese-scientists-find-genetic-explanation-for-coronavirus-discriminating-by-race

RT on "ZeroHedge banned from Twitter after BuzzFeed accuses it of coronavirus 
conspiracy and ?doxxing? a Chinese scientist"
https://on.rt.com/aa8g

Tyler Durden on "Smoking Gun? Chinese Scientist Finds "Killer Coronavirus Probably 
Originated From A Laboratory In Wuhan""
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/smoking-gun-chinese-scientist-finds-killer-coronavirus-probably-originated-laboratory-wuhan






Diana Lenik on "Bar polls are not credible"
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-editor/letter-to-the-editor-bar-polls-are-not-credible/article_b2d04c9d-39fc-5329-b478-597a02a2d9fb.html

Lisa Lehrer on "Was It Always Going to Be the Last Men Standing?"
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/us/politics/women-voters-democratic-candidates.html

Matt Bruenig on "Comparing Warren?s and Sanders?s Child Care Proposals"
https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2020/02/28/comparing-warrens-and-sanderss-child-care-proposals/

Michelle Goldberg on "The Case for Elizabeth Warren"
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/opinion/sunday/elizabeth-warren-2020.html

Leonard Pitts, Jr. on "Sanders? most rabid fans on the left no improvement over 
Trump?s on the right"
https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article240630207.html

Rebecca Solnit on "The Harvey Weinstein Verdict Is a Watershed ? and a Warning"
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/opinion/sunday/harvey-weinstein-verdict.html


Politico on "Coming to a podcast near you: Hillary Clinton"
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/27/hillary-clinton-podcast-118024
https://archive.md/qlPrn

Benjamin Studebaker & Aimee Terese's show "What's Left?"
https://soundcloud.com/whatisleftpod/ -- list of recent episodes
https://twitter.com/whatisleftpod -- Twitter account
https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:595199712/sounds.rss -- RSS feed

Doug Henwood's show "Behind the News"
RSS feed: http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/radio-feed.php

Henwood interviews Yasha Levine
http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/RadioArchive/2020/20_02_13.mp3




Anton Troianovski on "As Bernie Sanders Pushed for Closer Ties, Soviet Union Spotted 
Opportunity"
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/world/europe/bernie-sanders-soviet-russia.html




Mike Masnick on "Court Explains 1st Amendment To Tulsi Gabbard In Dismissing Her 
Ridiculous Lawsuit Against Google"
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200304/15274544035/court-explains-1st-amendment-to-tulsi-gabbard-dismissing-her-ridiculous-lawsuit-against-google.shtml




Leonard Pitts Jr. on "The swarming behavior of Sanders' voters"
https://www.arcamax.com/politics/fromtheleft/leonardpittsjr/s-2331404

All pages on the wsws.org site mentioning "1619 project"
https://www.wsws.org/en/search.html?sectionId=&maxResults=100&phrase=1619+project&submit=Search

Black Agenda Report
https://www.blackagendareport.com/

Black Agenda Report on Ta-Nehisi Coates
https://blackagendareport.com/index.php/node/25092
https://blackagendareport.com/content/ta-nehisi-coates-blackwashing-reparations-brand-and-last-refuge-scoundrels

Bruce Dixon, in his own words
https://blackagendareport.com/bruce-dixon-his-own-words

Doug Henwood's interview with Margaret Kimberley
http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/RadioArchive/2020/20_02_06.mp3

Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKVCo6aEEwg -- RT's "Renegade Inc." 
interview with Margaret Kimberley




Jeffrey St. Clair on "Roaming Charges: Super Tuesday at Manzanar"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/06/roaming-charges-super-tuesday-at-manzanar/

Brian Gaines on "Can anyone beat Bernie?"
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/can-anyone-beat-bernie/article_da3020bc-eda9-5479-9b11-6415a162d21d.html




Pepe Escobar on "No Weapon Left Behind - The American Hybrid War On China"
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/02/21/no-weapon-left-behind-the-american-hybrid-war-on-china/
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-no-weapon-left-behind-american-hybrid-war-china
https://www.unz.com/pescobar/no-weapon-left-behind-the-american-hybrid-war-on-china/
https://thesaker.is/no-weapon-left-behind-the-american-hybrid-war-on-china/




Notes from J.B. Nicholson
https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2020-March/052010.html
https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace/2020-March/015767.html

-J

From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sat Mar  7 01:35:53 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen)
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2020 17:35:53 -0800
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Russia/Turkey-Syria ceasefire
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From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Sat Mar  7 01:48:03 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2020 19:48:03 -0600
Subject: [Peace] Anti-war demo, Sat. 7 March, 2-4pm, in downtown Champaign
Message-ID: <9CC7E4DE-AD73-4E74-AA5E-9A350466E244@newsfromneptune.com>

[Flyer to distributed at AWARE?s regular anti-war demonstration, Sat. 7 March, 2-4pm, in downtown Champaign]
 
Why is the presidential campaign ignoring America?s war-making around the world?

The U.S. media (owned by large corporations) continue to tell us how terrible President Trump is, but that is a way to avoid talking about how terrible U.S. government war-making is - recently in Venezuela and Bolivia, as well as Afghanistan and Syria - and now Iraq and Iran.

And in regard to killing people around the world, the Trump administration?s policy seems little different from that of the Obama administration - for all of President Trump?s assertions that he wants to end the Obama-Clinton wars.

President Obama inherited two shameful wars from the Bush administration (in Afghanistan and Iraq): he increased the number to eight (attacking Libya, Pakistan, the Philippines, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen as well) and became the first U.S. president ever to be at war throughout two terms. Not even presidents Roosevelt (WWII), Wilson (WWI), or Lincoln (Civil War) did that. 

As Barack Obama said in 2012, after ordering drone assassinations of American citizens, including minors (purposely),  ?Turns out I?m really good at killing people; didn?t know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.? 

While ?covering sin with smooth names,? Obama  continued America?s longest-standing foreign policy - attempting to prevent the integration of Eurasia, for fear that it would interfere with the U.S. elite?s economic exploitation of the rest of the world - by American war provocations against Russia and China, from Ukraine to the South China Sea.

Trump, after criticizing Obama?s war-making, has largely continued it - in part at least because he is under pressure from the ?deep state? to maintain the traditional US foreign policy of retarding the economic development of Russia and China - and their connections in southwest Asia.

Since the end of World War II,  the U.S. has killed more than 20 million people in wars (Korea, Vietnam, Latin America, Mideast, and elsewhere) designed to destroy challenges to the economic hegemony the U.S. obtained as the only major country largely undamaged by World War II. (Russia lost 27 million people in defeating Naziism; U.S. losses in WWII totaled about a half million people.) 

That is why today international polls show that the U.S. is the most feared government in the world - not China, Russia, Iran, or Israel. The rest of the world recognizes that the U.S. government remains what Martin Luther King called it long ago: ?the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.? 
~~~
With other peace groups around the world, we call upon our president and government 
	(a) to close the thousand U.S. military bases on foreign soil (most encircling Russia and China), 
	(b) to bring all U.S. troops (and weapons) home, and 
	(c) to provide social supports - including free medical care, education, and a universal basic income - for Americans, who have been made poorer by generations of our government?s wars.
~~~
In Illinois, send your opinion to your local representatives in Congress--
	~ Senator Dick Durbin: <https://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/email>
	~ Sen. Tammy Duckworth: <https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/content/contact-senator>
	~ Representative Rodney Davis: <https://rodneydavis.house.gov/contact/>
~~~
This flyer is produced by members & friends of AWARE, the ?Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort?
of Champaign-Urbana <https://www.facebook.com/groups/305897426305/>.
The TV program ?AWARE on the Air,? a local discussion of war news,
is on Urbana Public Television, Tuesdays at 10pm (& YouTube).

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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sat Mar  7 03:40:26 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen)
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2020 19:40:26 -0800
Subject: [Peace] News from Neptune #453 notes
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Quite a good and informative program tonight.

Carl: Though I?ve read most of Prof. Francis Boyle?s articles related to the Corona Virus, I had not seen the one in the Asia Times, a very anti-China publishing apparatus, with the exclusion of Pepe Escobar. It differs little from that which I?ve seen elsewhere. The Indian rag would of course as the US proxy in Asia, make such accusations. 

Francis makes it clear the virus, if a biowarfare weapon was created in the US, in one of our 400 laboratories specializing in chemical weapons. 

Your coverage was done well.
 
How China acquired the virus? Purchased or stolen, I believe to be irrelevant as I?m speculating that the Chinese, always keenly aware of what the USG is producing in their efforts to contain, control or annihilate China, likely acquired it to study and either reproduce as a defense weapon, as a mutual self destruct mechanism, or to create a vaccine/cure.
However, accidents happen and that is what Francis has been attempting to warn us for some years now in relation to US biowarfare viruses being created here. 

There has been speculation by Chinese that the US deliberately set it off in China during war games in November, I question that assertion. I didn?t know we did war games in/with China.

The US can?t claim to be working on a vaccine or cure, given we have defunded the CDC, and other health institutions, allowing the private pharma cos. to now profit from what could be devastating. The need for Medicare4All is becoming more apparent than ever. 

The timing couldn?t be better, when the stock market is/has been on the verge of collapsing the economy for some time now, we have our scapegoat.


 

> On Mar 6, 2020, at 17:07, J.B. Nicholson via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> News from Neptune #453
> Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryb1J8oRliQ
> A "U.S. Biowarfare?" episode
> 
> A list of links to items referenced on the show.
> 
> Rosa Luxemburg
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Luxemburg -- born 1871-03-05
> 
> Working Class History
> https://workingclasshistory.com/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Dave Makichuk on "China?s bioweapon spy story that never was"
> https://asiatimes.com/2020/02/chinas-bioweapon-spy-story-that-never-was/
> https://archive.md/wT6uy
> 
> GreatGameIndia on "Coronavirus Bioweapon ? How China Stole Coronavirus From Canada And Weaponized It"
> https://greatgameindia.com/coronavirus-bioweapon/
> 
> Lance Welton on "IT?S OFFICIAL: Chinese Scientists Find Genetic Explanation For Coronavirus Discriminating By Race"
> https://vdare.com/articles/it-s-official-chinese-scientists-find-genetic-explanation-for-coronavirus-discriminating-by-race
> 
> RT on "ZeroHedge banned from Twitter after BuzzFeed accuses it of coronavirus conspiracy and ?doxxing? a Chinese scientist"
> https://on.rt.com/aa8g
> 
> Tyler Durden on "Smoking Gun? Chinese Scientist Finds "Killer Coronavirus Probably Originated From A Laboratory In Wuhan""
> https://www.zerohedge.com/health/smoking-gun-chinese-scientist-finds-killer-coronavirus-probably-originated-laboratory-wuhan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Diana Lenik on "Bar polls are not credible"
> https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-editor/letter-to-the-editor-bar-polls-are-not-credible/article_b2d04c9d-39fc-5329-b478-597a02a2d9fb.html
> 
> Lisa Lehrer on "Was It Always Going to Be the Last Men Standing?"
> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/us/politics/women-voters-democratic-candidates.html
> 
> Matt Bruenig on "Comparing Warren?s and Sanders?s Child Care Proposals"
> https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2020/02/28/comparing-warrens-and-sanderss-child-care-proposals/
> 
> Michelle Goldberg on "The Case for Elizabeth Warren"
> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/opinion/sunday/elizabeth-warren-2020.html
> 
> Leonard Pitts, Jr. on "Sanders? most rabid fans on the left no improvement over Trump?s on the right"
> https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article240630207.html
> 
> Rebecca Solnit on "The Harvey Weinstein Verdict Is a Watershed ? and a Warning"
> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/opinion/sunday/harvey-weinstein-verdict.html
> 
> 
> Politico on "Coming to a podcast near you: Hillary Clinton"
> https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/27/hillary-clinton-podcast-118024
> https://archive.md/qlPrn
> 
> Benjamin Studebaker & Aimee Terese's show "What's Left?"
> https://soundcloud.com/whatisleftpod/ -- list of recent episodes
> https://twitter.com/whatisleftpod -- Twitter account
> https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:595199712/sounds.rss -- RSS feed
> 
> Doug Henwood's show "Behind the News"
> RSS feed: http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/radio-feed.php
> 
> Henwood interviews Yasha Levine
> http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/RadioArchive/2020/20_02_13.mp3
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Anton Troianovski on "As Bernie Sanders Pushed for Closer Ties, Soviet Union Spotted Opportunity"
> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/05/world/europe/bernie-sanders-soviet-russia.html
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Mike Masnick on "Court Explains 1st Amendment To Tulsi Gabbard In Dismissing Her Ridiculous Lawsuit Against Google"
> https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200304/15274544035/court-explains-1st-amendment-to-tulsi-gabbard-dismissing-her-ridiculous-lawsuit-against-google.shtml
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Leonard Pitts Jr. on "The swarming behavior of Sanders' voters"
> https://www.arcamax.com/politics/fromtheleft/leonardpittsjr/s-2331404
> 
> All pages on the wsws.org site mentioning "1619 project"
> https://www.wsws.org/en/search.html?sectionId=&maxResults=100&phrase=1619+project&submit=Search
> 
> Black Agenda Report
> https://www.blackagendareport.com/
> 
> Black Agenda Report on Ta-Nehisi Coates
> https://blackagendareport.com/index.php/node/25092
> https://blackagendareport.com/content/ta-nehisi-coates-blackwashing-reparations-brand-and-last-refuge-scoundrels
> 
> Bruce Dixon, in his own words
> https://blackagendareport.com/bruce-dixon-his-own-words
> 
> Doug Henwood's interview with Margaret Kimberley
> http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/RadioArchive/2020/20_02_06.mp3
> 
> Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKVCo6aEEwg -- RT's "Renegade Inc." interview with Margaret Kimberley
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Jeffrey St. Clair on "Roaming Charges: Super Tuesday at Manzanar"
> https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/06/roaming-charges-super-tuesday-at-manzanar/
> 
> Brian Gaines on "Can anyone beat Bernie?"
> https://www.news-gazette.com/news/can-anyone-beat-bernie/article_da3020bc-eda9-5479-9b11-6415a162d21d.html
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Pepe Escobar on "No Weapon Left Behind - The American Hybrid War On China"
> https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/02/21/no-weapon-left-behind-the-american-hybrid-war-on-china/
> https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-no-weapon-left-behind-american-hybrid-war-china
> https://www.unz.com/pescobar/no-weapon-left-behind-the-american-hybrid-war-on-china/
> https://thesaker.is/no-weapon-left-behind-the-american-hybrid-war-on-china/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Notes from J.B. Nicholson
> https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2020-March/052010.html
> https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace/2020-March/015767.html
> 
> -J
> _______________________________________________
> Peace mailing list
> Peace at lists.chambana.net
> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace


From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sat Mar  7 12:51:58 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 04:51:58 -0800
Subject: [Peace] Answer Coalition Demo. on Mar. 21st. US OUT OF THE MIDDLE
 EAST!
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SAT, MAR 21 AT 4 PM CDT
Global Days of Protest - U.S. troops out of Iraq now! <https://www.facebook.com/events/202114400886119/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%2222%22%2C%22feed_story_type%22%3A%2222%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22%5B%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22timeline%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22main_list%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A%5B%5D%7D%5D%22%7D>The Iraqi parliament voted unanimously to demand that U.S. troops leave Iraq. Millions of Iraqis have taken to the streets demanding that the occupation of their country end. Donald Trump has refused to leave and threatened to seize Iraqi's oil revenues if the Iraqi government follows through on its demands. 17 years ago the U.S. illegally carried out a war of aggression against Iraq based on a lie. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died. Tens of thousands of American soldiers either died or suffered life changing injuries.

The occupation of Iraq must end immediately! We are also demanding an end to economic sanctions directed against the people of Iran, Iraq and elsewhere. Join us at West Side Park in Champaign, Illinois on the 17th anniversary of the U.S. occupation of Iraq to demand:

U.S. Troops Out of Iraq NOW!

End Sanctions on Iran, U.S. Out of the Middle East!

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From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 04:51:58 -0800
Subject: [Peace] Answer Coalition Demo. on Mar. 21st. US OUT OF THE MIDDLE
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SAT, MAR 21 AT 4 PM CDT
Global Days of Protest - U.S. troops out of Iraq now! <https://www.facebook.com/events/202114400886119/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%2222%22%2C%22feed_story_type%22%3A%2222%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22%5B%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22timeline%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22main_list%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A%5B%5D%7D%5D%22%7D>The Iraqi parliament voted unanimously to demand that U.S. troops leave Iraq. Millions of Iraqis have taken to the streets demanding that the occupation of their country end. Donald Trump has refused to leave and threatened to seize Iraqi's oil revenues if the Iraqi government follows through on its demands. 17 years ago the U.S. illegally carried out a war of aggression against Iraq based on a lie. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died. Tens of thousands of American soldiers either died or suffered life changing injuries.

The occupation of Iraq must end immediately! We are also demanding an end to economic sanctions directed against the people of Iran, Iraq and elsewhere. Join us at West Side Park in Champaign, Illinois on the 17th anniversary of the U.S. occupation of Iraq to demand:

U.S. Troops Out of Iraq NOW!

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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sat Mar  7 13:12:05 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen)
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 05:12:05 -0800
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: U.S. Biowarfare Programs
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> U.S. Biowarfare Programs :
> 
> America?s $100-billion Germ Warfare
> 
> Industry a ?Criminal Enterprise,?
> 
> Author of U.S. Biowarfare Act Says
> 
> By Sherwood Ross
> 
>  
> 
> The American legal authority who in 1989 drafted the law Congress enacted to comply with the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention says the U.S. today [October 11, 2015] is in flagrant violation of that Convention.
> 
>  
> 
> "Since Sept. 11, 2001, we have spent somewhere in the area of $100 billion" on offensive biological warfare, charges Professor Francis Boyle of the University of Illinois, Champaign. 
> 
>  
> 
> Boyle said an estimated 13,000 "death scientists" in 400 laboratories in the U.S. and abroad, are employed making new strains of offensive killer germs that will be resistant to vaccines. 
> 
>  
> 
> For example, Dr. Yoshihiro Kawaoka's group at the University of Wisconsin has found a way to increase the toxicity of the flu virus by 200 times! Boyle says Kawaoka is "the same death scientist who resurrected the genocidal Spanish Flu virus for the Pentagon for offensive biowarfare purposes."
> 
>  
> 
> As for fighting flu, the National Institutes of Health in 2006, a typical year, got only $120 million from Congress to fight flu, which kills an estimated 36,000 Americans annually.  By contrast, Congress gave NIH $1.76 billion for "biodefense," even though the anthrax outbreak in 2001 killed just five persons.
> 
>  
> 
> "These distorted budgetary allocations," (spending 15 times as much for germ warfare as for fighting flu) demonstrate that the priority here is not the promotion of the public health of American citizens but rather to further develop the U.S. offensive biowarfare industry that will someday 'blowback' upon the American people with a catastrophic pandemic," Boyle said.
> 
>  
> 
> He went on to say the Pentagon and Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) are "ready, willing, and able to launch biowarfare when it suits their interests?They have a super-weapons-grade anthrax that they already used against us in October, 2001."
> 
>  
> 
> Boyle here was referring to the anthrax pathogens mailed to two U.S. Senators (Tom Daschle, of South Dakota and Patrick Leahy, of Vermont) and others after 9/11 that were traced back to the Government's biowarfare lab at Fort Detrick, Md.
> 
>  
> 
> Boyle's remarks came in response to written questions from Sherwood Ross, a Miami, Fla.-based columnist. Asked if the recent outbreaks of Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia could be from U.S. Government-backed facilities, Boyle replied: 
> 
>  
> 
> "These Ebola vaccines were experimental U.S. biowarfare vaccines that were being tested out in West Africa. It was a result of testing out of the U.S. biowarfare vaccines at our lab in Kenema, Sierra Leone, that created the West African Ebola pandemic in the first place." 
> 
>  
> 
> Boyle warned that the Galveston National Laboratory in Texas, a high-containment research lab, has been seeking for potential biowarfare agents in the wild in other parts of the world "in order to turn them into biological weapons."
> 
>  
> 
> He said, "They should shut down Galveston as an ongoing criminal enterprise along the lines of the S.S. and the Gestapo -- except that Galveston is far more dangerous to humanity than Hitler's death squads ever were." 
> 
>  
> 
> Boyle added, "American universities have a long history of willingly permitting their research agenda, researchers, institutes, and laboratories to be co-opted, corrupted, and perverted by the the Pentagon and the C.I.A. into death science. These include Wisconsin, North Carolina, Boston U., Harvard, M.I.T., Tulane, University of Chicago, and my own University of Illinois, as well as many others."
> 
>  
> 
> (Sherwood Ross formerly reported for the Chicago Daily News and was a columnist for UPI (Magazines In Review) and Reuters (Workplace.)
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> BOYLE CHARGES U.S. GERM WARFARE
> 
> PROGRAM IS "CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE"
> 
>  
> 
> Q. AND A. WITH FRANCIS A. BOYLE ON BIOWARFARE
> 
>  
> 
> Francis A. Boyle is a leading American professor, practitioner and advocate of international law. He was responsible for drafting the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 (BWATA), the American implementing legislation for the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. His BWATA was passed unanimously by both Houses of the United States Congress and signed into law by President George Bush Sr. The story is told in his book Biowarfare and Terrorism (Clarity Press: 2005). He served on the Board of Directors of Amnesty International USA (1988-1992), and represented Bosnia-Herzegovina at the World Court. Professor Boyle teaches international law at the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign. He holds a Doctor of Law Magna Cum Laude as well as a Ph.D. in Political Science, both from Harvard University.
> 
>  
> 
> Q: To get some idea of the magnitude of U.S. biological warfare research involving deadly diseases now going forward, the Federal government is said to be funding 400 laboratories globally. These labs purportedly are concocting new strains of lethal microbes for which there is no cure. Right off the bat, I'd like to ask you, "Is this a criminal enterprise whose dimensions are being concealed from the American public?" 
> 
>  
> 
> A: Of course it is! Since September 11, 2001, we have spent somewhere in the area approaching $100 billion on biological warfare. Effectively we now have an Offensive Biological Warfare Industry in this country that violates the Biological Weapons Convention and my Biological Weapons Anti-terrorism Act of 1989. We have reconstructed the Offensive Biological Warfare Industry that we had deployed in this county before its prohibition by the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972 that was described by Sy Hersh in his groundbreaking expos? of it in his book Chemical & Biological Warfare: America?s Hidden Arsenal (Bobbs-Merrill: 1968). Our putative adversaries around the world such as Russia and China have undoubtedly reached the same conclusions I have derived from the same open and public sources, and have responded in kind. So what the world now witnesses is an all-out offensive biological warfare arms race among the major military powers of the world: United States, Russia, Britain, France, China, Israel, inter alia. The Biological Weapons Convention has become the proverbial ?mere scrap of paper.? But my BWATA still remains the law of the land in the United States with a penalty of life-in-prison for violators. That is why the self-styled ?synthetic biologists? proposed to repeal my BWATA so that they can use Synthetic Biology to manufacture new classes of biological weapons more efficiently.
> 
>  
> 
> Q: Exactly what is biowarfare?
> 
>  
> 
> A: Biological warfare involves the use of living organisms for military purposes. Such weapons can be viral, bacterial, and fungal, among other forms, and can be spread over a large geographic terrain by wind, water, insect, animal, or human transmission. Toxins---living organisms such as fungi---are also used.
> 
>  
> 
> Q: Which are the most dangerous?
> 
>  
> 
> A: Today several U.S.G. labs are at work on Anthrax, Tularemia, Plague, Ebola, Botulism, and the genocidal Spanish Flu virus. 
> 
>  
> 
> Q: What do they do with these pathogens?
> 
>  
> 
> A: Using DNA genetic engineering, U.S. death scientists are concocting new strains of lethal microbes for which there are no cures. Bacteria, for example, can be made resistant to vaccines, made more virulent, easier to spread, and harder to eradicate. Right now U.S. death scientists are scouring the biosphere around the world to locate any bioagent in nature that they can exploit and pervert into offensive biowarfare purposes.
> 
>  
> 
> Q: USA Today has done some fine reporting on this subject. Among other things, their reporters have exposed massive incidents of lax security conditions at U.S.G. labs and university labs funded by U.S.G. What might the consequences be of this disregard for safety?
> 
>  
> 
> A: This is a biocatastrophe waiting to happen here in the United States. In fact it has already happened in West Africa with the Ebola pandemic there. It is only a matter of time before we have a similar pandemic at home here caused by U.S. biowarfare programs. In this regard you should watch the excellent award-winning documentary by Coen & Nadler entitled Anthrax-War (Transformer Films: 2009) in which I appear and served as a consultant on.
> 
>  
> 
> Q: Recently, 13 cases of plague were reported in Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, New Mexico, Oregon and Utah, resulting in three deaths. Could these deadly plague pathogens (infectious agents) have come from the U.S. government's (U.S.G.) germ warfare labs? 
> 
>  
> 
> A: I suspect they might have. But proving it is another matter. Any time you see some mysterious and widespread outbreak of an exotic disease around the country, you have to factor into the analytical explanatory equation that it could be the result of some illegal U.S. biowarfare program.
> 
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> 
> Q: Is it a fact, as alleged, that the Anthrax pathogens mailed to two U.S. Senators and others after 9/11 trace back to the U.S.G. biowarfare lab at Ft. Detrick, Md.? You have written that Senators Daschle and Leahy, both Democrats, had opposed the Patriot Act, which gives U.S.G. unprecedented powers and abolishes Americans' traditional personal liberties. If the Anthrax was sent by the Pentagon, was it to intimidate the Senators?
> 
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> 
> A: Yes! I have written about this in my book Biowarfare and Terrorism (Clarity Press: 2005). More recently my friend and colleague Professor Graeme MacQueen from McMaster University in Canada has also written about this in his book The 2001 Anthrax Deception (Clarity Press: 2014). You are free to read these two books, draw your own conclusions, and see if you agree with us. Over the years there are numerous interviews I have given on this matter that you can obtain by Googling my name and adding the word ?anthrax? to their search engine. The twin purposes of these October 2001 anthrax attacks were (1) to scaremonger the American People and Congress into adopting the totalitarian and Orwellian USA Patriot Act and (2) to wage an offensive war of aggression against Iraq. As President George Bush Jr. proudly boasted: ?Mission accomplished!? -- on both counts.
> 
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> Q: Recently, there have been outbreaks of Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia. You have raised the possibility that U.S.G. may be illegally experimenting with these diseases on citizens of those African nations. Could you please elaborate?
> 
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> A: These Ebola vaccines were experimental U.S. biowarfare vaccines that were being tested out in West Africa. It was a result of testing out of the U.S. biowarfare vaccines at our lab in Kenema, Sierra Leone, that created the West African Ebola pandemic in the first place. I have given numerous interviews to support my conclusion here in more detail. These can be located by Googling my name and adding the word ?Ebola? to their search engine.
> 
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> 
> Q: Is such germ warfare development work illegal under the BWC Treaty of 1972? (Dr. Boyle was the American attorney who wrote the implementing legislation for the U.S. that passed Congress without a single negative vote.)
> 
>  
> 
> A: Yes. The U.S. is a party to the 1972 Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention which bans "development, production, stockpiling and use of microbes or their poisonous products except in amounts necessary for protective and peaceful research?" Colonel David Huxsoll, Commander of the Army's Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases, has admitted that offensive research is indistinguishable from defensive research. 
> 
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> 
> Q: Although Russia said it scrapped its germ warfare program after the Communists lost power in 1991, the U.S. budget for this purpose has increased. Are there any countries or terrorist groups that might realistically attack the U.S. with such weapons? One critic has said .U.S.G.'s biowarfare push resembles "a dog chasing its own tail."
> 
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> 
> A: The truth of the matter is that the United States government has been pursuing the development of an offensive biowarfare program and industry since the Reagan administration and his Neoconservatives came to power in 1981. I set forth this earlier biowarfare documentation on Reagan and his Neo-Cons in my previous book The Future of International Law and American Foreign Policy (Transnational Publishers Inc.: 1989), Chapter 8, ?The Legal Distortions Behind the Reagan Administration?s Chemical and Biological Warfare Buildup.? Interestingly enough, the Department of Defense itself reprinted my study as Current News: Special Edition: CHEMICAL WEAPONS, NO. 1586 (28 May 1987) and distributed it to thousands of high-level D.O.D. civilian and military officials all over the world.
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> Q: It sounds fantastic, I know, but scientists once paid by the U.S.G. to cure cancer are now being paid to develop deadlier strains of anthrax, dengue, Japanese encephalitis, tularemia, Q fever, and other dread diseases. Comment? 
> 
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> A: On the relationship between cancer research and bioweapons you should have a look at the book by Dr. Len Horowitz, Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola ? Nature, Accident, or Intentional? (Tetrahedron Inc. 1996).
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> 
> Q: You have written that Dr. Yoshihiro Kawaoka's group at the University of Wisconsin has found a way to increase the toxicity of flu virus by 200 times. What is the purpose of this horrible-sounding research and why should U.W. support it?
> 
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> 
> A: This is the same U.S. death scientist who resurrected the genocidal Spanish Flu virus for the Pentagon for offensive biowarfare purposes. Like all U.S. universities, Bucky Badger U. gets a cut out of all research funds brought in from the outside. Here at Chief Illiniwak University they publicly admitted that they take 51 cents out of every research $1 Buck brought in from the outside and charge it off to ?overhead.? At most American Universities today, money talks and principles walk. My Disalma Mater Harvard is no better, no worse, and no different.
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> Q: During the 1980-88 Iraq-Iran war, the Reagan White House okayed the Pentagon's sale of weapons-specific biological agents and poison gas to Iraq that Saddam Hussein used against Iran and his own Kurdish minority? At least 5,000 Kurds were gassed. And, according to Time magazine of Jan. 20, 2014, the CIA reckoned Iran suffered 50,000 deaths. Doesn't this prove the White House has used biological agents offensively? 
> 
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> A: Certainly chemical weapons were used illegally. In addition, the Reagan administration shipped weapons-specific biowarfare agents to Saddam Hussein in Iraq in the hope and expectation that he would weaponize them and use them against Iran. He did weaponize them. So far I have not seen evidence that he used bioweapons against Iran or the Kurds. But these biowarfare weapons that Saddam Hussein produced thanks to Reagan and his Neo-Cons did ?blowback? upon U.S. armed forces when they invaded Iraq in 1991. This ?blowback? played a causative role in the Gulf War Syndrome that afflicted U.S. soldiers who participated in Gulf War I under President Bush Sr. I discuss this in my book Destroying World Order (Clarity Press: 2004) and in the British TV documentary The Dirty War (1993) produced by and shown on Britain?s Independent Television Network TV4 that I consulted on and appear in.
> 
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> Q: You have pointed out that the Galveston National Laboratory in Texas, a high-containment research lab, admits to seeking for potential biowarfare agents in the wild in other parts of the world "in order to turn them into biological weapons."
> 
>  
> 
> A: Right! They should shut down Galveston as an ongoing criminal enterprise along the lines of the S.S. and the Gestapo -- except that Galveston is far more dangerous to humanity than Hitler's death squads ever were. They say their work with Ebola is for a vaccine, but the same technology can also be weaponized. Galveston is working to aerosolize Ebola just as Ft. Detrick worked to aerosolize Anthrax. Aerosolization of a biowarfare agent is always the tip-off to the development of a weapon to be delivered by air to human beings who will breathe it in. Ft. Detrick should be shut down as well because it too is an ongoing criminal enterprise.
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> Q: Besides Ft. Detrick and Galveston, are there any other biowarfare laboratories you believe should be closed?
> 
>  
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> A: All of them. Since 1981, the Pentagon has been gearing up to fight and ?win? biological warfare without prior public knowledge and review. What's more, American universities have a long history of willingly permitting their research agenda, researchers, institutes, and laboratories to be co-opted, corrupted, and perverted by the Pentagon and the C.I.A. into death science. These include Wisconsin, North Carolina, Boston U., Harvard, M.I.T., Tulane, University of Chicago, and my own University of Illinois as well as many others.
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> Q: Biological warfare development requires highly sophisticated technology and safe laboratories. No so-called "terrorist" group is known to possess anything like the requisite facilities. Besides America, what countries have operative biowarfare labs? 
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> 
> A: U.S., U.K., Russia, France, China, Israel, for sure. There are several other countries that the U.S. has established satellite biowarfare labs in.
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>  
> 
> Q: Is there any published data on U.S.G.'s expenditures for biowarfare since 9/11? I assume it has taken off like other Pentagon outlays.
> 
>  
> 
> A: Yes, there are published figures on this in the open record. The last time I did a calculation from them the sum was approaching $100 billion. By comparison, in 2012 Dollars we spent $30 Billion on the Manhattan Project to develop the atom bombs that were then used to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki. You can see my book The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence (Clarity Press: 2002), Chapter 2, ?The Lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.? So that historical precedent and analogy is a pretty good indication that the U.S. Offensive Biowarfare Industry is intended for use on human beings somewhere. The momentum behind the money propels inexorably towards use of the weapons.
> 
>  
> 
> Q: Does the recent Pentagon mail-out of live anthrax virus to 86 laboratories here and to 7 nations abroad, bear out your prior criticism of U.S.G.'s careless handling of these pathogens?
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>  
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> A: Of course. But I don?t believe there was anything ?careless? or ?accidental? about any of this. The Pentagon knows exactly what they are doing. They are not ?incompetent? at the Pentagon. This was deliberate. Just like the anthrax attacks of October 2001 were deliberate.
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> Q: You contend that the American pharmaceutical industry and the World Health Organization (WHO) are dumping dangerous vaccines in West Africa where the publics are already suffering from Ebola. Why would WHO get involved in this? Can you elaborate?
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> A: First, to make money. WHO is a front organization for BIG PHARMA. Second, to reduce the numbers of Black West Africans -- genocide.
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>  
> 
> Q: It's been estimated that 36,000 Americans are dying every year from flu. By contrast, only five Americans died from an Anthrax attack and that was back in 2001. Yet, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2006, a typical fiscal year, received only $120 million from Congress to fight flu but $1.76 billion for "biodefense"? 
> 
>  
> 
> A: Right! These distorted budgetary allocations demonstrate that the priority here is not the promotion of the Public Health of American citizens but rather to further develop the U.S. Offensive Biowarfare Industry that will someday ?blowback? upon the American People with a catastrophic pandemic.
> 
>  
> 
> Q: Scientists who oppose the Pentagon's activity insist that germ-warfare defense is clearly impractical; that every person would have to be vaccinated against every harmful biological agent. Since that likely is clearly impossible isn't the only application of a defensive development in conjunction with offensive use?
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> 
> A: We are currently stockpiling vaccines to immunize our Civilian and Military Leadership Elites for if and when they decide to wage offensive biowarfare. Pace the Constitution, ?We the People of the United States? will have to fend for ourselves as best we can with our grossly underfunded and inadequate public health services that have been deliberately starved of money in order to feed the U.S. Offensive Biowarfare Industry Beast.
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> Q: Recently, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told a St. Louis audience of government employees, "You're some of the nation's most innovative and inventive physicists, chemists, and geneticists?molecular biologists," etc. Yes, indeed. How many employees does the Pentagon now have in germ warfare work and how much is it costing the American people?
> 
>  
> 
> A: Overall I have read a figure that there about 13,000 death scientists in America today doing dirty biowarfare work who perversely call themselves ?life scientists.? Doctor Mengele would be proud of them all! As Doctor Strangelove said: ?Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!? Seventy years after World War II ended the Nazis have won.
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> 
> Q: Given all of the above, does it appear conceivable to you the Pentagon is developing a massive germ warfare weapon as a means of intimidating the world? After all, it has positioned itself in about 900 bases around the globe from which it can, and does, strike using conventional weapons, and it has used illegal radioactive ammunition in its war against Iraq.
> 
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> 
> A: Of course. But not just intimidation. The Pentagon and the C.I.A. are ready, willing, and able to launch biowarfare when it suits their interests. They already attacked the American People and Congress and disabled our Republic with super-weapons-grade anthrax in October 2001. A fortiori they will do so again to foreign states and peoples when deemed convenient. Us too! They have a stockpile of that super-weapons-grade anthrax that they already used against us in October 2001.
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> Q: Thank you, Professor Francis Boyle.
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> A: Thanks so much for doing this interview.
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> Francis A. Boyle
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> 217-333-7954 (phone)
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From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Sat Mar  7 23:07:14 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 17:07:14 -0600
Subject: [Peace] AWARE demo
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ANTIWAR DEMO, SAT. 7 MAR., DOWNTOWN CHAMPAIGN

Doug and his flag, JM & the signs (in spite of a balky car), and three (desperately young!) PSL friends of Karen's joined a few grizzled AWAREists for today's regular demonstration to a surprisingly large crowd (because of the 'Unoffical' celebrations at the Little University Down the Street).

Thanks to all who came out. See you the first Saturday in April inshallah (unless all US troops are home).

?CGE

From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sun Mar  8 19:27:54 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen)
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2020 12:27:54 -0700
Subject: [Peace] Sunday morning rant
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>>  
>> A Biden supporter just suggested that Biden and Warren will likely be the Democratic ticket. I agree as Biden is the choice of the elite establishment to ensure their policy?s of impoverishing the masses goes unnoticed. Their form of imperialism is by way of interventions with the use of proxies, quietly using the CIA as usual, keeping Americans asleep as we continue to destroy through coups, mercenaries and sanctions, rather than bombing a respected leader of a foreign nation placing us on the brink of war. We can?t have anymore of that as it might wake up the masses and potentially create anti-war movements across the nation and endanger their power. 
>> This faction of the ruling elites, think strategically and long term, as they represent the oil and fossil fuel industries, banks, Wall Street, etc., as opposed to the current Trump Administration representing the other faction of the ruling elites known as the entrepreneurial class or bourgeoise who are focused on maximizing short term profits, weapons are one.  
>> 
>> Make no mistake they both represent the powers that be, who care nothing for those of the working class. They simply represent two separate factions, often referred to as the Establishment, the Ruling Elites, the Deep State, but basically the Capitalists who control capital, the centers of economic power, the means of production, with the goal of preserving capitalism and the existing financial order, and social peace as they don?t want instability. They also want to stop growth and maintain their control of the world. There are factions within the factions as they have differing interests, but the goals are the same, they don?t want socialism.
>> 
>> This friend, also predicted Warren would be the VP. I agree, no surprise there as she is female. Given the focus on gender and race rather than exploitation and class by most liberals, that should satisfy their requirements related to Identity, and she too is a puppet of Wall St., and the banks. Unfortunately, only white people given Warrens lies of being part native American have been exposed.
>> Anybody but Bernie is the mandate, who in spite of his poor choices on foreign policy supporting imperialism from time to time, because he challenges Wall St., the banks and for profit healthcare industry, on behalf of the working class.
> 
>> Karen Aram
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sun Mar  8 19:27:54 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen)
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2020 12:27:54 -0700
Subject: [Peace] Sunday morning rant
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>>  
>> A Biden supporter just suggested that Biden and Warren will likely be the Democratic ticket. I agree as Biden is the choice of the elite establishment to ensure their policy?s of impoverishing the masses goes unnoticed. Their form of imperialism is by way of interventions with the use of proxies, quietly using the CIA as usual, keeping Americans asleep as we continue to destroy through coups, mercenaries and sanctions, rather than bombing a respected leader of a foreign nation placing us on the brink of war. We can?t have anymore of that as it might wake up the masses and potentially create anti-war movements across the nation and endanger their power. 
>> This faction of the ruling elites, think strategically and long term, as they represent the oil and fossil fuel industries, banks, Wall Street, etc., as opposed to the current Trump Administration representing the other faction of the ruling elites known as the entrepreneurial class or bourgeoise who are focused on maximizing short term profits, weapons are one.  
>> 
>> Make no mistake they both represent the powers that be, who care nothing for those of the working class. They simply represent two separate factions, often referred to as the Establishment, the Ruling Elites, the Deep State, but basically the Capitalists who control capital, the centers of economic power, the means of production, with the goal of preserving capitalism and the existing financial order, and social peace as they don?t want instability. They also want to stop growth and maintain their control of the world. There are factions within the factions as they have differing interests, but the goals are the same, they don?t want socialism.
>> 
>> This friend, also predicted Warren would be the VP. I agree, no surprise there as she is female. Given the focus on gender and race rather than exploitation and class by most liberals, that should satisfy their requirements related to Identity, and she too is a puppet of Wall St., and the banks. Unfortunately, only white people given Warrens lies of being part native American have been exposed.
>> Anybody but Bernie is the mandate, who in spite of his poor choices on foreign policy supporting imperialism from time to time, because he challenges Wall St., the banks and for profit healthcare industry, on behalf of the working class.
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>> Karen Aram
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From deb.pdamerica at gmail.com  Mon Mar  9 12:21:47 2020
From: deb.pdamerica at gmail.com (Debra Schrishuhn)
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 07:21:47 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Sunday morning rant
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Good points, Karen, but Biden won't even go as far as picking Warren or
someone like her unless he receives continued pressure from the left. I
urge everyone to vote for Bernie Sanders in the upcoming Illinois primary
to keep Bernie's chances alive, to keep his voice in the national dialog,
and to keep pressure on Biden and other centrist candidates.

Deb


On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 2:28 PM Karen via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net>
wrote:

> A Biden supporter just suggested that Biden and Warren will likely be the
> Democratic ticket. I agree as Biden is the choice of the elite
> establishment to ensure their policy?s of impoverishing the masses goes
> unnoticed. Their form of imperialism is by way of interventions with the
> use of proxies, quietly using the CIA as usual, keeping Americans asleep as
> we continue to destroy through coups, mercenaries and sanctions, rather
> than bombing a respected leader of a foreign nation placing us on the brink
> of war. We can?t have anymore of that as it might wake up the masses and
> potentially create anti-war movements across the nation and endanger their
> power.
> This faction of the ruling elites, think strategically and long term, as
> they represent the oil and fossil fuel industries, banks, Wall Street,
> etc., as opposed to the current Trump Administration representing the other
> faction of the ruling elites known as the entrepreneurial class or
> bourgeoise who are focused on maximizing short term profits, weapons are
> one.
>
> Make no mistake they both represent the powers that be, who care nothing
> for those of the working class. They simply represent two separate
> factions, often referred to as the Establishment, the Ruling Elites, the
> Deep State, but basically the Capitalists who control capital, the centers
> of economic power, the means of production, with the goal of preserving
> capitalism and the existing financial order, and social peace as they don?t
> want instability. They also want to stop growth and maintain their control
> of the world. There are factions within the factions as they have differing
> interests, but the goals are the same, they don?t want socialism.
>
> This friend, also predicted Warren would be the VP. I agree, no surprise
> there as she is female. Given the focus on gender and race rather than
> exploitation and class by most liberals, that should satisfy their
> requirements related to Identity, and she too is a puppet of Wall St., and
> the banks. Unfortunately, only white people given Warrens lies of being
> part native American have been exposed.
> Anybody but Bernie is the mandate, who in spite of his poor choices on
> foreign policy supporting imperialism from time to time, because he
> challenges Wall St., the banks and for profit healthcare industry, on
> behalf of the working class.
>
>
> Karen Aram
>
>
>
>
>
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From deb.pdamerica at gmail.com  Mon Mar  9 12:21:47 2020
From: deb.pdamerica at gmail.com (Debra Schrishuhn)
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 07:21:47 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Sunday morning rant
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Good points, Karen, but Biden won't even go as far as picking Warren or
someone like her unless he receives continued pressure from the left. I
urge everyone to vote for Bernie Sanders in the upcoming Illinois primary
to keep Bernie's chances alive, to keep his voice in the national dialog,
and to keep pressure on Biden and other centrist candidates.

Deb


On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 2:28 PM Karen via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net>
wrote:

> A Biden supporter just suggested that Biden and Warren will likely be the
> Democratic ticket. I agree as Biden is the choice of the elite
> establishment to ensure their policy?s of impoverishing the masses goes
> unnoticed. Their form of imperialism is by way of interventions with the
> use of proxies, quietly using the CIA as usual, keeping Americans asleep as
> we continue to destroy through coups, mercenaries and sanctions, rather
> than bombing a respected leader of a foreign nation placing us on the brink
> of war. We can?t have anymore of that as it might wake up the masses and
> potentially create anti-war movements across the nation and endanger their
> power.
> This faction of the ruling elites, think strategically and long term, as
> they represent the oil and fossil fuel industries, banks, Wall Street,
> etc., as opposed to the current Trump Administration representing the other
> faction of the ruling elites known as the entrepreneurial class or
> bourgeoise who are focused on maximizing short term profits, weapons are
> one.
>
> Make no mistake they both represent the powers that be, who care nothing
> for those of the working class. They simply represent two separate
> factions, often referred to as the Establishment, the Ruling Elites, the
> Deep State, but basically the Capitalists who control capital, the centers
> of economic power, the means of production, with the goal of preserving
> capitalism and the existing financial order, and social peace as they don?t
> want instability. They also want to stop growth and maintain their control
> of the world. There are factions within the factions as they have differing
> interests, but the goals are the same, they don?t want socialism.
>
> This friend, also predicted Warren would be the VP. I agree, no surprise
> there as she is female. Given the focus on gender and race rather than
> exploitation and class by most liberals, that should satisfy their
> requirements related to Identity, and she too is a puppet of Wall St., and
> the banks. Unfortunately, only white people given Warrens lies of being
> part native American have been exposed.
> Anybody but Bernie is the mandate, who in spite of his poor choices on
> foreign policy supporting imperialism from time to time, because he
> challenges Wall St., the banks and for profit healthcare industry, on
> behalf of the working class.
>
>
> Karen Aram
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This is what Mark Weisbrot has to say about it. This information is important to get out to the public so people know the true history and agenda of Biden, in comparison to Bernie.
From the Real News Network:

This is a rush transcript and may contain errors. It will be updated.
Greg Wolpert: It?s The Real News Network. I?m Greg Wolpert in Baltimore. Now that the race for the Democratic nomination for president is down to mainly Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, a large part of the debate and the corporate media revolves around which candidate is more electable or more likely to win in the general election against president Trump. Here are two examples of the media chorus that emphasizes the electability issue.
Speaker 2: I wonder if voters have internalized some of Joe Biden?s electability around the threat that Donald Trump obviously feels from him. Donald Trump is so terrified of running into Joe Biden that he risked his entire presidency. He bet the farm on his whole presidency to kill him off politically.
Speaker 3: I think you saw hundreds and thousands of people coming out coast to coast, Democrats. And one thing ruled above all, they are not willing to roll the dice on the future of this country by wasting a vote.
Speaker 2: That?s right.
Speaker 3: They want to win. They want someone who can beat Donald Trump. And I think many of them feel strongly now that in Joe Biden they have that candidate.
Greg Wolpert: Joining me now to explore this electability question is Mark Weisbrot. He?s co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and author of the book Failed: What The Experts Got Wrong About The Global Economy.
Thanks for joining us again, Mark.
Mark Weisbrote: Thanks for having me Greg.
Greg Wolpert: So I think we can explore the electability question from three different angles. First, what the polls say. Second, the policies that each candidate supports. And third, what history tells us what happened in this similar situation.
Now, regarding the polls, they seem to be relatively inconclusive. That is with Biden ahead in some of them and Sanders ahead in others. So, let?s take a look at this rather from the perspective of issues.
In a previous interview, we already took a look at Biden?s stance on the war in Iraq where he was far more instrumental in making the Iraq war possible than he admits. Now there?s other issues of course, and so let?s focus on those. Key domestic issues for voters will no doubt be social security and Medicare.
There?s a large gap between the older and the younger generation in terms of who they support. 18 to 34 year olds support Sanders with 47%, and Biden only 13%. While among senior citizens, Biden leads Sanders by a margin of 25% to 11%.
So let?s start with social security, which is something you?ve looked at in quite detail. Who ought to be more electable on this issue? Sanders or Biden?
Mark Weisbrote: Well, there?s no doubt about that. I mean, Biden has a history of decades of supporting actual cuts to social security benefits, and that hasn?t really gotten out there enough, but I think it will. And so he?s very vulnerable for that.
And he has a healthcare plan, which does provide something that?s an expansion of the Obamacare, the ACA. And so it provides something, a little bit, some more subsidies for premium for most of the population, but it totally leaves out people over 65. And I?m glad you emphasized that demographic because that?s the demographic that really is not only pro Biden, but it?s the more conservative demographic of the Democratic voters.
And they really do turnout. In the 2018 elections, for example, if you look at where Democrats lost, they only lost in the older demographic, over 50. If you took them out, Democrats would?ve won the Senate and everything else.
So, this is a really important demographic in the election. And so Biden?s support here is a mile wide, but an inch deep, because as soon as people find out what he?s doing on healthcare? so he?s provided nothing, absolutely zero for people over 65 who get actual Medicare. And I think a lot of people don?t know that because they?re thinking, well, Medicare for all, that?s getting everybody what I already have.
But no, it?s actually much more than that. They don?t have dental care. And, you look at the data, a lot of senior citizens are losing teeth because they don?t have dental coverage and they don?t have eyeglasses covered. They don?t have hearing aids covered, they don?t have long-term care, and Biden provides them absolutely nothing.
So here?s healthcare reform, and it leaves out the over 65. There is one thing in there for long-term care, but it?s a non-refundable tax credit, so the vast majority of seniors wouldn?t be eligible for it.
So, there?s really nothing for them, and that?s going to be a scandal when that actually gets into the campaign, because that?s a really big thing. I mean, they?re going to realize that everybody at least is going to get some little bit from this healthcare reform and they?re getting nothing at all.
Greg Wolpert: Mm-hmm (affirmative). I just want to return quickly to the issue of social security now, I mean, why is it that Biden keeps talking about? and how recently has he been talking about cutting social security? Has his position remained the same on that? And what is Sander?s position on social security?
Mark Weisbrote: Yes. Well, Biden supported cutting cuts to social security, very significant cuts. At that time it was a cut in the cost of living allowance, and that was 2013. So it?s not what he did in 1995 and in ?84 also where he supported cuts, this was fairly recently. And, so he?s only changed his position now in this campaign where he now supports an expansion of benefits, but it?s nowhere near what Bernie Sanders is supporting, which is a strong expansion of benefits.
And they have just a whole different record going back. I mean, Bernie?s been in Congress since 1991, he?s been fighting to expand benefits when he had, maybe three people on his side, and Biden was on the other side. So there?s a long track record. I think that?s another thing that?s going to come out, because right now he can get away with it, nobody?s paying that close attention.
Now, it?s a head to head race between those two and people are going to see the differences. And that?s another real difference that?ll come out. I mean, Bernie, one of the reasons he?s popular is he?s authentic, he has this long track record. He?s been consistent for decades.
And when he talks to the voters, he doesn?t talk to them? he doesn?t even like to talk about himself at all. They?ll ask him a question about himself, even his religion, and he quickly says, ?I want to talk about the issues.? He?ll answer them because he has nothing to hide, but what most candidates have is the idea that voters can?t understand these things, and therefore I have to talk about my life and my upbringing and my uncle, what my grandfather said, and all the things that Biden likes to talk about.
He?s really addressing them on these issues. And that?s going to come out more and more, I think, in the weeks and months ahead.
Greg Wolpert: Now, what do you think are some of the other issues that Biden might be vulnerable on, or that SAnders could be vulnerable or strong on that would affect their ability to win in a race against Trump in November?
Mark Weisbrote: Well, I think trade is big, also. You mentioned the war, I think that?s also big, and we talked about that before. I mean Biden led the effort to give president George W. Bush permission from Congress, authority from Congress, I should say, to invade Iraq. And that?s a big thing that?ll come out also.
But, the trade issues are very big. If you look at? everybody knows Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, that?s where the electoral votes that gave Trump the election were won last time. And why did he win them? Well, one reason he won them is you look at those States, those were people hit very hard by the so-called trade agreements, I call them commercial agreements because they?re not really so much about trade, but they cost a lot of jobs.
We lost 5 million manufacturing jobs in the United States after 2000. Those voters, those swing voters, those were the ones that were most hit. In fact, you can even look at Trade Adjustment Assistance, which is a federal program that actually pays people who lost their jobs as a result of these commercial agreements. So you have to be certified. So it?s a small fraction of the people who really lost their job.
And you look at those three States and it?s vastly more than the margin that Trump won that gave him the election. And then you had the Trans-Pacific Partnership at that time, which unfortunately at that time, president Obama was going around the country campaigning for the TPP, and Hillary had campaigned, had been very strongly in favor of the TPP, and she changed her position for the election.
And that was a very big issue that Trump played upon. And it?s the only one he actually delivered on where he did reject the agreement, which is not clear at all would have happened if he hadn?t won.
So that?s, I think, going to be a major issue going forward. And those are the real swing voters. I mean, the biggest and most likely group of swing voters in the next election will be people who were negatively affected by those agreements, not only from lost jobs, but lower wages, greater job insecurity and everything else that came out of those agreements.
Greg Wolpert: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Well that?s actually something I wanted to focus on next, is that historical comparison to 2016, and as you point out, that this was the main place where the election was lost in 2016 was precisely in those battlefield States. And even though Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 3 million votes or a 2% difference, she still lost.
So how does this now compare? I mean the thing that? of course you mentioned that Biden is weak on the trade issue, which is particularly vulnerable. Now of course the thing that Trump would bring out if Sanders were the nominee is that he is too far left, that he?s a socialist, and now they?re even dragging out that he had? one point, I just saw, a report that he wanted to create a sister city within the Soviet union at that time in 1980s.
So, I mean, if you make that comparison, then, you?ve got a neoliberal candidate, basically, who contributed to the dismantling of manufacturing in the Midwest. And then you?ve got somebody else who the mainstream media, the corporate media, are going to paint as a sort of communist. How do you think this will play out ultimately?
Mark Weisbrote: Well, this again shows the absolute superficiality of what just happened, the reversal in the primary, where Sanders was way ahead of Biden. And in fact, I was on Democracy Now a few weeks ago, introducing the film that we talked about here about Biden?s role in the Iraq war. I had to spend the first minute or two just convincing people that Biden was still relevant so that they would watch it.
And so you can see this kind of volatility is a result of this superficiality of the changes in the voting patterns. In other words, this is exactly what you said, the media went on a big campaign to convince people that Biden was more electable.
Biden himself didn?t even do it, he didn?t even have the money for the ads to do what the media did. And, of course, yes, front page article in the New York times yesterday, which was amazing. It was a very painstakingly detailed story about Bernie Sander?s trip to the Soviet union in the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan was supporting actually what he was doing, trying to improve relations with the Soviet union at that time.
And, they made it look like the Soviets were just using it for propaganda and all that stuff. It was a horrible, right out of the 1950s kind of article.
I think now the question is, can this really hold up? This shift that you have, which, all the polling data shows that the shift was a result of people voting in the primary on the basis of this so-called electability.
I don?t think it can hold up, because first of all, this idea that Bernie is too radical. I mean, as the issues come out, it will be clear that what Bernie is, is a social Democrat of the kind that have been in power in France and Germany and the UK for most of the post World War II period.
And he wants to get for American voters what voters in Europe have gotten, what voters that in countries that are not even as rich as us have, including, of course, first and foremost, healthcare as a human right for everyone. But also some other advances that they have in terms of our work hours and vacation time and things that we don?t have here in the United States. And some job security, maybe the right to organize labor unions, which has been vastly weakened in the United States.
So, these are the kinds of things he?s asking for, it?s not revolutionary. In fact, you can make a case that he?s actually the moderate candidate, and what?s radical are the changes that have come to the United States in the post Reagan era, which Biden was a supporter of all the way from welfare reform to financial deregulation, to everything.
The commercial agreements that we talked about, that really transformed the society from one in which, those who are old enough to remember, one wage earner with a median wage could actually buy a home and support a family, and send their kids to college and they wouldn?t come out with a lifetime of unpayable debt.
Greg Wolpert: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Yes. I think that?s going to be very interesting to see how this plays out, of course, because what it all depends on is whether the corporate media, basically the mainstream media pay attention to these records. But we?ll have to see, and of course we?re going to do our part in trying to bring out to light what?s going on and what the actual records are.
But we?re going to leave it there for now. I was speaking to Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center For Economic And Policy Research.
Thanks again, Mark for having joined us today.
Mark Weisbrote: Thank you, Greg.
Greg Wolpert: And thank you for joining the Real News Network.















> On Mar 9, 2020, at 05:21, Debra Schrishuhn <deb.pdamerica at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Good points, Karen, but Biden won't even go as far as picking Warren or someone like her unless he receives continued pressure from the left. I urge everyone to vote for Bernie Sanders in the upcoming Illinois primary to keep Bernie's chances alive, to keep his voice in the national dialog, and to keep pressure on Biden and other centrist candidates.
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> Deb
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> On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 2:28 PM Karen via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net <mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:
>>>  
>>> A Biden supporter just suggested that Biden and Warren will likely be the Democratic ticket. I agree as Biden is the choice of the elite establishment to ensure their policy?s of impoverishing the masses goes unnoticed. Their form of imperialism is by way of interventions with the use of proxies, quietly using the CIA as usual, keeping Americans asleep as we continue to destroy through coups, mercenaries and sanctions, rather than bombing a respected leader of a foreign nation placing us on the brink of war. We can?t have anymore of that as it might wake up the masses and potentially create anti-war movements across the nation and endanger their power. 
>>> This faction of the ruling elites, think strategically and long term, as they represent the oil and fossil fuel industries, banks, Wall Street, etc., as opposed to the current Trump Administration representing the other faction of the ruling elites known as the entrepreneurial class or bourgeoise who are focused on maximizing short term profits, weapons are one.  
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>>> Make no mistake they both represent the powers that be, who care nothing for those of the working class. They simply represent two separate factions, often referred to as the Establishment, the Ruling Elites, the Deep State, but basically the Capitalists who control capital, the centers of economic power, the means of production, with the goal of preserving capitalism and the existing financial order, and social peace as they don?t want instability. They also want to stop growth and maintain their control of the world. There are factions within the factions as they have differing interests, but the goals are the same, they don?t want socialism.
>>> 
>>> This friend, also predicted Warren would be the VP. I agree, no surprise there as she is female. Given the focus on gender and race rather than exploitation and class by most liberals, that should satisfy their requirements related to Identity, and she too is a puppet of Wall St., and the banks. Unfortunately, only white people given Warrens lies of being part native American have been exposed.
>>> Anybody but Bernie is the mandate, who in spite of his poor choices on foreign policy supporting imperialism from time to time, because he challenges Wall St., the banks and for profit healthcare industry, on behalf of the working class.
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This is what Mark Weisbrot has to say about it. This information is important to get out to the public so people know the true history and agenda of Biden, in comparison to Bernie.
From the Real News Network:

This is a rush transcript and may contain errors. It will be updated.
Greg Wolpert: It?s The Real News Network. I?m Greg Wolpert in Baltimore. Now that the race for the Democratic nomination for president is down to mainly Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, a large part of the debate and the corporate media revolves around which candidate is more electable or more likely to win in the general election against president Trump. Here are two examples of the media chorus that emphasizes the electability issue.
Speaker 2: I wonder if voters have internalized some of Joe Biden?s electability around the threat that Donald Trump obviously feels from him. Donald Trump is so terrified of running into Joe Biden that he risked his entire presidency. He bet the farm on his whole presidency to kill him off politically.
Speaker 3: I think you saw hundreds and thousands of people coming out coast to coast, Democrats. And one thing ruled above all, they are not willing to roll the dice on the future of this country by wasting a vote.
Speaker 2: That?s right.
Speaker 3: They want to win. They want someone who can beat Donald Trump. And I think many of them feel strongly now that in Joe Biden they have that candidate.
Greg Wolpert: Joining me now to explore this electability question is Mark Weisbrot. He?s co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and author of the book Failed: What The Experts Got Wrong About The Global Economy.
Thanks for joining us again, Mark.
Mark Weisbrote: Thanks for having me Greg.
Greg Wolpert: So I think we can explore the electability question from three different angles. First, what the polls say. Second, the policies that each candidate supports. And third, what history tells us what happened in this similar situation.
Now, regarding the polls, they seem to be relatively inconclusive. That is with Biden ahead in some of them and Sanders ahead in others. So, let?s take a look at this rather from the perspective of issues.
In a previous interview, we already took a look at Biden?s stance on the war in Iraq where he was far more instrumental in making the Iraq war possible than he admits. Now there?s other issues of course, and so let?s focus on those. Key domestic issues for voters will no doubt be social security and Medicare.
There?s a large gap between the older and the younger generation in terms of who they support. 18 to 34 year olds support Sanders with 47%, and Biden only 13%. While among senior citizens, Biden leads Sanders by a margin of 25% to 11%.
So let?s start with social security, which is something you?ve looked at in quite detail. Who ought to be more electable on this issue? Sanders or Biden?
Mark Weisbrote: Well, there?s no doubt about that. I mean, Biden has a history of decades of supporting actual cuts to social security benefits, and that hasn?t really gotten out there enough, but I think it will. And so he?s very vulnerable for that.
And he has a healthcare plan, which does provide something that?s an expansion of the Obamacare, the ACA. And so it provides something, a little bit, some more subsidies for premium for most of the population, but it totally leaves out people over 65. And I?m glad you emphasized that demographic because that?s the demographic that really is not only pro Biden, but it?s the more conservative demographic of the Democratic voters.
And they really do turnout. In the 2018 elections, for example, if you look at where Democrats lost, they only lost in the older demographic, over 50. If you took them out, Democrats would?ve won the Senate and everything else.
So, this is a really important demographic in the election. And so Biden?s support here is a mile wide, but an inch deep, because as soon as people find out what he?s doing on healthcare? so he?s provided nothing, absolutely zero for people over 65 who get actual Medicare. And I think a lot of people don?t know that because they?re thinking, well, Medicare for all, that?s getting everybody what I already have.
But no, it?s actually much more than that. They don?t have dental care. And, you look at the data, a lot of senior citizens are losing teeth because they don?t have dental coverage and they don?t have eyeglasses covered. They don?t have hearing aids covered, they don?t have long-term care, and Biden provides them absolutely nothing.
So here?s healthcare reform, and it leaves out the over 65. There is one thing in there for long-term care, but it?s a non-refundable tax credit, so the vast majority of seniors wouldn?t be eligible for it.
So, there?s really nothing for them, and that?s going to be a scandal when that actually gets into the campaign, because that?s a really big thing. I mean, they?re going to realize that everybody at least is going to get some little bit from this healthcare reform and they?re getting nothing at all.
Greg Wolpert: Mm-hmm (affirmative). I just want to return quickly to the issue of social security now, I mean, why is it that Biden keeps talking about? and how recently has he been talking about cutting social security? Has his position remained the same on that? And what is Sander?s position on social security?
Mark Weisbrote: Yes. Well, Biden supported cutting cuts to social security, very significant cuts. At that time it was a cut in the cost of living allowance, and that was 2013. So it?s not what he did in 1995 and in ?84 also where he supported cuts, this was fairly recently. And, so he?s only changed his position now in this campaign where he now supports an expansion of benefits, but it?s nowhere near what Bernie Sanders is supporting, which is a strong expansion of benefits.
And they have just a whole different record going back. I mean, Bernie?s been in Congress since 1991, he?s been fighting to expand benefits when he had, maybe three people on his side, and Biden was on the other side. So there?s a long track record. I think that?s another thing that?s going to come out, because right now he can get away with it, nobody?s paying that close attention.
Now, it?s a head to head race between those two and people are going to see the differences. And that?s another real difference that?ll come out. I mean, Bernie, one of the reasons he?s popular is he?s authentic, he has this long track record. He?s been consistent for decades.
And when he talks to the voters, he doesn?t talk to them? he doesn?t even like to talk about himself at all. They?ll ask him a question about himself, even his religion, and he quickly says, ?I want to talk about the issues.? He?ll answer them because he has nothing to hide, but what most candidates have is the idea that voters can?t understand these things, and therefore I have to talk about my life and my upbringing and my uncle, what my grandfather said, and all the things that Biden likes to talk about.
He?s really addressing them on these issues. And that?s going to come out more and more, I think, in the weeks and months ahead.
Greg Wolpert: Now, what do you think are some of the other issues that Biden might be vulnerable on, or that SAnders could be vulnerable or strong on that would affect their ability to win in a race against Trump in November?
Mark Weisbrote: Well, I think trade is big, also. You mentioned the war, I think that?s also big, and we talked about that before. I mean Biden led the effort to give president George W. Bush permission from Congress, authority from Congress, I should say, to invade Iraq. And that?s a big thing that?ll come out also.
But, the trade issues are very big. If you look at? everybody knows Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, that?s where the electoral votes that gave Trump the election were won last time. And why did he win them? Well, one reason he won them is you look at those States, those were people hit very hard by the so-called trade agreements, I call them commercial agreements because they?re not really so much about trade, but they cost a lot of jobs.
We lost 5 million manufacturing jobs in the United States after 2000. Those voters, those swing voters, those were the ones that were most hit. In fact, you can even look at Trade Adjustment Assistance, which is a federal program that actually pays people who lost their jobs as a result of these commercial agreements. So you have to be certified. So it?s a small fraction of the people who really lost their job.
And you look at those three States and it?s vastly more than the margin that Trump won that gave him the election. And then you had the Trans-Pacific Partnership at that time, which unfortunately at that time, president Obama was going around the country campaigning for the TPP, and Hillary had campaigned, had been very strongly in favor of the TPP, and she changed her position for the election.
And that was a very big issue that Trump played upon. And it?s the only one he actually delivered on where he did reject the agreement, which is not clear at all would have happened if he hadn?t won.
So that?s, I think, going to be a major issue going forward. And those are the real swing voters. I mean, the biggest and most likely group of swing voters in the next election will be people who were negatively affected by those agreements, not only from lost jobs, but lower wages, greater job insecurity and everything else that came out of those agreements.
Greg Wolpert: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Well that?s actually something I wanted to focus on next, is that historical comparison to 2016, and as you point out, that this was the main place where the election was lost in 2016 was precisely in those battlefield States. And even though Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 3 million votes or a 2% difference, she still lost.
So how does this now compare? I mean the thing that? of course you mentioned that Biden is weak on the trade issue, which is particularly vulnerable. Now of course the thing that Trump would bring out if Sanders were the nominee is that he is too far left, that he?s a socialist, and now they?re even dragging out that he had? one point, I just saw, a report that he wanted to create a sister city within the Soviet union at that time in 1980s.
So, I mean, if you make that comparison, then, you?ve got a neoliberal candidate, basically, who contributed to the dismantling of manufacturing in the Midwest. And then you?ve got somebody else who the mainstream media, the corporate media, are going to paint as a sort of communist. How do you think this will play out ultimately?
Mark Weisbrote: Well, this again shows the absolute superficiality of what just happened, the reversal in the primary, where Sanders was way ahead of Biden. And in fact, I was on Democracy Now a few weeks ago, introducing the film that we talked about here about Biden?s role in the Iraq war. I had to spend the first minute or two just convincing people that Biden was still relevant so that they would watch it.
And so you can see this kind of volatility is a result of this superficiality of the changes in the voting patterns. In other words, this is exactly what you said, the media went on a big campaign to convince people that Biden was more electable.
Biden himself didn?t even do it, he didn?t even have the money for the ads to do what the media did. And, of course, yes, front page article in the New York times yesterday, which was amazing. It was a very painstakingly detailed story about Bernie Sander?s trip to the Soviet union in the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan was supporting actually what he was doing, trying to improve relations with the Soviet union at that time.
And, they made it look like the Soviets were just using it for propaganda and all that stuff. It was a horrible, right out of the 1950s kind of article.
I think now the question is, can this really hold up? This shift that you have, which, all the polling data shows that the shift was a result of people voting in the primary on the basis of this so-called electability.
I don?t think it can hold up, because first of all, this idea that Bernie is too radical. I mean, as the issues come out, it will be clear that what Bernie is, is a social Democrat of the kind that have been in power in France and Germany and the UK for most of the post World War II period.
And he wants to get for American voters what voters in Europe have gotten, what voters that in countries that are not even as rich as us have, including, of course, first and foremost, healthcare as a human right for everyone. But also some other advances that they have in terms of our work hours and vacation time and things that we don?t have here in the United States. And some job security, maybe the right to organize labor unions, which has been vastly weakened in the United States.
So, these are the kinds of things he?s asking for, it?s not revolutionary. In fact, you can make a case that he?s actually the moderate candidate, and what?s radical are the changes that have come to the United States in the post Reagan era, which Biden was a supporter of all the way from welfare reform to financial deregulation, to everything.
The commercial agreements that we talked about, that really transformed the society from one in which, those who are old enough to remember, one wage earner with a median wage could actually buy a home and support a family, and send their kids to college and they wouldn?t come out with a lifetime of unpayable debt.
Greg Wolpert: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Yes. I think that?s going to be very interesting to see how this plays out, of course, because what it all depends on is whether the corporate media, basically the mainstream media pay attention to these records. But we?ll have to see, and of course we?re going to do our part in trying to bring out to light what?s going on and what the actual records are.
But we?re going to leave it there for now. I was speaking to Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center For Economic And Policy Research.
Thanks again, Mark for having joined us today.
Mark Weisbrote: Thank you, Greg.
Greg Wolpert: And thank you for joining the Real News Network.















> On Mar 9, 2020, at 05:21, Debra Schrishuhn <deb.pdamerica at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Good points, Karen, but Biden won't even go as far as picking Warren or someone like her unless he receives continued pressure from the left. I urge everyone to vote for Bernie Sanders in the upcoming Illinois primary to keep Bernie's chances alive, to keep his voice in the national dialog, and to keep pressure on Biden and other centrist candidates.
> 
> Deb
> 
> 
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 2:28 PM Karen via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net <mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:
>>>  
>>> A Biden supporter just suggested that Biden and Warren will likely be the Democratic ticket. I agree as Biden is the choice of the elite establishment to ensure their policy?s of impoverishing the masses goes unnoticed. Their form of imperialism is by way of interventions with the use of proxies, quietly using the CIA as usual, keeping Americans asleep as we continue to destroy through coups, mercenaries and sanctions, rather than bombing a respected leader of a foreign nation placing us on the brink of war. We can?t have anymore of that as it might wake up the masses and potentially create anti-war movements across the nation and endanger their power. 
>>> This faction of the ruling elites, think strategically and long term, as they represent the oil and fossil fuel industries, banks, Wall Street, etc., as opposed to the current Trump Administration representing the other faction of the ruling elites known as the entrepreneurial class or bourgeoise who are focused on maximizing short term profits, weapons are one.  
>>> 
>>> Make no mistake they both represent the powers that be, who care nothing for those of the working class. They simply represent two separate factions, often referred to as the Establishment, the Ruling Elites, the Deep State, but basically the Capitalists who control capital, the centers of economic power, the means of production, with the goal of preserving capitalism and the existing financial order, and social peace as they don?t want instability. They also want to stop growth and maintain their control of the world. There are factions within the factions as they have differing interests, but the goals are the same, they don?t want socialism.
>>> 
>>> This friend, also predicted Warren would be the VP. I agree, no surprise there as she is female. Given the focus on gender and race rather than exploitation and class by most liberals, that should satisfy their requirements related to Identity, and she too is a puppet of Wall St., and the banks. Unfortunately, only white people given Warrens lies of being part native American have been exposed.
>>> Anybody but Bernie is the mandate, who in spite of his poor choices on foreign policy supporting imperialism from time to time, because he challenges Wall St., the banks and for profit healthcare industry, on behalf of the working class.
>> 
>>> Karen Aram
>>>  
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From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 08:55:13 -0700
Subject: [Peace] Crosstalk, Walter is worth a listen,
 even though he spoke little.
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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 08:55:13 -0700
Subject: [Peace] Crosstalk, Walter is worth a listen,
 even though he spoke little.
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Thu Mar 12 14:20:54 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen)
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 07:20:54 -0700
Subject: [Peace] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_CYPRUS_INTERNATIONAL_CONFERENCE_AGAINST?=
 =?utf-8?q?_IMPERIALISM_=E2=80=94_POSTPONED?=
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> 
> From: "Cyprus International Conference Organizing Committee via ActionNetwork.org" <admin at Cyprus-Conference.org>
> Subject: CYPRUS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AGAINST IMPERIALISM ? POSTPONED
> Date: March 12, 2020 at 07:16:51 PDT
> 
> 
> 
> CYPRUS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 
> AGAINST IMPERIALISM
> 
> POSTPONED TO SEPTEMBER 11-13, 2020
> 
> March 12, 2020
> 
> Due to the increasing health threat posed by the spread of the virus COVID-19 (?coronavirus?), we have been forced to make the difficult decision of postponing the Cyprus International Conference Against Imperialism, scheduled for March 27-29, 2020 in Larnaca, Cyprus.
> 
> This was not an easy decision for the organizers of the conference. We did not want to postpone the conference prematurely due to the travel and financial problems it could cause for our speakers and participants, who had already made their reservations for lodging and booked their airline tickets. The number confirmed international participants had reached more than 100 from around 50 countries.
> 
> However, because of recent identification of some cases of coronavirus infection in Cyprus and its complications, and increasing travel restrictions imposed on the public by various governments, we decided that holding the conference at the scheduled time would be too risky for our conference participants and the host country. (The government of the Cyprus Republic announced on 10th March the prohibition of all events with more than 75 attendants.)
> 
> As a result, we have decided to postpone the Conference for six months, to September 11-13, 2020, again in Larnaca Cyprus, with the same arrangements (registration, venue, accommodation, etc.). We apologize for the inconvenience this could cause, but as you are well aware, this was decision that had to be made. 
> 
> A few points about Conference postponement:
> 
> Registered participants will have the option of keeping their conference registrations and lodging reservations for the new date, or can ask for cancellation and refund. We will be happy to accommodate their wishes.
> Please inform us about your wish. Otherwise, we will assume that you wish to keep your registration and accommodation for the new date. Please reply to this email and inform us about your decision.
> As to airline tickets, setting a new date for the conference allows our participants to rebook their flights with a minimal fee as opposed to losing their tickets completely. Many airlines have also announced that they are waiving their rebooking fees due to the virus pandemic.
> When rebooking your tickets, try to arrive in Larnaca on Friday September 11 before 3:00 PM (15:00), as part of the program will start at 5:00 PM (17:00).
> The Conference web site will be updated for the new date and will remain open for Conference Registration and Accommodation for September 11-13, 2020.
> We hope that this postponement does not keep you from participating in the conference in September and making it successful.
> 
> Thank you for your support of the conference.
> 
> Iraklis Tsavdaridis
> Executive Secretary, World Peace Council
> 
> Bahman Azad 
> Coordinator, Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases
> 
> Stelios Sofocli 
> Chair, Cyprus Peace Council
> 
> 
> For more information and to register
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From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Thu Mar 12 15:35:00 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 10:35:00 -0500
Subject: [Peace] News from Neptune, research
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Joe Biden giving a speech at one of his own rallies:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men-n-women created -- by the -- go
-- you know, you know the thing."

Your research on this is busy writing itself, almost faster than I can get it all down in notes like these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbKfw8mojGc -- Matt Orfalea's latest video is an honest Joe Biden ad called 'Character' featuring some of Joe Biden's recent hits:

"I'm gonna wrap this chain around your head!" (Delaware 2017 speech where Biden "recounts nearly wrapping a chain around a gang leader named Corn Pop's head" according to https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/15/delaware-2017-joe-biden-recounts-wrapping-chain-gang-leader-corn-pop/ )

"Look, fat" (Biden referring to an older man during the 2020 POTUS race),

"Poor kids are just as bright as white kids" ("Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. raised eyebrows on Thursday during a speech in Iowa when he said that ?poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids?" according to the New York Times in https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/us/politics/joe-biden-poor-kids.html)

"I'm like the token black or the token woman",
"See, I went to the big guys for the money",
and "You run the risk of deciding whether or not you?re going to prostitute yourself to give the answer you know they want to hear in order to get funded to run for that office"  (arguing "in terms of getting funding from donors" according to the Daily Caller in https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/27/flashback-biden-token-black-token-woman/ 2 years into his first term as a Delaware Senator)

"You know, you know the thing" (see above, 2020 speech in front of supporters at Biden rally during POTUS race)

But if Orfalea had waited just one more week to make that fake campaign ad he could have added some more recent quips:

"You're full of shit" (Biden to a gun enthusiast union worker during the 2020 POTUS race),

"You're a damn liar" (Biden to an Iowan voter in the 2020 POTUS race),

And think of the fun Joe's wife Jill Biden offers! Here's a taste:

From https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/19/politics/jill-biden-joe-biden-beat-donald-trump/
Jill Biden: Your candidate might be better on, I don't know, health care, than Joe
is, but you've got to look at who's going to win this election. And maybe you have
to swallow a little bit and say, 'OK, I personally like so and so better,' but
your bottom line has to be that we have to beat Trump.
Just think of what's to come...and think of how none of these would be described as "gaffes" or merely "odd" & "rather unusual" (as Vox recently put it in https://www.vox.com/2020/2/10/21131327/biden-dog-faced-pony-soldier-new-hampshire when Vox tried to paper over how Biden told college student Madison Moore, "a young female voter [who asked] why voters should believe if he can win" at a New Hampshire campaign event. Biden asked Moore "You ever been to a caucus?" and Moore responded that she had, Biden responded "No you haven?t. You?re a lying dog-faced pony soldier."). If Trump said that, he'd be described in far worse terms and anyone using such lightweight criticism would be accused of co-signing Trump's needless aggression. We might get another chorus of how Trump was unfit for office due to the way he treated a woman.

Yet these quotes are all from former VP Biden who is currently the leading candidate in the Democratic Party primary (and certainly the preferred candidate by the neocons and neolibs).

How ironic is it that Biden's "gaffes" lowering him to Trump's level means all we have left to discuss are substantive issues like war & peace, healthcare, the climate, and how the economy serves the interests of the 1% and undermines the 99%? Whatever you do, don't look at the underlying system of what Chris Hedges rightly called "a one-choice election" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPOaLKj-pks).

Related:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB1UIE2WQy0 -- Jimmy Dore's excellent coverage exposing how Joe Biden lied on Lawrence O'Donnell's MSNBC show (to no objection from corporate stenographer O'Donnell, of course) about his support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Biden's lying is exposed via clips from a speech Biden gave (footage from C-SPAN), versus what Biden says now, via his recent MSNBC interview.

-JB Nicholson




From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Fri Mar 13 01:05:40 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 20:05:40 -0500
Subject: [Peace] TULSI 2020
Message-ID: <99E40375-18F8-4A28-9DD8-435AF5C4EC2F@newsfromneptune.com>

https://news.tulsi2020.com/en/im-asking-for-your-help-today		


From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Fri Mar 13 01:43:07 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 20:43:07 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Comments on the March 17 primary
Message-ID: <BBF02297-C0E1-4496-9701-C1E387F9DCDE@newsfromneptune.com>

[Prepared for AWARE ON THE AIR by James Manrique]

...my quick picks of highlights:

on the Rep side
US Senate: Peggy is ok. But the local Reps don't really like any of the candidates, they say that they are all Dems in Rep clothing.
IL-15 (Rantoul & Mahomet & rural areas of Champaign County): Chuck Ellington is pretty solid. He actually has fairly good views in terms of the importance of improving healthcare (he doesn't support M4A, exactly, but he did make it a direct point to bring up how critically important it is to improve healthcare and make sure that people can get care when they need it rather than last minute)

on the Dem side
IL-15: They're all kinda whatever. Kevin Gaither is a perennial candidate that has soured some folks in the past. John Hursey is a total non-politician candidate, running mostly to say "there is always another option, and anyone can run" sorta angle. Craig Morton might be good. Erika Weaver may be a little corporate, not sure.

IL-13: No brainer, Stefanie Smith by a long measure. Betsy still refuses to even acknowledge M4A. Stefanie is rough around the edges, and her followers may include some rabble-rousing-radicals, but at least she is able to be a voice for "leftist" issues.

Circuit Judge: Ramona Sullivan, hands down. She is an active public defender, helping on the frontlines with some of the most disenfranchised citizens in our county. I'm not sure anyone could match that experience, in terms of compassion for the average or low-income person. I would very much avoid voting for Troy Lozar. He is a former prosecutor and is very much "tough on crime". Ruth Wyman can speak spanish fluently, which is an excellent trait for the bench, but she has a little bit of a questionable past, and her rating from the bar association wasn't great, the only candidate in this contest to get "Not Recommended". David Moore isn't too bad. Don't have a lot of negative to say about him, other than he isn't Ramona.

Circuit Clerk: No strong feelings. These are both excellent people, (Susan McGrath and Robert Burkhalter) and either one I'm sure would do a fine job. Susan does have a bit of a past in the local democrat party, but I don't think that past would at all impact her performance of this office. Robert also has a ton of experience in this office, and is really down to earth. They've both put in a lot of honest work for this spot. It really just comes down to personal preference.

County Board: It's very much "old guard" vs "young dems". CB6, I really liked that Charles Young called out the ways the young dems operate (very much like a clique, you are either in, or you are outcast). But honestly, DeShawn Williams might be a slightly better candidate overall. Hard to say. 
CB8. Again, I really like some instances in the past where Rosales has called out the young dems. But on the other hand, I'm not sure he's much better himself, and I'm not sure that he's got much done recently (in the candidate forums, many of his accomplishments seemed to come from the 1990s). Tho Emily is strongly in the "young dems" category, I still think change sends the message that the voters are willing to vote you out if you aren't getting enough done. So, I'd go with Emily on this.
CB9. Cynthia Fears refused to debate Jen Straub. That alone should be enough to tell you something. Jen is part of the young dems, but less deeply connected, and seems to be a more open & reachable candidate.
CB10. As with Charles & Rosales, I like that Connie Dillard-Myers publicly calls out the dems and their scheming ways. That is needed. But I'm not really sure Connie is that good at actually getting things done, or strong progressive values. Mary King is much like Jen, only loosely connected with the young-dem-establishment, and Mary seems like she has a lot of good ideas & visions for the county board.


-james.


On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 10:07 AM C. G. Estabrook <carl at newsfromneptune.com> wrote:
James?

I?m afraid I?m going to have to cancel tomorrow?s tv program (Friday 3/13 at noon).

If you?d like to write out some comments on the election, I?d love to post them to the AWARE email lists.

Sorry to have to do this. Thanks for your patience. ?CARL
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From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen)
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 14:40:56 -0700
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Tonight! Liberation News Livestream: Miko Peled on
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sat Mar 14 01:55:47 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen)
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 18:55:47 -0700
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: No ANSWER activities this month
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> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Thanks to everyone who came out to our teach-in on February 15th!
> 
> You may have seen flyers passed out at the last AWARE demonstration about a planned rally to commemorate the 17th anniversary of the Iraq War.  Due to health concerns regarding COVID-19, we have decided to cancel this event.  
> 
> We had also planned to host labor rights lawyer and anti-war activist Dan Kovalik on March 25.  We will have to postpone that event for now.
> 
> We will send out info once we can (hopefully) restart our events next month.  Be safe and wash your hands!
> 
> Peter Sentz
> ANSWER Coalition Champaign-Urbana


From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sat Mar 14 01:55:47 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen)
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 18:55:47 -0700
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: No ANSWER activities this month
References: <CAFC1h4D+ADhDfK2=611h7Rp-R+J6fXERQGY1Rij4BKjTjxAqvQ@mail.gmail.com>
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> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Thanks to everyone who came out to our teach-in on February 15th!
> 
> You may have seen flyers passed out at the last AWARE demonstration about a planned rally to commemorate the 17th anniversary of the Iraq War.  Due to health concerns regarding COVID-19, we have decided to cancel this event.  
> 
> We had also planned to host labor rights lawyer and anti-war activist Dan Kovalik on March 25.  We will have to postpone that event for now.
> 
> We will send out info once we can (hopefully) restart our events next month.  Be safe and wash your hands!
> 
> Peter Sentz
> ANSWER Coalition Champaign-Urbana


From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sat Mar 14 15:15:11 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 15:15:11 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Protecting against Covid, updated
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From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Sun Mar 15 21:38:07 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 16:38:07 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Reading About the Black Death with My Daughter Amid
 the Outbreak
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> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: Liz Burbank <lizburbank at zipcon.net>
> Subject: Reading About the Black Death with My Daughter Amid the Outbreak
> Date: March 15, 2020 at 4:31:13 PM CDT
> To: Liz Burbank <lizburbank at zipcon.net>
> 
>    NUDGE
> The New Yorker is making its news coverage and analysis of the coronavirus outbreak available for free to all readers. Read our stories here.
> Reading About the Black Death with My Daughter Amid the Outbreak
> By Sam Knight A child?s fascination with the fourteenth-century scourge takes a sobering tone as Britain scrambles to stave off a new catastrophe.An illustration of a people throwing bodies in to boats on a canal during the Black Plague....
> https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/reading-about-the-black-death-with-my-daughter-during-the-coronavirus- <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.newyorker.com_news_letter-2Dfrom-2Dthe-2Duk_reading-2Dabout-2Dthe-2Dblack-2Ddeath-2Dwith-2Dmy-2Ddaughter-2Dduring-2Dthe-2Dcoronavirus-2D&d=DwMFAw&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=r9ggwGWSXULJ3RMEGISCv6oZ9xaPN4qNABPmTF_3It4&m=AeryGl2FBmRS3s4GCGJS5vBjFRWJF7gel4CFup8Xjq0&s=9nBs68fuZkm9SxuM0qWvyy5RgYAjxip_5nBeCna20YY&e=>
> 
> *Update, 13 February, 12:15 p.m.: WHO spokesperson has updated with information in story below, published 12 February
> Update: 'A bit chaotic.' Christening of new coronavirus and ... Science
> 2/12/20 <https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/bit-chaotic-christening-new-coronavirus-and-its-disease-name-create-confusion <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.sciencemag.org_news_2020_02_bit-2Dchaotic-2Dchristening-2Dnew-2Dcoronavirus-2Dand-2Dits-2Ddisease-2Dname-2Dcreate-2Dconfusion&d=DwMFAw&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=r9ggwGWSXULJ3RMEGISCv6oZ9xaPN4qNABPmTF_3It4&m=AeryGl2FBmRS3s4GCGJS5vBjFRWJF7gel4CFup8Xjq0&s=GkmuM3eySBbQaKijwO2E47jbW8kSacOMiG6_mUFKoyE&e=>> 
> expert group says novel coronavirus, now named SARS-CoV-2, ... COVID-19 is a name for the disease, not for the virus that causes it, ..
> WHO says Europe now epicentre of pandemic
> <https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00154-w <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nature.com_articles_d41586-2D020-2D00154-2Dw&d=DwMFAw&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=r9ggwGWSXULJ3RMEGISCv6oZ9xaPN4qNABPmTF_3It4&m=AeryGl2FBmRS3s4GCGJS5vBjFRWJF7gel4CFup8Xjq0&s=NeEndkY3epx2Pj29YNXnOGqtTW-x2FdFBMp2nlOu-vo&e=>>  
> 2 days ago ... Europe now become the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, says the ... The bill will provide more than $3 billion to the Centers for Disease Control and ... Other funding will contribute to the global coronavirus response and provide ... between the 104 strains of the coronavirus, named SARS-CoV-2, .
> 
> 
> ... Expert reaction to WHO say COVID-19 can be characterised as a ... coronavirus: classifying 2019-nCoV and naming it SARS-CoV-2 ..
> 1 day ago ... 13 March 2020 Edition ? COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives. ... Rapid risk assessment: Novel coronavirus disease<https:// <https://>linksmedicus.com/news/novel-coronavirus-latest-articles-09-february-2020/> 
> medRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217 <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__doi.org_10.1101_2020.03.09.20033217&d=DwMFAw&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=r9ggwGWSXULJ3RMEGISCv6oZ9xaPN4qNABPmTF_3It4&m=AeryGl2FBmRS3s4GCGJS5vBjFRWJF7gel4CFup8Xjq0&s=WDEoczOC6bc9haJ-6AaNvhJuOntMeBfoWZXYyUph0ro&e=>. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not peer-reviewed) is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. This article is a US Government work .
> This research was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH). JOL-S and AG were supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA PREEMPT # D18AC00031, and JOL-S was supported by U.S. National Science Foundation (DEB-1557022) Strategic Environmental Research and  Development Program (SERDP, RC 2635) of the U.S. Department of Defense.
> Here, we show the stability of HCoV-19 and SARS-CoV-1 under experimental  circumstances tested is similar. Taken together, our results indicate aerosol and fomite transmission of HCoV-19 are plausible, as the virus can remain viable in aerosols for multiple hours and on surfaces up to.....  
> 
> Estimation of COVID-2019 burden and potential for international dissemination of infection from Iran
> <https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.24.20027375v1 <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.medrxiv.org_content_10.1101_2020.02.24.20027375v1&d=DwMFAw&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=r9ggwGWSXULJ3RMEGISCv6oZ9xaPN4qNABPmTF_3It4&m=AeryGl2FBmRS3s4GCGJS5vBjFRWJF7gel4CFup8Xjq0&s=5rdWxQBgyHc56zqWysbKERWkaD0C-0VAEprcx9Z7up8&e=>> doi: https:// <https://>doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.24.20027375
> 
> 
> *Update, 13 February, 12:15 p.m.: WHO spokesperson has updated with information in story below, published 12 February
> Update: 'A bit chaotic.' Christening of new coronavirus and ... Science
> 2/12/20 <https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/bit-chaotic-christening-new-coronavirus-and-its-disease-name-create-confusion <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.sciencemag.org_news_2020_02_bit-2Dchaotic-2Dchristening-2Dnew-2Dcoronavirus-2Dand-2Dits-2Ddisease-2Dname-2Dcreate-2Dconfusion&d=DwMFAw&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=r9ggwGWSXULJ3RMEGISCv6oZ9xaPN4qNABPmTF_3It4&m=AeryGl2FBmRS3s4GCGJS5vBjFRWJF7gel4CFup8Xjq0&s=GkmuM3eySBbQaKijwO2E47jbW8kSacOMiG6_mUFKoyE&e=>> 
> expert group says novel coronavirus, now named SARS-CoV-2, ... COVID-19 is a name for the disease, not for the virus that causes it, ..
> WHO says Europe now epicentre of pandemic
> <https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00154-w <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nature.com_articles_d41586-2D020-2D00154-2Dw&d=DwMFAw&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=r9ggwGWSXULJ3RMEGISCv6oZ9xaPN4qNABPmTF_3It4&m=AeryGl2FBmRS3s4GCGJS5vBjFRWJF7gel4CFup8Xjq0&s=NeEndkY3epx2Pj29YNXnOGqtTW-x2FdFBMp2nlOu-vo&e=>>  
> 2 days ago ... Europe now become the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, says the ... The bill will provide more than $3 billion to the Centers for Disease Control and ... Other funding will contribute to the global coronavirus response and provide ... between the 104 strains of the coronavirus, named SARS-CoV-2, .
> 
> 
> ... Expert reaction to WHO say COVID-19 can be characterised as a ... coronavirus: classifying 2019-nCoV and naming it SARS-CoV-2 ..
> 1 day ago ... 13 March 2020 Edition ? COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives. ... Rapid risk assessment: Novel coronavirus disease<https:// <https://>linksmedicus.com/news/novel-coronavirus-latest-articles-09-february-2020/> 
> medRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217 <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__doi.org_10.1101_2020.03.09.20033217&d=DwMFAw&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=r9ggwGWSXULJ3RMEGISCv6oZ9xaPN4qNABPmTF_3It4&m=AeryGl2FBmRS3s4GCGJS5vBjFRWJF7gel4CFup8Xjq0&s=WDEoczOC6bc9haJ-6AaNvhJuOntMeBfoWZXYyUph0ro&e=>. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not peer-reviewed) is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. This article is a US Government work .
> This research was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH). JOL-S and AG were supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA PREEMPT # D18AC00031, and JOL-S was supported by U.S. National Science Foundation (DEB-1557022) and Strategic Environmental Research and  Development Program (SERDP, RC 2635) of U.S. Department of Defense.
> Here, we show the stability of HCoV-19 and SARS-CoV-1 under experimental  circumstances tested is similar. Taken together, our results indicate aerosol and fomite transmission of HCoV-19 are plausible, as the virus can remain viable in aerosols for multiple hours and on surfaces up to.....  
> 
> What is the Nudge Unit doing on coronavirus? 
> <http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=What%20is%20the%20Nudge%20Unit%20doing%20on%20coronavirus%3F%20 <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__twitter.com_intent_tweet-3Ftext-3DWhat-2520is-2520the-2520Nudge-2520Unit-2520doing-2520on-2520coronavirus-253F-2520&d=DwMFAw&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=r9ggwGWSXULJ3RMEGISCv6oZ9xaPN4qNABPmTF_3It4&m=AeryGl2FBmRS3s4GCGJS5vBjFRWJF7gel4CFup8Xjq0&s=hV27N0A6pY6-MPQDdZ7bs8Il68qMMP-sScfBf4ymvpg&e=>> 
> The Nudge Unit is working closely with the Department of Health and Social Care in crafting the government response <https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/covid-19-government-plan <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk_explainer_covid-2D19-2Dgovernment-2Dplan&d=DwMFAw&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=r9ggwGWSXULJ3RMEGISCv6oZ9xaPN4qNABPmTF_3It4&m=AeryGl2FBmRS3s4GCGJS5vBjFRWJF7gel4CFup8Xjq0&s=8uVapjGMxqrfh4cl5TT3w133Jsomyo3DaE-5eGzP38c&e=>> . The most visible manifestation of its influence to date is in the communication around hand-washing and face touching ? in particular the use of ?disgust? as an incentive to wash hands and the suggestion of singing Happy Birthday to ensure hands are washed for the requisite 20 seconds. But it also seems to be influencing the more controversial question over when to move from ?contain? to ?delay? phasing. This is based on evidence about duration of compliance.
> MINDSPACE Influencing behaviour through public policy
> 
> 
>> 3 MIN VIDEO CASS SUNSTEIN, NUDGES GRADUATE TO LIBERALISING FASCIST PSYCHIATRIST INFLUENCER
>> WGBH News   https://www.wgbh.org/news/2018/02/27/news/can-it-happen-here-essayists-trump-signs-authoritarianism-america <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.wgbh.org_news_2018_02_27_news_can-2Dit-2Dhappen-2Dhere-2Dessayists-2Dtrump-2Dsigns-2Dauthoritarianism-2Damerica&d=DwMFAw&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=r9ggwGWSXULJ3RMEGISCv6oZ9xaPN4qNABPmTF_3It4&m=AeryGl2FBmRS3s4GCGJS5vBjFRWJF7gel4CFup8Xjq0&s=0UdUBSWt8NoEBw3jW8EFuI2DqadMvDxnai0nfFr1RGk&e=>
>> February 27, 2018   Greater Boston <https://www.wgbh.org/news/greater-boston <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.wgbh.org_news_greater-2Dboston&d=DwMFAw&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=r9ggwGWSXULJ3RMEGISCv6oZ9xaPN4qNABPmTF_3It4&m=AeryGl2FBmRS3s4GCGJS5vBjFRWJF7gel4CFup8Xjq0&s=ciDcb7gw_eZbQcrHmxanO8ciINaqb31IfL4QfUXdyas&e=>>
>> Could authoritarianism take hold in America? Cass Sunstein, a Harvard professor and former Obama administration official, said he thinks it?s ?highly improbable? our democracy would reach that point, but that our country remains vulnerable.
>> The question is the centerpiece of a new book edited by Sunstein titled, ?Can It Happen Here? Authoritarianism in America,? a collection of essays by some of the nation?s leading theorists, historians, and thinkers.  Among them is Martha Minow, former dean of Harvard Law School, who joined Sunstein Tuesday for an interview here on Greater Boston ?When Cass asked me to participate, I jumped at the chance because of the issues that have arisen since the election and during the campaign,? Minow said.
> Sunstein, Obama White House Office Administrator of Information and Regulatory Affairs, said the book is not explicitly about President Donald Trump, but instead highlights the ?occasional vulnerability? that some of our institutions face. Much of the conversation focused on the erosion of trust in the free press and the state of the judiciary ? both of which have been criticized by Trump.... 
> 
> Dr Jos? Delgado. Director of Neuropsychiatry, Yale University Medical School
> Congressional Record, No. 26, Vol. 118 February 24, 1974. 
> "We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated. The individual may think the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective. Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electronically control the brain. Someday armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain.".... 
> 
> 
> 
> ... suffer crippled epistemology, in accordance with which it is rational to hold such theories... the best response consists in cognitive infiltration.
> CASS SUNSTEIN: OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ?INFO CZAR?
> COGNITIVE INFILTRATION fascist behavioral psychology ?NUDGES? mental health for new world order
> This brief essay offers a general introduction to the idea of nudging...most important ?nudges?..,to create some separate ?behavioral insights unit?conducting its research, or rely on existing institutions. Keywords: nudges, behavioral science, freedom of choice, behavioral insights team...
> Former Chicago and Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein,... 2008 co-authored a plan for the government to prevent the spread of anti-government "conspiracy theories," in which he advocated use of anonymous government agent "cognitive infiltration" to break them up,,,  in 2009 was appointed by President Barack Obama to direct an important executive....
> (?information czar?}.... Griffin uses both satire and overwhelming evidence... Griffin author over 30 books, professor of philosophy of religion and theology emeritus,Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University, CA
> Cognitive Infiltration: Obama Appointee Plan...<https://books.google.com/books?No <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__books.google.com_books-3FNo&d=DwMFAw&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=r9ggwGWSXULJ3RMEGISCv6oZ9xaPN4qNABPmTF_3It4&m=AeryGl2FBmRS3s4GCGJS5vBjFRWJF7gel4CFup8Xjq0&s=4h9Txys5TAhopG9pNnWtLfd_Xnb6OmxJvlSQrQNcDzw&e=> preview available - 2011
> 
> Abstract
> Many millions of people hold conspiracy theories; they believe powerful people have worked together to withhold the truth about some important practice or some terrible event. A recent example is the belief, widespread in some parts of the world, that the attacks of 9/11 were carried out not by Al Qaeda, but by Israel or the United States. Those who subscribe to conspiracy theories may create serious risks, including risks of violence, and the existence of such theories raises significant challenges for policy and law. The first challenge is to understand the mechanisms by which conspiracy theories prosper; the second challenge is to understand how such theories might be undermined. Such theories typically spread as a result of identifiable cognitive blunders, operating in conjunction with informational and reputational influences. A distinctive feature of conspiracy theories is their self-sealing quality not likely to be persuaded by attempt to dispel their theories;  may even characterize that very attempt as further proof of the conspiracy. Because those who hold conspiracy theories typically suffer from a crippled epistemology, in accordance with which it is rational to hold such theories, the best response consists in cognitive infiltration...
> B-1557022) and the Strategic Environmental Research and  Development Program (SERDP, RC 2635) of the U.S. Department of Defense.
> Here, we show the stability of HCoV-19 and SARS-CoV-1 under experimental  circumstances tested is similar. Taken together, our results indicate aerosol and fomite transmission of HCoV-19 are plausible, as the virus can remain viable in aerosols for multiple hours and on surfaces up to.....  
> 
> Estimation of COVID-2019 burden and potential for international dissemination of infection from Iran
> <https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.24.20027375v1 <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.medrxiv.org_content_10.1101_2020.02.24.20027375v1&d=DwMFAw&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=r9ggwGWSXULJ3RMEGISCv6oZ9xaPN4qNABPmTF_3It4&m=AeryGl2FBmRS3s4GCGJS5vBjFRWJF7gel4CFup8Xjq0&s=5rdWxQBgyHc56zqWysbKERWkaD0C-0VAEprcx9Z7up8&e=>> doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.24.20027375 <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__doi.org_10.1101_2020.02.24.20027375&d=DwMFAw&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=r9ggwGWSXULJ3RMEGISCv6oZ9xaPN4qNABPmTF_3It4&m=AeryGl2FBmRS3s4GCGJS5vBjFRWJF7gel4CFup8Xjq0&s=WVrQZHBOXkh4V-VZWalMmFO4c3F7e7DdZBIrCO3AoBE&e=>
> 
> 
> The Hidden History of Psychotronic Experimentation on Involuntary human subjects... 
> 8/13/18 <https:// <https://>www.churchofmabusradio.com/2018/08/13/the-hidden-history-of-psychotronic-experimentation-on-involuntary-human-subjects-alex-constantine-1994/> 
> ... The same year, Dr. Jose Delgado ... Rockefeller Foundation..
> 
> The Hidden History of Psychotronic Experimentation on Involuntary Human Subjects ? Alex Constantine ? 1994 
> Psychotronics /delgado mia emailed [https://www.churchofmabusradio.com/2018/08/13/the-hidden-history-of-psychotronic-experimentation-on-involuntary-human-subjects-alex-constantine-1994/ <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.churchofmabusradio.com_2018_08_13_the-2Dhidden-2Dhistory-2Dof-2Dpsychotronic-2Dexperimentation-2Don-2Dinvoluntary-2Dhuman-2Dsubjects-2Dalex-2Dconstantine-2D1994_&d=DwMFAw&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=r9ggwGWSXULJ3RMEGISCv6oZ9xaPN4qNABPmTF_3It4&m=AeryGl2FBmRS3s4GCGJS5vBjFRWJF7gel4CFup8Xjq0&s=-lBUsZrRQUjZ1vIdqrqTQ_eLWVF7XvBZ0cg-WVCMQ-Y&e=>]
> ....On May 6, Dr. Delgado, the Spanish bull-tamer and postwar Yale researcher, closed a lecture on the evolution of the brain at the American Museum of Natural History in New York with the announcement that ?science has developed a new electrical methodology for the study and control of cerebral function in animals and humans.?......Encouraged by progress in transforming human beings into cordless automatons, the CIA picked up the pace... a CIA manual was prepared on the electronic wizardry of Radio-Hypnotic Intracerebral Control (RHIC), originally developed by the Pentagon, according to a 1975 issue of Modern People:.......
> 
> 
> https://www.burbankdigest.com/node/577 <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.burbankdigest.com_node_577&d=DwMFAw&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=r9ggwGWSXULJ3RMEGISCv6oZ9xaPN4qNABPmTF_3It4&m=AeryGl2FBmRS3s4GCGJS5vBjFRWJF7gel4CFup8Xjq0&s=GhRPxNGDLyR-1s9mjU1BlmvGwz4Bd7xz2BXDZxymmto&e=>
> Onward  to US post WW2 global EUGENICS dictatorship 
> 
> 
> 
> REVOLUTIONARY CLASSLESS SOCIETY FOR LIBERATING FUTURE
> MARX: Cap vol 1 ?Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole, i.e., on the side of the class that produces its own product in the form of capital.?
> Lenin: ?It is characteristic of capitalism in general that the ownership of capital is separated from the application of capital to production... Imperialism, the global domination of finance capital, is that highest (last) stage of capitalism in which this separation reaches vast proportions
> 
> LENIN LCW, Vol.22, pp. 238-9.?,,, the briefest possible definition of imperialism... that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. (?) must give a definition of imperialism that will include the following five of its basic features:
> the concentration of production and capital has developed to such a high stage that it has created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life; (2) the merging of bank capital with industrial capital, and the creation, on the basis of this ?finance capital?, of a financial oligarchy; the export of capital as distinguished from the export of commodities acquires exceptional importance; the formation of international monopolist capitalist associations which share the world among themselves, the territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers ...?
> ?People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.?
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From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Sun Mar 15 23:45:39 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 18:45:39 -0500
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Reading About the Black Death with My
 Daughter Amid the Outbreak
In-Reply-To: <F78E9D93-60D9-4985-9A77-77763E82A8C4@newsfromneptune.com>
References: <DA93ECB1.5D8E5%lizburbank@zipcon.net>
 <F78E9D93-60D9-4985-9A77-77763E82A8C4@newsfromneptune.com>
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I hesitated to send this around because much of it is problematic. But, to keep the ball rolling...


> On Mar 15, 2020, at 4:38 PM, C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> Begin forwarded message:
>> 
>> From: Liz Burbank <lizburbank at zipcon.net>
>> Subject: Reading About the Black Death with My Daughter Amid the Outbreak
>> Date: March 15, 2020 at 4:31:13 PM CDT
>> To: Liz Burbank <lizburbank at zipcon.net>
>> 
>>    NUDGE
>> The New Yorker is making its news coverage and analysis of the coronavirus outbreak available for free to all readers. Read our stories here.
>> Reading About the Black Death with My Daughter Amid the Outbreak
>> By Sam Knight A child?s fascination with the fourteenth-century scourge takes a sobering tone as Britain scrambles to stave off a new catastrophe.An illustration of a people throwing bodies in to boats on a canal during the Black Plague....
>> https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/reading-about-the-black-death-with-my-daughter-during-the-coronavirus-
>> 
>> *Update, 13 February, 12:15 p.m.: WHO spokesperson has updated with information in story below, published 12 February
>> Update: 'A bit chaotic.' Christening of new coronavirus and ... Science
>> 2/12/20 <https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/bit-chaotic-christening-new-coronavirus-and-its-disease-name-create-confusion> 
>> expert group says novel coronavirus, now named SARS-CoV-2, ... COVID-19 is a name for the disease, not for the virus that causes it, ..
>> WHO says Europe now epicentre of pandemic
>> <https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00154-w>  
>> 2 days ago ... Europe now become the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, says the ... The bill will provide more than $3 billion to the Centers for Disease Control and ... Other funding will contribute to the global coronavirus response and provide ... between the 104 strains of the coronavirus, named SARS-CoV-2, .
>> 
>> 
>> ... Expert reaction to WHO say COVID-19 can be characterised as a ... coronavirus: classifying 2019-nCoV and naming it SARS-CoV-2 ..
>> 1 day ago ... 13 March 2020 Edition ? COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives. ... Rapid risk assessment: Novel coronavirus disease<https://linksmedicus.com/news/novel-coronavirus-latest-articles-09-february-2020/> 
>> medRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not peer-reviewed) is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. This article is a US Government work .
>> This research was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH). JOL-S and AG were supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA PREEMPT # D18AC00031, and JOL-S was supported by U.S. National Science Foundation (DEB-1557022) Strategic Environmental Research and  Development Program (SERDP, RC 2635) of the U.S. Department of Defense.
>> Here, we show the stability of HCoV-19 and SARS-CoV-1 under experimental  circumstances tested is similar. Taken together, our results indicate aerosol and fomite transmission of HCoV-19 are plausible, as the virus can remain viable in aerosols for multiple hours and on surfaces up to.....  
>> 
>> Estimation of COVID-2019 burden and potential for international dissemination of infection from Iran
>> <https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.24.20027375v1> doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.24.20027375
>> 
>> 
>> *Update, 13 February, 12:15 p.m.: WHO spokesperson has updated with information in story below, published 12 February
>> Update: 'A bit chaotic.' Christening of new coronavirus and ... Science
>> 2/12/20 <https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/bit-chaotic-christening-new-coronavirus-and-its-disease-name-create-confusion> 
>> expert group says novel coronavirus, now named SARS-CoV-2, ... COVID-19 is a name for the disease, not for the virus that causes it, ..
>> WHO says Europe now epicentre of pandemic
>> <https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00154-w>  
>> 2 days ago ... Europe now become the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, says the ... The bill will provide more than $3 billion to the Centers for Disease Control and ... Other funding will contribute to the global coronavirus response and provide ... between the 104 strains of the coronavirus, named SARS-CoV-2, .
>> 
>> 
>> ... Expert reaction to WHO say COVID-19 can be characterised as a ... coronavirus: classifying 2019-nCoV and naming it SARS-CoV-2 ..
>> 1 day ago ... 13 March 2020 Edition ? COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Latest Articles, Guidelines, News & Perspectives. ... Rapid risk assessment: Novel coronavirus disease<https://linksmedicus.com/news/novel-coronavirus-latest-articles-09-february-2020/> 
>> medRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not peer-reviewed) is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. This article is a US Government work .
>> This research was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH). JOL-S and AG were supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA PREEMPT # D18AC00031, and JOL-S was supported by U.S. National Science Foundation (DEB-1557022) and Strategic Environmental Research and  Development Program (SERDP, RC 2635) of U.S. Department of Defense.
>> Here, we show the stability of HCoV-19 and SARS-CoV-1 under experimental  circumstances tested is similar. Taken together, our results indicate aerosol and fomite transmission of HCoV-19 are plausible, as the virus can remain viable in aerosols for multiple hours and on surfaces up to.....  
>> 
>> What is the Nudge Unit doing on coronavirus? 
>> <http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=What%20is%20the%20Nudge%20Unit%20doing%20on%20coronavirus%3F%20> 
>> The Nudge Unit is working closely with the Department of Health and Social Care in crafting the government response <https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/covid-19-government-plan> . The most visible manifestation of its influence to date is in the communication around hand-washing and face touching ? in particular the use of ?disgust? as an incentive to wash hands and the suggestion of singing Happy Birthday to ensure hands are washed for the requisite 20 seconds. But it also seems to be influencing the more controversial question over when to move from ?contain? to ?delay? phasing. This is based on evidence about duration of compliance.
>> MINDSPACE Influencing behaviour through public policy
>> 
>> 
>>> 3 MIN VIDEO CASS SUNSTEIN, NUDGES GRADUATE TO LIBERALISING FASCIST PSYCHIATRIST INFLUENCER
>>> WGBH News   https://www.wgbh.org/news/2018/02/27/news/can-it-happen-here-essayists-trump-signs-authoritarianism-america
>>> February 27, 2018   Greater Boston <https://www.wgbh.org/news/greater-boston>
>>> Could authoritarianism take hold in America? Cass Sunstein, a Harvard professor and former Obama administration official, said he thinks it?s ?highly improbable? our democracy would reach that point, but that our country remains vulnerable.
>>> The question is the centerpiece of a new book edited by Sunstein titled, ?Can It Happen Here? Authoritarianism in America,? a collection of essays by some of the nation?s leading theorists, historians, and thinkers.  Among them is Martha Minow, former dean of Harvard Law School, who joined Sunstein Tuesday for an interview here on Greater Boston ?When Cass asked me to participate, I jumped at the chance because of the issues that have arisen since the election and during the campaign,? Minow said.
>> Sunstein, Obama White House Office Administrator of Information and Regulatory Affairs, said the book is not explicitly about President Donald Trump, but instead highlights the ?occasional vulnerability? that some of our institutions face. Much of the conversation focused on the erosion of trust in the free press and the state of the judiciary ? both of which have been criticized by Trump.... 
>> 
>> Dr Jos? Delgado. Director of Neuropsychiatry, Yale University Medical School
>> Congressional Record, No. 26, Vol. 118 February 24, 1974. 
>> "We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated. The individual may think the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective. Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electronically control the brain. Someday armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain.".... 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ... suffer crippled epistemology, in accordance with which it is rational to hold such theories... the best response consists in cognitive infiltration.
>> CASS SUNSTEIN: OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ?INFO CZAR?
>> COGNITIVE INFILTRATION fascist behavioral psychology ?NUDGES? mental health for new world order
>> This brief essay offers a general introduction to the idea of nudging...most important ?nudges?..,to create some separate ?behavioral insights unit?conducting its research, or rely on existing institutions. Keywords: nudges, behavioral science, freedom of choice, behavioral insights team...
>> Former Chicago and Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein,... 2008 co-authored a plan for the government to prevent the spread of anti-government "conspiracy theories," in which he advocated use of anonymous government agent "cognitive infiltration" to break them up,,,  in 2009 was appointed by President Barack Obama to direct an important executive....
>> (?information czar?}.... Griffin uses both satire and overwhelming evidence... Griffin author over 30 books, professor of philosophy of religion and theology emeritus,Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University, CA
>> Cognitive Infiltration: Obama Appointee Plan...<https://books.google.com/books?No preview available - 2011
>> 
>> Abstract
>> Many millions of people hold conspiracy theories; they believe powerful people have worked together to withhold the truth about some important practice or some terrible event. A recent example is the belief, widespread in some parts of the world, that the attacks of 9/11 were carried out not by Al Qaeda, but by Israel or the United States. Those who subscribe to conspiracy theories may create serious risks, including risks of violence, and the existence of such theories raises significant challenges for policy and law. The first challenge is to understand the mechanisms by which conspiracy theories prosper; the second challenge is to understand how such theories might be undermined. Such theories typically spread as a result of identifiable cognitive blunders, operating in conjunction with informational and reputational influences. A distinctive feature of conspiracy theories is their self-sealing quality not likely to be persuaded by attempt to dispel their theories;  may even characterize that very attempt as further proof of the conspiracy. Because those who hold conspiracy theories typically suffer from a crippled epistemology, in accordance with which it is rational to hold such theories, the best response consists in cognitive infiltration...
>> B-1557022) and the Strategic Environmental Research and  Development Program (SERDP, RC 2635) of the U.S. Department of Defense.
>> Here, we show the stability of HCoV-19 and SARS-CoV-1 under experimental  circumstances tested is similar. Taken together, our results indicate aerosol and fomite transmission of HCoV-19 are plausible, as the virus can remain viable in aerosols for multiple hours and on surfaces up to.....  
>> 
>> Estimation of COVID-2019 burden and potential for international dissemination of infection from Iran
>> <https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.24.20027375v1> doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.24.20027375
>> 
>> 
>> The Hidden History of Psychotronic Experimentation on Involuntary human subjects... 
>> 8/13/18 <https://www.churchofmabusradio.com/2018/08/13/the-hidden-history-of-psychotronic-experimentation-on-involuntary-human-subjects-alex-constantine-1994/> 
>> ... The same year, Dr. Jose Delgado ... Rockefeller Foundation..
>> 
>> The Hidden History of Psychotronic Experimentation on Involuntary Human Subjects ? Alex Constantine ? 1994 
>> Psychotronics /delgado mia emailed [https://www.churchofmabusradio.com/2018/08/13/the-hidden-history-of-psychotronic-experimentation-on-involuntary-human-subjects-alex-constantine-1994/]
>> ....On May 6, Dr. Delgado, the Spanish bull-tamer and postwar Yale researcher, closed a lecture on the evolution of the brain at the American Museum of Natural History in New York with the announcement that ?science has developed a new electrical methodology for the study and control of cerebral function in animals and humans.?......Encouraged by progress in transforming human beings into cordless automatons, the CIA picked up the pace... a CIA manual was prepared on the electronic wizardry of Radio-Hypnotic Intracerebral Control (RHIC), originally developed by the Pentagon, according to a 1975 issue of Modern People:.......
>> 	?
>> 
>> 
>> https://www.burbankdigest.com/node/577
>> Onward  to US post WW2 global EUGENICS dictatorship 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> REVOLUTIONARY CLASSLESS SOCIETY FOR LIBERATING FUTURE
>> MARX: Cap vol 1 ?Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole, i.e., on the side of the class that produces its own product in the form of capital.?
>> Lenin: ?It is characteristic of capitalism in general that the ownership of capital is separated from the application of capital to production... Imperialism, the global domination of finance capital, is that highest (last) stage of capitalism in which this separation reaches vast proportions
>> 
>> LENIN LCW, Vol.22, pp. 238-9.?,,, the briefest possible definition of imperialism... that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. (?) must give a definition of imperialism that will include the following five of its basic features:
>> the concentration of production and capital has developed to such a high stage that it has created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life; (2) the merging of bank capital with industrial capital, and the creation, on the basis of this ?finance capital?, of a financial oligarchy; the export of capital as distinguished from the export of commodities acquires exceptional importance; the formation of international monopolist capitalist associations which share the world among themselves, the territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers ...?
>> ?People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Mon Mar 16 15:41:14 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 10:41:14 -0500
Subject: [Peace] No new programs on UPTV
Message-ID: <80174A7B-00BE-474E-A8C5-B325706CF1D8@newsfromneptune.com>

http://urbanapublictelevision.yolasite.com/UPTV-Facilities-Closed-Through-April-6-2020.php?fbclid=IwAR23ygwGH2NEb9QAjQiNg5GBi7D4Ot1qAe-bVF2nusVICkwK0z5fqrgQXWA

From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Tue Mar 17 00:44:49 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 19:44:49 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Job description
References: <3A298FFA-216F-4539-B7D3-FA51BDCB66B4@mac.com>
Message-ID: <031B9B6A-27B9-4E48-9C85-ED686795A5E1@newsfromneptune.com>

Political friends?

For 20 years I?ve used these lists for anti-war and political matters. 
This message is to publicize a position at our downtown Champaign condominium (?Park Place?).
I?d be happy to have you pass it along to anyone who might be appropriate. 

Regards,  CGE

> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: Mary Avelis <mavelis at mac.com>
> Subject: Job description
> Date: March 16, 2020 at 11:27:56 AM CDT
> 
> The attached file is the job description for Park Place's Maintanence/Groundskeeper position. It will be in the New Gazette this Wednesday and available on the website for 30 days without the required and preferred qualifications. 
> 
> If you know of someone, who might be interested please share this with them. If you need more copies, please let me know.
> 
> Thanks and stay healthy,
> 
> mm
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From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Tue Mar 17 19:49:27 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 14:49:27 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Al-Monitor Daily Briefing: Iran hard-liners storm
 shrines closed due to coronavirus
References: <20200317132314.19748387.26431@sailthru.com>
Message-ID: <F4793F2E-2D84-44CD-8F22-312C4C139D1A@newsfromneptune.com>



> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: Al-Monitor <newsletter at al-monitor.com>
> Subject: Al-Monitor Daily Briefing: Iran hard-liners storm shrines closed due to coronavirus
> Date: March 17, 2020 at 12:23:14 PM CDT
> To: cge at shout.net
> 
>  
> If you have trouble reading this email, view it in a browser <https://linkst.al-monitor.com/view/59e67f753f92a41ffcf27648br9yb.ke7/a335acd3>.
>  
>  <https://linkst.al-monitor.com/click/19748387.26431/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5hbC1tb25pdG9yLmNvbS9wdWxzZS9ob21lLmh0bWw_dXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPTIwMjAwMzE3JnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9c2FpbHRocnUmdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbA/59e67f753f92a41ffcf27648Ba011f635>	 <https://linkst.al-monitor.com/click/19748387.26431/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZmFjZWJvb2suY29tL2FsbW9uaXRvcj91dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249MjAyMDAzMTcmdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1zYWlsdGhydSZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWls/59e67f753f92a41ffcf27648B84e2f6d3>  <https://linkst.al-monitor.com/click/19748387.26431/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudHdpdHRlci5jb20vYWxtb25pdG9yP3V0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj0yMDIwMDMxNyZ1dG1fc291cmNlPXNhaWx0aHJ1JnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWw/59e67f753f92a41ffcf27648B6a2555a0>  <https://linkst.al-monitor.com/click/19748387.26431/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5zdGFncmFtLmNvbS9hbG1vbml0b3I_dXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPTIwMjAwMzE3JnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9c2FpbHRocnUmdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbA/59e67f753f92a41ffcf27648B1c10a214>  <https://linkst.al-monitor.com/click/19748387.26431/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5hbC1tb25pdG9yLmNvbS9yc3M_dXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPTIwMjAwMzE3JnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9c2FpbHRocnUmdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbA/59e67f753f92a41ffcf27648B72ac92ff>
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> EDITOR'S PICKS	Tuesday, March 17	|	Daily Briefing
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>  <https://linkst.al-monitor.com/click/19748387.26431/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5hbC1tb25pdG9yLmNvbS9wdWxzZS9vcmlnaW5hbHMvMjAyMC8wMy9pcmFuLWhhcmRsaW5lcnMtc3Rvcm0tc2hyaW5lcy1jb3JvbmF2aXJ1cy1xb20tbWFzaGhhZC5odG1sP3V0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj0yMDIwMDMxNyZ1dG1fc291cmNlPXNhaWx0aHJ1JnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWw/59e67f753f92a41ffcf27648Bb2209ca4>
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> Iran
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> Iran hard-liners storm shrines closed due to coronavirus
>  <https://linkst.al-monitor.com/click/19748387.26431/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5hbC1tb25pdG9yLmNvbS9wdWxzZS9vcmlnaW5hbHMvMjAyMC8wMy9pcmFuLWhhcmRsaW5lcnMtc3Rvcm0tc2hyaW5lcy1jb3JvbmF2aXJ1cy1xb20tbWFzaGhhZC5odG1sP3V0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj0yMDIwMDMxNyZ1dG1fc291cmNlPXNhaWx0aHJ1JnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWw/59e67f753f92a41ffcf27648Cb2209ca4>
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> Groups of Iranian Shiite hard-liners briefly unsealed holy shrines in Qom and Mashhad in protest of the government's closure against the coronavirus epidemic.
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> Washington
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> Reports: US to reposition troops in Iraq
>  <https://linkst.al-monitor.com/click/19748387.26431/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5hbC1tb25pdG9yLmNvbS9wdWxzZS9vcmlnaW5hbHMvMjAyMC8wMy91cy10cm9vcHMtcmVwb3NpdGlvbi1pcmFxLXN0cmlrZS1pcmFuLmh0bWw_dXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPTIwMjAwMzE3JnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9c2FpbHRocnUmdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbA/59e67f753f92a41ffcf27648B664230a5>
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> After two rocket attacks within a week on American troops in Iraq, the United States is preparing to reposition forces there.
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> Netanyahu wants an emergency government of Jews only
>  <https://linkst.al-monitor.com/click/19748387.26431/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5hbC1tb25pdG9yLmNvbS9wdWxzZS9vcmlnaW5hbHMvMjAyMC8wMy9pc3JhZWwtYXJhYnMtYmVuamFtaW4tbmV0YW55YWh1LWJlbm55LWdhbnR6LWNvcm9uYXZpcnVzLmh0bWw_dXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPTIwMjAwMzE3JnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9c2FpbHRocnUmdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbA/59e67f753f92a41ffcf27648Bdc8f4522>
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> For Tunisia, recovery means modernizing economy
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> Morocco shows support for Egypt in conflict with Ethiopia over Nile Dam
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From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen)
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 14:51:38 -0700
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Statement by the Party for Socialism and Liberation on
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> Statement by the Party for Socialism and Liberation on the ongoing COVID-19 health crisis
> 
> With the rapidly deepening global spread of COVID-19, the World Health Organization of the UN declared a pandemic March 11.
> 
> China?s massive coordinated tackling of the virus has brought the disease under control there. In all of China, only 15 new cases of infected individuals were reported on March 11, eight from Hubei province where the disease first began. It is an amazing feat made possible only by a centralized and determined government policy.
> 
> Contrary to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo?s outright lie that China had hidden information on the virus, China made available to the world the virus?s genome on Jan. 10 so researchers could work to develop a vaccine. This was three days after the virus was identified.
> 
> But in the United States, the opposite is taking place. With non-existent national health care, cuts in social services, workers with no guaranteed paid sick or vacation pay, and the severe shortage of testing kits to quickly identify and isolate people who test positive, a potential catastrophe is looming.
> 
> There is absolutely no national plan of any kind.
> 
> On March 11, Trump appeared on national TV to speak of emergency measures. Up to now, he had downplayed the seriousness of the virus, claiming it to be similar to the flu. The flu mortality average is 0.1 percent, while the COVID-19 mortality rate is as high as 3 percent in many places.
> 
> Relief lines for capitalists only
> 
> Trump said he would ask Congress to aid workers who are quarantined, without providing specifics. He called for the Small Business Administration to provide capital and liquidity for those ?in affected states,? and called on Congress to provide payroll tax relief for corporations.
> 
> On March 10, after meeting with the executives of Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and Citigroup at the White House, the administration floated the idea of $700 billion in payroll tax cuts. This new tax break would be on top of the trillion-dollar cut signed by Trump into law in 2017. That law dropped the previous top tax for the highest-profiting U.S. corporations from 35 percent in 2016 to an abysmal 11 percent paid last year by corporate giants.
> 
> On March 12, the Federal Reserve announced an unprecedented $1.5 trillion to bail out Wall Street. This is an amount equal to the outstanding student debt which we are told can never be forgiven.
> 
> Handouts to Wall Street, slashing conglomerates? taxes mean major cuts in social services and a greater tax burden on the working class and poor.
> 
> COVID-19 and the latest stock market crash reveals the capitalist system in its most brutal form. The capitalists cause the financial crisis with their banking and stock market speculation, but when they fail and get ?rescued,? the people pay in foreclosures, evictions, layoffs and greater poverty.
> 
> Although the Democratic Party leadership is countering Trump?s proposal by calling for $40 billion in emergency relief, much more is needed financially and with state-of-emergency declarations. Otherwise, if homeless people are exposed without care, seniors isolated while staff is reduced, tenants evicted, and homeowners foreclosed only to face a permanent state of destitution, huge numbers of people could die without proper care.
> 
> Real, effective, compassionate action needed now! Fight the virus, not people!
> 
> The emergency decrees and executive orders of federal, state and local governments are not addressing the real needs to combat the disease and help the people. Tens of millions are already one paycheck away from destitution and homelessness.
> 
> Without sweeping economic measures, a catastrophe of monumental proportions stands to affect tens of millions of people.
> 
> As it stands, people across the United States are left to fend for themselves. Universities are closing down and evicting students from their dorms. Mass layoffs are already happening, in addition to workplaces being transferred to home work. Many workers are sent home with no pay, schools are closed, and parents scramble for childcare.
> 
> The United States has enormous productive capacity to resolve every human being?s needs in the country, employment, housing, health care, education, childcare, secure retirement, a complete overhaul of infrastructure, culture and overall well being. Literally every person could enjoy a full life.
> 
> What stands in the way is the system of private ownership. Under capitalism, every essential need for life is in the hands of the capitalists, who only produce if they can make a profit. And yet it is the working class that produces all the wealth. With socialism, instead of profits as the motive force of society, the common ownership and distribution of wealth allows the working class to run society for the good of all.
> 
> Today, the virus crisis requires emergency measures of national proportions. How will it all be paid for? Rescind the trillion-dollar tax giveaway to the rich! Use that wealth, shut down the Pentagon budget and use the massive wealth to fight the virus and protect the people, both at home and abroad.
> 
> The Party for Socialism and Liberation and La Riva/Peltier presidential campaign calls for an immediate emergency program to combat the virus:
> 
> Full sick pay and 100% unemployment insurance for every worker, no evictions or foreclosures
> 
> Bail out the people, not the banks! Implement an immediate moratorium on layoffs. Expand unemployment insurance to cover 100 percent of wages lost due to closings or layoffs, illness or if a worker is caring for a sick person. There should be an immediate moratorium on utility shutoffs, evictions and foreclosures, with no debt accumulation. All these measures should apply to undocumented workers and independent contractors as well. Assistance to small businesses to compensate for their losses. 
> 
> War Time Emergency Production Measures
> 
> Organize the compulsory mass production of critical goods: COVID-19 test kits, ventilators, protective equipment and medical equipment at cost to meet the urgent need. No profiteering in this crisis! The government has the power to compel companies to produce critical goods, requisition certain types of property and expand production, impose price controls, and allocate raw materials for the ?national defense.? The government must use these powers now and end shortages of all critical goods needed to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic, including to protect frontline medical and social services personnel. 
> 
> Free Healthcare
> 
> Free testing only works with free treatment. Healthcare must be provided for free for all. If you couldn?t afford a test, how can you afford treatment? The government can set up, through existing Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services infrastructure to cover all costs for the uninsured and underinsured. 
> 
> Secure Housing and Food For All
> 
> Empty dwellings should be immediately requisitioned to provide shelter for all people without housing. There are roughly 16 million vacant dwellings in the United States. As many housing units as needed should be provided for victims of domestic violence. How can you quarantine if you don?t have a home? Immediate emergency shelter and financial support should be provided to all people in need of shelter for any reason.
> 
> Everyone must have easy access to high-quality, nutritious food. Everyone quarantined must be provided for. Building on existing programs like meals-on-wheels and emerging grassroots community networks, a system must be established to provide everyone medically quarantined and especially at risk with the food and medicines they need. Make SNAP food stamps available to all who need, double the monthly amount granted and double income level for eligibility. 
> 
> Strengthen The Public Health System 
> 
> Requisition vacant commercial property for medical use. Re-open closed clinics and hospitals, and build new medical facilities. Mobilize the medical community. Expand sanitation efforts. Any and all vacant commercial, industrial and residential space should be utilized to meet these needs. Retired medical professionals, medical residents and medical students should be mobilized and organized to help strengthen our healthcare infrastructure. 
> 
> Strengthen and expand large-scale sanitation in mass transit and public places. Provide better protective gear for workers and an expanded dedicated workforce.
> 
> Relief not repression
> 
> No one should have to deal with the pandemic while fearing the repressive actions of the police, prisons, ICE or U.S. military. Sanitary conditions should be guaranteed in all prisons and jails. Elderly prisoners and others at heightened risk should be granted compassionate release. Assure that people historically neglected by the government such as Native nations, African American and other oppressed communities have their needs addressed. Stop all ICE deportations, shut down the detention centers. End the devastating economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. government on countries around the world such as Iran, Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea that is blocking the governments? ability to acquire the supplies needed to combat the pandemic.
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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 14:51:38 -0700
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Statement by the Party for Socialism and Liberation on
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> Statement by the Party for Socialism and Liberation on the ongoing COVID-19 health crisis
> 
> With the rapidly deepening global spread of COVID-19, the World Health Organization of the UN declared a pandemic March 11.
> 
> China?s massive coordinated tackling of the virus has brought the disease under control there. In all of China, only 15 new cases of infected individuals were reported on March 11, eight from Hubei province where the disease first began. It is an amazing feat made possible only by a centralized and determined government policy.
> 
> Contrary to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo?s outright lie that China had hidden information on the virus, China made available to the world the virus?s genome on Jan. 10 so researchers could work to develop a vaccine. This was three days after the virus was identified.
> 
> But in the United States, the opposite is taking place. With non-existent national health care, cuts in social services, workers with no guaranteed paid sick or vacation pay, and the severe shortage of testing kits to quickly identify and isolate people who test positive, a potential catastrophe is looming.
> 
> There is absolutely no national plan of any kind.
> 
> On March 11, Trump appeared on national TV to speak of emergency measures. Up to now, he had downplayed the seriousness of the virus, claiming it to be similar to the flu. The flu mortality average is 0.1 percent, while the COVID-19 mortality rate is as high as 3 percent in many places.
> 
> Relief lines for capitalists only
> 
> Trump said he would ask Congress to aid workers who are quarantined, without providing specifics. He called for the Small Business Administration to provide capital and liquidity for those ?in affected states,? and called on Congress to provide payroll tax relief for corporations.
> 
> On March 10, after meeting with the executives of Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and Citigroup at the White House, the administration floated the idea of $700 billion in payroll tax cuts. This new tax break would be on top of the trillion-dollar cut signed by Trump into law in 2017. That law dropped the previous top tax for the highest-profiting U.S. corporations from 35 percent in 2016 to an abysmal 11 percent paid last year by corporate giants.
> 
> On March 12, the Federal Reserve announced an unprecedented $1.5 trillion to bail out Wall Street. This is an amount equal to the outstanding student debt which we are told can never be forgiven.
> 
> Handouts to Wall Street, slashing conglomerates? taxes mean major cuts in social services and a greater tax burden on the working class and poor.
> 
> COVID-19 and the latest stock market crash reveals the capitalist system in its most brutal form. The capitalists cause the financial crisis with their banking and stock market speculation, but when they fail and get ?rescued,? the people pay in foreclosures, evictions, layoffs and greater poverty.
> 
> Although the Democratic Party leadership is countering Trump?s proposal by calling for $40 billion in emergency relief, much more is needed financially and with state-of-emergency declarations. Otherwise, if homeless people are exposed without care, seniors isolated while staff is reduced, tenants evicted, and homeowners foreclosed only to face a permanent state of destitution, huge numbers of people could die without proper care.
> 
> Real, effective, compassionate action needed now! Fight the virus, not people!
> 
> The emergency decrees and executive orders of federal, state and local governments are not addressing the real needs to combat the disease and help the people. Tens of millions are already one paycheck away from destitution and homelessness.
> 
> Without sweeping economic measures, a catastrophe of monumental proportions stands to affect tens of millions of people.
> 
> As it stands, people across the United States are left to fend for themselves. Universities are closing down and evicting students from their dorms. Mass layoffs are already happening, in addition to workplaces being transferred to home work. Many workers are sent home with no pay, schools are closed, and parents scramble for childcare.
> 
> The United States has enormous productive capacity to resolve every human being?s needs in the country, employment, housing, health care, education, childcare, secure retirement, a complete overhaul of infrastructure, culture and overall well being. Literally every person could enjoy a full life.
> 
> What stands in the way is the system of private ownership. Under capitalism, every essential need for life is in the hands of the capitalists, who only produce if they can make a profit. And yet it is the working class that produces all the wealth. With socialism, instead of profits as the motive force of society, the common ownership and distribution of wealth allows the working class to run society for the good of all.
> 
> Today, the virus crisis requires emergency measures of national proportions. How will it all be paid for? Rescind the trillion-dollar tax giveaway to the rich! Use that wealth, shut down the Pentagon budget and use the massive wealth to fight the virus and protect the people, both at home and abroad.
> 
> The Party for Socialism and Liberation and La Riva/Peltier presidential campaign calls for an immediate emergency program to combat the virus:
> 
> Full sick pay and 100% unemployment insurance for every worker, no evictions or foreclosures
> 
> Bail out the people, not the banks! Implement an immediate moratorium on layoffs. Expand unemployment insurance to cover 100 percent of wages lost due to closings or layoffs, illness or if a worker is caring for a sick person. There should be an immediate moratorium on utility shutoffs, evictions and foreclosures, with no debt accumulation. All these measures should apply to undocumented workers and independent contractors as well. Assistance to small businesses to compensate for their losses. 
> 
> War Time Emergency Production Measures
> 
> Organize the compulsory mass production of critical goods: COVID-19 test kits, ventilators, protective equipment and medical equipment at cost to meet the urgent need. No profiteering in this crisis! The government has the power to compel companies to produce critical goods, requisition certain types of property and expand production, impose price controls, and allocate raw materials for the ?national defense.? The government must use these powers now and end shortages of all critical goods needed to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic, including to protect frontline medical and social services personnel. 
> 
> Free Healthcare
> 
> Free testing only works with free treatment. Healthcare must be provided for free for all. If you couldn?t afford a test, how can you afford treatment? The government can set up, through existing Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services infrastructure to cover all costs for the uninsured and underinsured. 
> 
> Secure Housing and Food For All
> 
> Empty dwellings should be immediately requisitioned to provide shelter for all people without housing. There are roughly 16 million vacant dwellings in the United States. As many housing units as needed should be provided for victims of domestic violence. How can you quarantine if you don?t have a home? Immediate emergency shelter and financial support should be provided to all people in need of shelter for any reason.
> 
> Everyone must have easy access to high-quality, nutritious food. Everyone quarantined must be provided for. Building on existing programs like meals-on-wheels and emerging grassroots community networks, a system must be established to provide everyone medically quarantined and especially at risk with the food and medicines they need. Make SNAP food stamps available to all who need, double the monthly amount granted and double income level for eligibility. 
> 
> Strengthen The Public Health System 
> 
> Requisition vacant commercial property for medical use. Re-open closed clinics and hospitals, and build new medical facilities. Mobilize the medical community. Expand sanitation efforts. Any and all vacant commercial, industrial and residential space should be utilized to meet these needs. Retired medical professionals, medical residents and medical students should be mobilized and organized to help strengthen our healthcare infrastructure. 
> 
> Strengthen and expand large-scale sanitation in mass transit and public places. Provide better protective gear for workers and an expanded dedicated workforce.
> 
> Relief not repression
> 
> No one should have to deal with the pandemic while fearing the repressive actions of the police, prisons, ICE or U.S. military. Sanitary conditions should be guaranteed in all prisons and jails. Elderly prisoners and others at heightened risk should be granted compassionate release. Assure that people historically neglected by the government such as Native nations, African American and other oppressed communities have their needs addressed. Stop all ICE deportations, shut down the detention centers. End the devastating economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. government on countries around the world such as Iran, Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea that is blocking the governments? ability to acquire the supplies needed to combat the pandemic.
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From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Tue Mar 17 23:54:48 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:54:48 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: 10 felony charges for exposing Planned Parenthood
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: The Babylon Bee <editor at babylonbee.com>
> Subject: 10 felony charges for exposing Planned Parenthood
> Date: March 17, 2020 at 6:00:22 PM CDT
> To: carl at newsfromneptune.com
> Reply-To: The Babylon Bee <editor at babylonbee.com>
> 
> 
> Please read the message below from our paid sponsor. While the views of this sponsor don't necessarily reflect those of the Babylon Bee, occasional paid messages like these help us continue bringing you the content you love.
> 
> Dear Friend,
>  
> Without your immediate action, the State of California could permanently silence one of the most influential pro-life advocates in America? and millions of preborn and newborn babies will be torn apart limb by limb and left to die.
>  
> You see, journalist David Daleiden ? who famously exposed Planned Parenthood selling baby body parts to the highest bidder ? has been arraigned on 10 felony charges stemming from his undercover investigation.
> 
> Not only does David face a decade in a state penitentiary if a San Francisco jury convicts him.  But he's prohibited from releasing the rest of his incriminating evidence against Planned Parenthood due to 'gag order' injunctions in place from two separate civil lawsuits.
> 
> Never before has an undercover journalist been silenced like this.
> 
> Then again, never before has one person held the key to rocking the abortion industry's world.
> 
> Will you stand with us today to defend David Daleiden and pro-life speech in America? <http://trk.listelixr.net/c/6/?T=OTkyNjA2OTc%3AMDItYjIwMDc3LTNkYmJhMTcwM2YzMzQzYjliNjFkYmQ5ZWIxNjRmMzVm%3AY2FybEBuZXdzZnJvbW5lcHR1bmUuY29t%3AOTA2NjE2ODEy%3AZmFsc2U%3AMA%3A%3AaHR0cHM6Ly9zZWN1cmUuYW5lZG90LmNvbS90aG9tYXNtb3Jlc29jaWV0eS9jYmY1MWQwOTg0NGFiNzFkZjQwZDI_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1lbWFpbA&K=0lnZYa8jezxf1U5TIENiUg>
> 
> My name is Tom Brejcha. I'm the President and Chief Counsel of the Thomas More Society ? a not-for-profit law firm underwriting and helping to spearhead David Daleiden's civil and criminal defense.
> 
> The Thomas More Society is proud to defend many of the most renowned leaders in America's pro-life movement ? because when dark forces like Planned Parenthood unleash their full might to legally, financially and personally destroy our clients ? we fight back.
> 
> But in this case, we're in real danger of jurors delivering Solomonic-type justice ? a 'split verdict' ? that would result in David spending time in a prison cell.
> 
> All because this young man had the courage to lead an undercover investigation that captured video evidence of the abortion goliath conspiring to illegally harvest and sell aborted baby body parts.
> 
> Now we're going to need to put on an over-the-top defense to make sure jurors are not pressured to 'compromise' and convict David of even one of the charges.
> 
> So if you agree it's absolutely outrageous that David is the one facing criminal charges and hard time in a state penitentiary ? rather than Planned Parenthood's executives?
> 
> ?then I pray you'll make an emergency donation to help us defend David and other pro-life heroes today. <http://trk.listelixr.net/c/6/?T=OTkyNjA2OTc%3AMDItYjIwMDc3LTNkYmJhMTcwM2YzMzQzYjliNjFkYmQ5ZWIxNjRmMzVm%3AY2FybEBuZXdzZnJvbW5lcHR1bmUuY29t%3AOTA2NjE2ODEy%3AZmFsc2U%3AMQ%3A%3AaHR0cHM6Ly9zZWN1cmUuYW5lZG90LmNvbS90aG9tYXNtb3Jlc29jaWV0eS9jYmY1MWQwOTg0NGFiNzFkZjQwZDI_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1lbWFpbA&K=r-jUyI3YyMKc_slRB1YuLw>
> 
> You see, altogether David has been sued or prosecuted six times!
> 
> We already defeated a two-count felony and misdemeanor criminal case in Houston and another nasty civil case brought by a baby body parts broker, Stem Express, in Los Angeles was dismissed.
> 
> And right now we're defending David in three other active cases:
> A civil lawsuit filed by the National Abortion Federation in federal court in San Francisco.  (A preliminary ?gag order? injunction prohibits David from releasing more of his videos exposing Planned Parenthood.)
> 
> A separate civil lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood in federal court in San Francisco.  (Late last year a jury found David liable and awarded the abortion giant $1.4 million in damages on racketeering charges and $870,000 in punitive damages.  We are appealing this verdict!)
> 
> A civil lawsuit filed by anonymous Planned Parenthood personnel in federal court in Seattle, Washington.  (We won our first appeal and now our second appeal in that case remains pending and undecided.)
> But despite all that David is facing, his spirits remain high.
> 
> In fact, I know he sees this criminal case as yet another opportunity to drag more of Planned Parenthood's dark criminality into the spotlight.
> 
> My friend, that's what David set out to do ? and that's what you and I can make sure he continues doing by winning this legal battle.
> 
> Now I'll get right down to it... We anticipate David's legal defense will cost us more than $5,000,000. That's right, FIVE MILLION DOLLARS.
> 
> That's why I'm asking you to prayerfully consider a generous, tax-deductible gift of $30, $50, $100 or more today. <http://trk.listelixr.net/c/6/?T=OTkyNjA2OTc%3AMDItYjIwMDc3LTNkYmJhMTcwM2YzMzQzYjliNjFkYmQ5ZWIxNjRmMzVm%3AY2FybEBuZXdzZnJvbW5lcHR1bmUuY29t%3AOTA2NjE2ODEy%3AZmFsc2U%3AMg%3A%3AaHR0cHM6Ly9zZWN1cmUuYW5lZG90LmNvbS90aG9tYXNtb3Jlc29jaWV0eS9jYmY1MWQwOTg0NGFiNzFkZjQwZDI_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1lbWFpbA&K=h1EfHwL4hhDYhTAg_LaeSQ>
> 
> Planned Parenthood has millions of dollars to spend on lawyers and lobbyists ? and they'll stop at nothing to silence David and prevent the truth from coming out.
> 
> So no matter how large or small your donation today, it will be put to immediate use as we go head-to-head with the biggest players in the abortion industry in the courtroom.
> 
> It's a grave injustice that David is the one being hit with felony charges while Planned Parenthood (so far, at least) has gone unprosecuted and unpunished.
> 
> But by clearing David of these charges... you and I can allow him to continue with his incredibly important life-saving work.
> 
> So please follow this link to make your emergency contribution of $30 or more today. <http://trk.listelixr.net/c/6/?T=OTkyNjA2OTc%3AMDItYjIwMDc3LTNkYmJhMTcwM2YzMzQzYjliNjFkYmQ5ZWIxNjRmMzVm%3AY2FybEBuZXdzZnJvbW5lcHR1bmUuY29t%3AOTA2NjE2ODEy%3AZmFsc2U%3AMw%3A%3AaHR0cHM6Ly9zZWN1cmUuYW5lZG90LmNvbS90aG9tYXNtb3Jlc29jaWV0eS9jYmY1MWQwOTg0NGFiNzFkZjQwZDI_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1lbWFpbA&K=8s_RnL75-uJJPo5KcnZE-Q>
> 
> I know David will be deeply touched and encouraged by your generous support.
> 
> May God bless you,
> 
> Tom Brejcha
> President & Chief Counsel
>  
> P.S. This truly is a "David versus Goliath" type of battle.  Planned Parenthood and their allies want to destroy our 'David.' They'd love to see him rotting away in prison rather than exposing their criminal, ghoulish activities. You and I cannot let that happen.  Please follow this link to make your best contribution of $30 or more to stop this attempt to crush David Daleiden and pro-life speech in America. <http://trk.listelixr.net/c/6/?T=OTkyNjA2OTc%3AMDItYjIwMDc3LTNkYmJhMTcwM2YzMzQzYjliNjFkYmQ5ZWIxNjRmMzVm%3AY2FybEBuZXdzZnJvbW5lcHR1bmUuY29t%3AOTA2NjE2ODEy%3AZmFsc2U%3ANA%3A%3AaHR0cHM6Ly9zZWN1cmUuYW5lZG90LmNvbS90aG9tYXNtb3Jlc29jaWV0eS9jYmY1MWQwOTg0NGFiNzFkZjQwZDI_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1lbWFpbA&K=KTTre8oAFf3wg7migJvDTA>
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Wed Mar 18 00:32:26 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen)
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 17:32:26 -0700
Subject: [Peace] FB censorship
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Facebook censored my post in Sunday?s News Gazette. 

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> Joe Biden as president is the choice of the ruling elites to ensure their policies of impoverishing the masses goes unnoticed.
> 
> Their form of imperialism is by way of interventions with the use of proxies, quietly using the CIA, keeping Americans docile as we continue to destroy through coups, and sanctions, rather than bombing and all-out war. They don?t wish to create anti-war mass movements across the nation endangering their power.
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> This faction of the ruling elites thinks strategically and long term, as they represent the oil and fossil fuel industries, banks, Wall Street, etc., as opposed to the current Trump administration representing the other faction of the ruling elites known as the entrepreneurial class, focused on maximizing short-term profits.
> 
> Both represent the powers that be, who care nothing for the working class. They simply represent two separate factions, often referred to as the Establishment, the Ruling Elites, the Deep State.
> 
> They control capital, the centers of economic power, the means of production, with the goal of preserving capitalism and the existing financial order, which requires social peace, not instability. They also want to stop growth and maintain their control of the world.
> 
> Anybody but Bernie is their mandate, who in spite of his poor record on foreign policy supporting imperialism, challenges Wall Street, the banks and the for-profit health care industry, on behalf of the American people.
> 
> KAREN ARAM


> On Mar 17, 2020, at 16:54, C. G. Estabrook via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> Facebook censored this post.
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>> Begin forwarded message:
>> 
>> From: The Babylon Bee <editor at babylonbee.com <mailto:editor at babylonbee.com>>
>> Subject: 10 felony charges for exposing Planned Parenthood
>> Date: March 17, 2020 at 6:00:22 PM CDT
>> To: carl at newsfromneptune.com <mailto:carl at newsfromneptune.com>
>> Reply-To: The Babylon Bee <editor at babylonbee.com <mailto:editor at babylonbee.com>>
>> 
>> 
>> Please read the message below from our paid sponsor. While the views of this sponsor don't necessarily reflect those of the Babylon Bee, occasional paid messages like these help us continue bringing you the content you love.
>> 
>> Dear Friend,
>>  
>> Without your immediate action, the State of California could permanently silence one of the most influential pro-life advocates in America? and millions of preborn and newborn babies will be torn apart limb by limb and left to die.
>>  
>> You see, journalist David Daleiden ? who famously exposed Planned Parenthood selling baby body parts to the highest bidder ? has been arraigned on 10 felony charges stemming from his undercover investigation.
>> 
>> Not only does David face a decade in a state penitentiary if a San Francisco jury convicts him.  But he's prohibited from releasing the rest of his incriminating evidence against Planned Parenthood due to 'gag order' injunctions in place from two separate civil lawsuits.
>> 
>> Never before has an undercover journalist been silenced like this.
>> 
>> Then again, never before has one person held the key to rocking the abortion industry's world.
>> 
>> Will you stand with us today to defend David Daleiden and pro-life speech in America? <http://trk.listelixr.net/c/6/?T=OTkyNjA2OTc%3AMDItYjIwMDc3LTNkYmJhMTcwM2YzMzQzYjliNjFkYmQ5ZWIxNjRmMzVm%3AY2FybEBuZXdzZnJvbW5lcHR1bmUuY29t%3AOTA2NjE2ODEy%3AZmFsc2U%3AMA%3A%3AaHR0cHM6Ly9zZWN1cmUuYW5lZG90LmNvbS90aG9tYXNtb3Jlc29jaWV0eS9jYmY1MWQwOTg0NGFiNzFkZjQwZDI_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1lbWFpbA&K=0lnZYa8jezxf1U5TIENiUg>
>> 
>> My name is Tom Brejcha. I'm the President and Chief Counsel of the Thomas More Society ? a not-for-profit law firm underwriting and helping to spearhead David Daleiden's civil and criminal defense.
>> 
>> The Thomas More Society is proud to defend many of the most renowned leaders in America's pro-life movement ? because when dark forces like Planned Parenthood unleash their full might to legally, financially and personally destroy our clients ? we fight back.
>> 
>> But in this case, we're in real danger of jurors delivering Solomonic-type justice ? a 'split verdict' ? that would result in David spending time in a prison cell.
>> 
>> All because this young man had the courage to lead an undercover investigation that captured video evidence of the abortion goliath conspiring to illegally harvest and sell aborted baby body parts.
>> 
>> Now we're going to need to put on an over-the-top defense to make sure jurors are not pressured to 'compromise' and convict David of even one of the charges.
>> 
>> So if you agree it's absolutely outrageous that David is the one facing criminal charges and hard time in a state penitentiary ? rather than Planned Parenthood's executives?
>> 
>> ?then I pray you'll make an emergency donation to help us defend David and other pro-life heroes today. <http://trk.listelixr.net/c/6/?T=OTkyNjA2OTc%3AMDItYjIwMDc3LTNkYmJhMTcwM2YzMzQzYjliNjFkYmQ5ZWIxNjRmMzVm%3AY2FybEBuZXdzZnJvbW5lcHR1bmUuY29t%3AOTA2NjE2ODEy%3AZmFsc2U%3AMQ%3A%3AaHR0cHM6Ly9zZWN1cmUuYW5lZG90LmNvbS90aG9tYXNtb3Jlc29jaWV0eS9jYmY1MWQwOTg0NGFiNzFkZjQwZDI_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1lbWFpbA&K=r-jUyI3YyMKc_slRB1YuLw>
>> 
>> You see, altogether David has been sued or prosecuted six times!
>> 
>> We already defeated a two-count felony and misdemeanor criminal case in Houston and another nasty civil case brought by a baby body parts broker, Stem Express, in Los Angeles was dismissed.
>> 
>> And right now we're defending David in three other active cases:
>> A civil lawsuit filed by the National Abortion Federation in federal court in San Francisco.  (A preliminary ?gag order? injunction prohibits David from releasing more of his videos exposing Planned Parenthood.)
>> 
>> A separate civil lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood in federal court in San Francisco.  (Late last year a jury found David liable and awarded the abortion giant $1.4 million in damages on racketeering charges and $870,000 in punitive damages.  We are appealing this verdict!)
>> 
>> A civil lawsuit filed by anonymous Planned Parenthood personnel in federal court in Seattle, Washington.  (We won our first appeal and now our second appeal in that case remains pending and undecided.)
>> But despite all that David is facing, his spirits remain high.
>> 
>> In fact, I know he sees this criminal case as yet another opportunity to drag more of Planned Parenthood's dark criminality into the spotlight.
>> 
>> My friend, that's what David set out to do ? and that's what you and I can make sure he continues doing by winning this legal battle.
>> 
>> Now I'll get right down to it... We anticipate David's legal defense will cost us more than $5,000,000. That's right, FIVE MILLION DOLLARS.
>> 
>> That's why I'm asking you to prayerfully consider a generous, tax-deductible gift of $30, $50, $100 or more today. <http://trk.listelixr.net/c/6/?T=OTkyNjA2OTc%3AMDItYjIwMDc3LTNkYmJhMTcwM2YzMzQzYjliNjFkYmQ5ZWIxNjRmMzVm%3AY2FybEBuZXdzZnJvbW5lcHR1bmUuY29t%3AOTA2NjE2ODEy%3AZmFsc2U%3AMg%3A%3AaHR0cHM6Ly9zZWN1cmUuYW5lZG90LmNvbS90aG9tYXNtb3Jlc29jaWV0eS9jYmY1MWQwOTg0NGFiNzFkZjQwZDI_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1lbWFpbA&K=h1EfHwL4hhDYhTAg_LaeSQ>
>> 
>> Planned Parenthood has millions of dollars to spend on lawyers and lobbyists ? and they'll stop at nothing to silence David and prevent the truth from coming out.
>> 
>> So no matter how large or small your donation today, it will be put to immediate use as we go head-to-head with the biggest players in the abortion industry in the courtroom.
>> 
>> It's a grave injustice that David is the one being hit with felony charges while Planned Parenthood (so far, at least) has gone unprosecuted and unpunished.
>> 
>> But by clearing David of these charges... you and I can allow him to continue with his incredibly important life-saving work.
>> 
>> So please follow this link to make your emergency contribution of $30 or more today. <http://trk.listelixr.net/c/6/?T=OTkyNjA2OTc%3AMDItYjIwMDc3LTNkYmJhMTcwM2YzMzQzYjliNjFkYmQ5ZWIxNjRmMzVm%3AY2FybEBuZXdzZnJvbW5lcHR1bmUuY29t%3AOTA2NjE2ODEy%3AZmFsc2U%3AMw%3A%3AaHR0cHM6Ly9zZWN1cmUuYW5lZG90LmNvbS90aG9tYXNtb3Jlc29jaWV0eS9jYmY1MWQwOTg0NGFiNzFkZjQwZDI_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1lbWFpbA&K=8s_RnL75-uJJPo5KcnZE-Q>
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>> I know David will be deeply touched and encouraged by your generous support.
>> 
>> May God bless you,
>> 
>> Tom Brejcha
>> President & Chief Counsel
>>  
>> P.S. This truly is a "David versus Goliath" type of battle.  Planned Parenthood and their allies want to destroy our 'David.' They'd love to see him rotting away in prison rather than exposing their criminal, ghoulish activities. You and I cannot let that happen.  Please follow this link to make your best contribution of $30 or more to stop this attempt to crush David Daleiden and pro-life speech in America. <http://trk.listelixr.net/c/6/?T=OTkyNjA2OTc%3AMDItYjIwMDc3LTNkYmJhMTcwM2YzMzQzYjliNjFkYmQ5ZWIxNjRmMzVm%3AY2FybEBuZXdzZnJvbW5lcHR1bmUuY29t%3AOTA2NjE2ODEy%3AZmFsc2U%3ANA%3A%3AaHR0cHM6Ly9zZWN1cmUuYW5lZG90LmNvbS90aG9tYXNtb3Jlc29jaWV0eS9jYmY1MWQwOTg0NGFiNzFkZjQwZDI_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1lbWFpbA&K=KTTre8oAFf3wg7migJvDTA>
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From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Wed Mar 18 00:58:33 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 19:58:33 -0500
Subject: [Peace] FB censorship
In-Reply-To: <DM6PR13MB28755863179AD30644216531A3F70@DM6PR13MB2875.namprd13.prod.outlook.com>
References: <1608713707.145334626.1584486022068.JavaMail.cloud@mta0102.messagegears.net>
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Try <vk.com>. Pepe Escobar has moved there, from fb - as the latter pleads for respectability, in Biden?s America?

"VK (short for its original name VKontakte; Russian: ??????????, meaning InContact) is a Russian online social media and social networking service based in Saint Petersburg. VK is available in multiple languages but it is predominantly used by Russian-speakers. VK allows users to message each other publicly or privately; create groups, public pages, and events; share and tag images, audio, and video; and play browser-based games.[5]
As of August 2018, VK had at least 500 million accounts.[6] VK is ranked 19th (as of August 2019)[7] in Alexa's global Top 500 sites. It is the most popular website in Russia.[8]
According to SimilarWeb, VK is the 14th most visited website in the world.? Wikipedia


> On Mar 17, 2020, at 7:32 PM, Karen <karenaram at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Facebook censored my post in Sunday?s News Gazette. 
> 
>> 	? Email
>> 	? Print
>> 	? Save
>> Joe Biden as president is the choice of the ruling elites to ensure their policies of impoverishing the masses goes unnoticed.
>> 
>> Their form of imperialism is by way of interventions with the use of proxies, quietly using the CIA, keeping Americans docile as we continue to destroy through coups, and sanctions, rather than bombing and all-out war. They don?t wish to create anti-war mass movements across the nation endangering their power.
>> 
>> This faction of the ruling elites thinks strategically and long term, as they represent the oil and fossil fuel industries, banks, Wall Street, etc., as opposed to the current Trump administration representing the other faction of the ruling elites known as the entrepreneurial class, focused on maximizing short-term profits.
>> 
>> Both represent the powers that be, who care nothing for the working class. They simply represent two separate factions, often referred to as the Establishment, the Ruling Elites, the Deep State.
>> 
>> They control capital, the centers of economic power, the means of production, with the goal of preserving capitalism and the existing financial order, which requires social peace, not instability. They also want to stop growth and maintain their control of the world.
>> 
>> Anybody but Bernie is their mandate, who in spite of his poor record on foreign policy supporting imperialism, challenges Wall Street, the banks and the for-profit health care industry, on behalf of the American people.
>> 
>> KAREN ARAM
> 
> 
>> On Mar 17, 2020, at 16:54, C. G. Estabrook via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Facebook censored this post.
>> 
>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>> 
>>> From: The Babylon Bee <editor at babylonbee.com>
>>> Subject: 10 felony charges for exposing Planned Parenthood
>>> Date: March 17, 2020 at 6:00:22 PM CDT
>>> To: carl at newsfromneptune.com
>>> Reply-To: The Babylon Bee <editor at babylonbee.com>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Please read the message below from our paid sponsor. While the views of this sponsor don't necessarily reflect those of the Babylon Bee, occasional paid messages like these help us continue bringing you the content you love.
>>> 
>>> Dear Friend,
>>>  
>>> Without your immediate action, the State of California could permanently silence one of the most influential pro-life advocates in America? and millions of preborn and newborn babies will be torn apart limb by limb and left to die.
>>>  
>>> You see, journalist David Daleiden ? who famously exposed Planned Parenthood selling baby body parts to the highest bidder ? has been arraigned on 10 felony charges stemming from his undercover investigation.
>>> 
>>> Not only does David face a decade in a state penitentiary if a San Francisco jury convicts him.  But he's prohibited from releasing the rest of his incriminating evidence against Planned Parenthood due to 'gag order' injunctions in place from two separate civil lawsuits.
>>> 
>>> Never before has an undercover journalist been silenced like this.
>>> 
>>> Then again, never before has one person held the key to rocking the abortion industry's world.
>>> 
>>> Will you stand with us today to defend David Daleiden and pro-life speech in America?
>>> 
>>> My name is Tom Brejcha. I'm the President and Chief Counsel of the Thomas More Society ? a not-for-profit law firm underwriting and helping to spearhead David Daleiden's civil and criminal defense.
>>> 
>>> The Thomas More Society is proud to defend many of the most renowned leaders in America's pro-life movement ? because when dark forces like Planned Parenthood unleash their full might to legally, financially and personally destroy our clients ? we fight back.
>>> 
>>> But in this case, we're in real danger of jurors delivering Solomonic-type justice ? a 'split verdict' ? that would result in David spending time in a prison cell.
>>> 
>>> All because this young man had the courage to lead an undercover investigation that captured video evidence of the abortion goliath conspiring to illegally harvest and sell aborted baby body parts.
>>> 
>>> Now we're going to need to put on an over-the-top defense to make sure jurors are not pressured to 'compromise' and convict David of even one of the charges.
>>> 
>>> So if you agree it's absolutely outrageous that David is the one facing criminal charges and hard time in a state penitentiary ? rather than Planned Parenthood's executives?
>>> 
>>> ?then I pray you'll make an emergency donation to help us defend David and other pro-life heroes today.
>>> 
>>> You see, altogether David has been sued or prosecuted six times!
>>> 
>>> We already defeated a two-count felony and misdemeanor criminal case in Houston and another nasty civil case brought by a baby body parts broker, Stem Express, in Los Angeles was dismissed.
>>> 
>>> And right now we're defending David in three other active cases:
>>> 	? A civil lawsuit filed by the National Abortion Federation in federal court in San Francisco.  (A preliminary ?gag order? injunction prohibits David from releasing more of his videos exposing Planned Parenthood.)
>>> 
>>> 	? A separate civil lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood in federal court in San Francisco.  (Late last year a jury found David liable and awarded the abortion giant $1.4 million in damages on racketeering charges and $870,000 in punitive damages.  We are appealing this verdict!)
>>> 
>>> 	? A civil lawsuit filed by anonymous Planned Parenthood personnel in federal court in Seattle, Washington.  (We won our first appeal and now our second appeal in that case remains pending and undecided.)
>>> But despite all that David is facing, his spirits remain high.
>>> 
>>> In fact, I know he sees this criminal case as yet another opportunity to drag more of Planned Parenthood's dark criminality into the spotlight.
>>> 
>>> My friend, that's what David set out to do ? and that's what you and I can make sure he continues doing by winning this legal battle.
>>> 
>>> Now I'll get right down to it... We anticipate David's legal defense will cost us more than $5,000,000. That's right, FIVE MILLION DOLLARS.
>>> 
>>> That's why I'm asking you to prayerfully consider a generous, tax-deductible gift of $30, $50, $100 or more today.
>>> 
>>> Planned Parenthood has millions of dollars to spend on lawyers and lobbyists ? and they'll stop at nothing to silence David and prevent the truth from coming out.
>>> 
>>> So no matter how large or small your donation today, it will be put to immediate use as we go head-to-head with the biggest players in the abortion industry in the courtroom.
>>> 
>>> It's a grave injustice that David is the one being hit with felony charges while Planned Parenthood (so far, at least) has gone unprosecuted and unpunished.
>>> 
>>> But by clearing David of these charges... you and I can allow him to continue with his incredibly important life-saving work.
>>> 
>>> So please follow this link to make your emergency contribution of $30 or more today.
>>> 
>>> I know David will be deeply touched and encouraged by your generous support.
>>> 
>>> May God bless you,
>>> 
>>> Tom Brejcha
>>> President & Chief Counsel
>>>  
>>> P.S. This truly is a "David versus Goliath" type of battle.  Planned Parenthood and their allies want to destroy our 'David.' They'd love to see him rotting away in prison rather than exposing their criminal, ghoulish activities. You and I cannot let that happen.  Please follow this link to make your best contribution of $30 or more to stop this attempt to crush David Daleiden and pro-life speech in America.
>>> Donate Now
>>> 
>>> The Thomas More Society is a not-for-profit, national public interest law firm dedicated to restoring respect in law for life, family, and religious liberty.
>>>  
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From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Wed Mar 18 13:45:24 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 08:45:24 -0500
Subject: [Peace]
 China-says-Japan-developed-drug-Avigan-works-against-coronavirus
Message-ID: <152CF123-78ED-42B6-90BE-DB44E646D88B@newsfromneptune.com>

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/China-says-Japan-developed-drug-Avigan-works-against-coronavirus

From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Wed Mar 18 14:06:28 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 09:06:28 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Present crisis
Message-ID: <3F89D93A-811D-464A-A852-DF93CCBFF294@newsfromneptune.com>

The present crisis has the possibility of reshaping the country in a social democratic direction, by establishing the principle that the federal government has the responsibility of providing an adequate level of support and a decent standard of living for every American.

We need a fission in the Democrat party (like the Whigs in 1854) and the establishment of a party that will run a Sanders-Gabbard ticket.

?CGE


From divisek at yahoo.com  Wed Mar 18 15:47:10 2020
From: divisek at yahoo.com (Dianna Visek)
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:47:10 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Peace] Champaign City Council gives mayor power to impose curfew,
 seize private property
References: <1329732790.259672.1584546430961.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
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From cgestabrook at gmail.com  Wed Mar 18 19:44:18 2020
From: cgestabrook at gmail.com (C G Estabrook)
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 14:44:18 -0500
Subject: [Peace] I'd like to share a link with you
Message-ID: <CAN_ZZBPNdWO+NXnaUT_9AiO2LLHLnbiWGPuRXdj_MxLPw8WxwQ@mail.gmail.com>

https://www.precisionvaccinations.com/avigan-favipiravir-t-705-broad-spectrum-inhibitor-viral-rna-polymerase
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From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Thu Mar 19 20:31:15 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 15:31:15 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: All U.S. Troops Out of Iraq Now
References: <5e737bab67d61_b0a83fdc8fd87f2414157d9@ip-10-0-0-214.mail>
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> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: World BEYOND War <info at worldbeyondwar.org>
> Subject: All U.S. Troops Out of Iraq Now
> Date: March 19, 2020 at 9:03:23 AM CDT
> To: cgestabrook at gmail.com
> Reply-To: info at worldbeyondwar.org
> 
>  <https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mps2/c/HQE/ni0YAA/t.307/1X4DuZIrRy-wkLdsfj_sOA/h0/aw3zVkRECbVHWdE16RGtNUxe2dAucu-2BAqZakX-2FxU8HV2o40673mjGLPyROHXjCvcQSPMRHbHiMlV6d2cGk6cZSVKfnAxq738Qzn-2B-2Fu01PX4uqFsgcimP1PeGVt-2F-2FxXv8LuEWUXVm3YprmunGWPEeDDbgaSs9WhY8iN-2BcfRPSIs8upjIS7cByLLY4VQdjcen8L-2Bl9cWr7MBERkCscdVokwnLe-2FvrA7e20O5LDFaGXGN6SffwRT5a9BCLKJzdCRROU/nXDF>
> The mass killing and destruction of Iraq that began 17 years ago today, assessed by the most scientifically respected measures available, killed over 1.4 million Iraqis.
> 
> Join us now in demanding once and for all: U.S. troops out of Iraq! <https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mps2/c/HQE/ni0YAA/t.307/1X4DuZIrRy-wkLdsfj_sOA/h1/CA0gLXQEKb6jqGkD7RqZiVCso-2FILbuaAIEEtVZapgA-2FG5qGEho5q-2FPoU36yIe8mN8ZC6z4rBX1CT-2BWwtUdc3MyzyJxtY3Z2RKqsGf12Lmp6FcYGHqwyByhVExc7NbNmsH2aBWgYqU-2Fb3DJJa5cQDCh7baxs3Yz2ToibcAqBWHGkxfk0vkuMt2Z5jf9Mxjba1MNuX3LXnm2Ae-2FPBO99AgByMlq48DPSkSKxiRoQr3F-2BscofO-2F2x0ucSyWMMj8niC0aHx8ozr-2Fr00hzguhgbXzHSuVeUm-2BMoVw-2Bu2OYppGioo-3D/nfAy>
>  <https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mps2/c/HQE/ni0YAA/t.307/1X4DuZIrRy-wkLdsfj_sOA/h2/CA0gLXQEKb6jqGkD7RqZiVCso-2FILbuaAIEEtVZapgA-2FG5qGEho5q-2FPoU36yIe8mN8ZC6z4rBX1CT-2BWwtUdc3M2K7qP5aigz2IL-2FaNnUqNUdRBGvuq64CVWviWNUiRtyUTRxNGg34L7LnrdpqS6MwN4l-2FX7UUTH3OI2veG-2FOkCXA7Ho3uAfs9gomDZ1XyT6nDx5AjHJDH5k8J5dhLPcvChH7M5YzX4RLaPsD7QA0osD0TqRkn2kYL79CpZdxVZQkYBVYPa94cyPdF1vBaS4CpvuGjWTVb9r-2FHBUL0POTQ0oc-3D/LsuY>
> While U.S. troops have been reduced in Iraq, they have never been removed. In January, the Iraqi Parliament voted that all U.S. troops should leave. The U.S. government has refused to leave, and has instead proposed installing ("defensive") missiles in Iraq targeting Iran. While Iran is depicted in U.S. media as an evil enemy, the U.S. military does not claim that Iran is a threat to the actual United States, only to U.S. troops near Iran and U.S. "interests." The refusal to leave and the decision to install missiles endanger Iraq, Iran, the entire region, and a world at risk of nuclear escalation and climate collapse that cannot afford any more wars.
> 
> The terrorist attack on Baghdad 17 years ago, which was intended to ?shock and awe? people into terror and submission, followed months of pro-war propaganda in U.S. corporate media and from the U.S. government.
> 
> Senate Foreign Relations Chair Joe Biden promoted the White House?s lies about weapons of mass destruction, pushed hard for war, and orchestrated hearings that excluded dissenting voices.
> 
> Many were fooled or claimed to be. Donald Trump?s last public comment on the war before it started was that he supported it.
> 
> It is now popular in U.S. politics to deny having supported the war, even to claim to have ended it. But there is virtually no discussion of the moral and practical necessity of complying with the wishes of the Iraqi government ? wishes that line up with a demand that many of us have been making for exactly 17 years ? to withdraw all U.S. troops and mercenaries and bases and weapons from Iraqi soil.
> 
> Click here to join us in making that demand. We'll be able to do more with this petition if you've signed it and if you've asked others to sign it too. <https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mps2/c/HQE/ni0YAA/t.307/1X4DuZIrRy-wkLdsfj_sOA/h3/CA0gLXQEKb6jqGkD7RqZiVCso-2FILbuaAIEEtVZapgA-2FG5qGEho5q-2FPoU36yIe8mN8ZC6z4rBX1CT-2BWwtUdc3M4F6vkSmWRGOBoIt9Fqhj8wdInu2YOBfg9mZUIDB-2FyqotXyvrVm-2Br8fFisD-2FU-2B9rFy197liN5Pf-2B9yuVSsW9P71RTZnl377d-2FdRhsyFc2tlGZCMyrdc1z57rtzYyd-2BIbop6OR-2BGuYwKbfbXl0Ii8JI0vQrJ7bj3XNJKicedbmpiO3SJvBCiBir3-2B0x9cjXWR-2BESFQi2L4IxTw-2FY9XT-2BZjDo-3D/0GNT>
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> >> CNN: ?Iraqi Parliament Votes for Plan to End U.S. Troop Presence in Iraq After Soleimani Killing? <https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mps2/c/HQE/ni0YAA/t.307/1X4DuZIrRy-wkLdsfj_sOA/h6/YezmGHf9FoazvKIdtopakvF-2FeHJ5gbtdicCxPetIercV35KwnhntLHmqFnRLruoLh56K1X7dMOPklin240xzIzsOpFtFUu6w3H3y2CgtPIm1vwnh3P4yQdzOpNLc0gqo32KXKTt1sF7fQide42XDuLE74DqMB4NC55ojRJkczDsaZvJ92x-2BlZQKjs6kiSezOvRo4r2-2B6jdIcqE0qog770VZL141bmygq7afy-2BXbbgc3gBIHxbG-2BD098e9oepEMVIscBRDl4wsHVAk-2BN4HHoyW11TcZF5CAVaHrLgRQzmC95aAxcA-2FEEvZ6cDHQeRBKuW/ME9a>
> >> Mideast Eye: ?U.S. Offers Iraq Partial Pullback? <https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mps2/c/HQE/ni0YAA/t.307/1X4DuZIrRy-wkLdsfj_sOA/h7/3ZQWflKnrfcyhCc7BvLiuGsyNYP6t5wDZSF-2BZYBjel-2BhiYXCSvDCS2-2Fz9k5rJVAjQ6OZUdMjGmmPYfRKJv-2B75w-2F-2BpTYIBcbQ1-2Bz35gZLEdOCGNPpvaIwo4B2hYf406M0u2v-2FdznjGUygqsSmUmL-2BG1X4lLKWVUF6SY41BIBHyol2FOS7ALYCxGDAUR83dNf-2BSoggVo5TVeqRebm90bgk4sJGfiAP87n5NOuhh-2FgZAtlUVELetx5m-2FkQes2UsoJKA1ZbNE-2FmxFrx47Y1j71IG2X6D5MijUydI0QxhwZrFEAlVn-2FTm0PpuhGe8ycvcn51KLtY52ML-2B3z-2FncZA0EhvdvA-3D-3D/nfwO>
> >> Newsweek: ?U.S. Sending Missile Defense [sic] to Iraq? <https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mps2/c/HQE/ni0YAA/t.307/1X4DuZIrRy-wkLdsfj_sOA/h8/pxrMDxyqIOt0FjVwrvWwlZuqvkjMcUw5LeUjDJnm8YU5zxiqKGfRGO1GT4eU7HkRLltaGlpnxKYbAs4fRbDgvLt-2FaNmeN33yO64j0xneKwNXok1pvTXezYAgsAltzrBhqLCOKvga30gXJrxHp6wcaygNB73DZn39ljpY-2FbAzpH7METkbV7a9lcWq1DKCPnOc6koT-2Ba4-2BDhFlpAjrN8-2BTpQYyKZvuSE8msM-2BmcaUHox2PtBx-2Bnso48ktosVMvM9Pzc5roHyTTNScjJ6K12fmXgQB-2BtpYh2JqbGJflXDFyuwlR9gusfnjK9Xt1D1UkhK-2BK/xTw9>
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> >> Video: ?Worth the Price: Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War? <https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mps2/c/HQE/ni0YAA/t.307/1X4DuZIrRy-wkLdsfj_sOA/h10/QxL0JmVJORYjemwDbXcGmOfAgalYagHpUgDa2IvUZ-2BM7fEap78-2BErLFAW9yauCNIE3KrECueLiO5BQENv3UnmOXjlGDoOTEUq0yPmQL58DZrsU1YllzgtMO9TN90b5PDLlmXLbE1VEsz4qkl2eAAJ-2BPTf9Bo0Pe4Q8wFGvXi0zrBdBSolwQaRUUfKG5Ex4z8ag-2FQUjBsxhl0q5-2FJgv4wtFBtF77VPpzmzAoa65cWVn2Yo1fWhbP-2BAN5FdYA-2BrOy6mpnXRVg-2BpkHSqHTdGCvpJQ-3D-3D/NXI8>
> >> FactCheck.org <http://factcheck.org/>: ?Donald Trump and the Iraq War? <https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mps2/c/HQE/ni0YAA/t.307/1X4DuZIrRy-wkLdsfj_sOA/h11/5IeGlUtA18g6AZkxH-2B3y5ihoCWBOBkQhssXWMcWE7NIIbYQAjkCfdiH4xf6zv2NnlAA0b7nnTDK-2BLXqos89obMvHDy4YQ5W3XHD2HCa-2BJKZs-2BUL04Y2VJNN3tpZ5CKHHEaltePaMfV4EOvtyOVZ7x0nLvbbPi6GTEOpAHt4fRZtzNdi3AJJbHxE1T3ro7eV6-2FfsjRxO9Gt9-2FIVApHVDJMwgaP2wRUW-2FFJejgDiy3hHRGhi7StnNEivGMqsbAiLqF1LBigNU3u9nLK6Ymw-2FVkLvfIv9AYZTt8hRQymJXjYuBMvwJ-2BffYJGM2XyFzY3tju/oTdN>
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From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Fri Mar 20 13:04:19 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 08:04:19 -0500
Subject: [Peace] All U.S. Troops Out of Iraq Now
In-Reply-To: <5e737bab67d61_b0a83fdc8fd87f2414157d9@ip-10-0-0-214.mail>
References: <5e737bab67d61_b0a83fdc8fd87f2414157d9@ip-10-0-0-214.mail>
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> On Mar 19, 2020, at 9:03 AM, World BEYOND War <info at worldbeyondwar.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> The mass killing and destruction of Iraq that began 17 years ago today, assessed by the most scientifically respected measures available, killed over 1.4 million Iraqis.
> 
> Join us now in demanding once and for all: U.S. troops out of Iraq!
> 
> 
> While U.S. troops have been reduced in Iraq, they have never been removed. In January, the Iraqi Parliament voted that all U.S. troops should leave. The U.S. government has refused to leave, and has instead proposed installing ("defensive") missiles in Iraq targeting Iran. While Iran is depicted in U.S. media as an evil enemy, the U.S. military does not claim that Iran is a threat to the actual United States, only to U.S. troops near Iran and U.S. "interests." The refusal to leave and the decision to install missiles endanger Iraq, Iran, the entire region, and a world at risk of nuclear escalation and climate collapse that cannot afford any more wars.
> 
> The terrorist attack on Baghdad 17 years ago, which was intended to ?shock and awe? people into terror and submission, followed months of pro-war propaganda in U.S. corporate media and from the U.S. government.
> 
> Senate Foreign Relations Chair Joe Biden promoted the White House?s lies about weapons of mass destruction, pushed hard for war, and orchestrated hearings that excluded dissenting voices.
> 
> Many were fooled or claimed to be. Donald Trump?s last public comment on the war before it started was that he supported it.
> 
> It is now popular in U.S. politics to deny having supported the war, even to claim to have ended it. But there is virtually no discussion of the moral and practical necessity of complying with the wishes of the Iraqi government ? wishes that line up with a demand that many of us have been making for exactly 17 years ? to withdraw all U.S. troops and mercenaries and bases and weapons from Iraqi soil.
> 
> Click here to join us in making that demand. We'll be able to do more with this petition if you've signed it and if you've asked others to sign it too.
> 
> Please forward this to everyone you can!
> 
> Please share on Facebook and Twitter.
> 
> Background:
> >> CNN: ?Iraqi Parliament Votes for Plan to End U.S. Troop Presence in Iraq After Soleimani Killing?
> >> Mideast Eye: ?U.S. Offers Iraq Partial Pullback?
> >> Newsweek: ?U.S. Sending Missile Defense [sic] to Iraq?
> >> David Swanson: ?Ever More Shocked, Never Yet Awed?
> >> Video: ?Worth the Price: Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War?
> >> FactCheck.org: ?Donald Trump and the Iraq War?
> 
> World BEYOND War is a global network of volunteers, activists, and allied organizations advocating for the abolition of the very institution of war. Our success is driven by a people-powered movement ? support our work for a culture of peace. 
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From kmedina67 at gmail.com  Sat Mar 21 02:20:39 2020
From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (kmedina67)
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 21:20:39 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: URGENT ACTION: Call-In to Protect Champaign County
 Public Health Through Decarceration
In-Reply-To: <CADruWj4UZyu22_SG8vNnneKteVOtaUg4JDkvThWuVb0_bhE5aA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <5e7579fa.1c69fb81.fd728.1c17@mx.google.com>

The Champaign county bailout coalition is informing us of the health risk people who are being held in our county jail are facing in this time of the COVID-19 crisis. Remember, the jail is where they hold people who are awaiting their trials -- they have not been tried, convicted or sentenced.
-------- Original message --------From: Champaign County Bail Out Coalition <champaign.county.bail.out at gmail.com> Date: 3/20/20  09:48  (GMT-06:00) To:  Subject: URGENT ACTION: Call-In to Protect Champaign County Public Health Through Decarceration Hello everyone,Public health experts have warned that jails will become an epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Champaign County Bailout Coalition is asking that the residents of Champaign County call our Sheriff, Presiding Judge, and State's Attorney in order to urge them to decarcerate the two jails in response to this immediate threat to public health and safety.Call now! More info and sample scripts below!WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?People incarcerated in jail are one of the populations most vulnerable to coronavirus and COVID-19, and their protection warrants special emergency action. Jails and prisons are known to quickly spread contagious diseases. Incarcerated people have an inherently limited ability to fight the spread of infectious disease since they are confined in close quarters and unable to avoid contact with people who may have been exposed. Responses such as lock downs, placing people in solitary confinement and limiting access to visits from loved ones are punitive and ineffective responses to outbreaks. Importantly, we know that isolation further endangers people and limiting visitation also has adverse effects.The only acceptable response to the threat of COVID-19 is decarceration. On any given day, around 180 people are incarcerated in Champaign County?s two jails. Almost all of those individuals (over 90 %) are still awaiting trial and are thus presumed innocent under the law. Additionally, there are around 44 people incarcerated 24/7 in their homes under the Sheriff?s electronic monitoring (EM). In general, on top of the personal financial costs associated with EM, individuals incarcerated in their homes face undue hardships in carrying out daily survival tasks like shopping and seeking medical treatment. Their situation worsens when they must request permission for movement out of their house from authorities who are already overextended due to COVID-19-related issues. The ongoing incarceration of all these people is an unacceptable risk to every incarcerated individual as well as public health.Sample ScriptsSheriff Dustin D. HeuermanVia Secretary, Teresa Schleinz: 217-384-1205?Hi, my name is ______ and I live in _________. I?m calling to demand that Sheriff Heurman take steps to dramatically lower the number of people in jail in response to COVID-19. In addition, the Sheriff should loosen movement restrictions for people on electronic monitoring and improve access to phones, video ?visitation,? and make sanitation, hygiene and cleaning supplies available free of charge to anyone that remains incarcerated during the pandemic.??Office of the Presiding Judge, Thomas J. Difanis(217) 384-3704?Hi, my name is ______ and I live in _________. I?m calling to demand that Presiding Judge Difanis take steps to dramatically lower the number of people in jail in response to COVID-19. This means facilitating bond review hearings for people currently in jail and instructing judges not to admit new people to the jail. In addition, he should ensure everyone under home- confinement surveillance has permission to leave their homes to attend to their basic needs and those of their family during the pandemic.??Champaign County State?s Attorney, Julia RietzVia Main Office Phone: 217-384-3733?Hi, my name is ______ and I live in _________. I?m calling to demand that Champaign County State?s Attorney, Julia Rietz, take steps to dramatically lower the number of people in jail in response to COVID-19. She should instruct the prosecutors to use their discretionary authority to dismiss as many cases as possible, avoid imposing multiple charges for each indictment, and minimize the severity of recommended penalties. She should also instruct judges to give the least restrictive release conditions.??If they tell you they can?t help, you can emphasize that:?We are in a moment of crisis and need all county officials to do everything in their power to keep people safe. Incarcerated people are among the most vulnerable during this pandemic, we need you to do everything in your power to meet these demands, whether that?s your office taking unprecedented action or working with other county stakeholders.?On behalf of the Champaign County Bailout Coalition,PhillipChampaign County Bailout Coalition202 S Broadway Ave, Urbana, IL 61801(765) 231-5682https://champaigncountybailoutcoalition.wordpress.com
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From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Mon Mar 23 04:08:12 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 23:08:12 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Blocked by FB
Message-ID: <1D13B02E-0869-4141-833E-CDB664170623@newsfromneptune.com>

https://freewillibrary.blogspot.com/2020/03/noam-chomsky-on-primary-media-criticism.html


From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Wed Mar 25 01:10:26 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 20:10:26 -0500
Subject: [Peace] The best general account I've seen
Message-ID: <29B31862-EF96-46A3-9BA3-1A537F0993AE@newsfromneptune.com>

https://www.ips-journal.eu/index.php?id=344&L=0&tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=4180&tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=en_768_20200324&cHash=2f997a800ad2103cba008a355c6d9983


From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Wed Mar 25 01:51:34 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 20:51:34 -0500
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Blocked by FB
In-Reply-To: <CALZ0NqVMhS-ingTrAv5nhNym0g-_BLzUZLnD2M5vTyvV=R4g2A@mail.gmail.com>
References: <1D13B02E-0869-4141-833E-CDB664170623@newsfromneptune.com>
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Message-ID: <319D2B93-48A1-46A2-BE07-53A18F9955F4@newsfromneptune.com>

May have been a glitch. Here?s the gist:

Chomsky gives a grim assessment of the government?s response to COVID-19: ?There?s a concept of economy and efficiency. You should have just enough beds for what you need tomorrow. You shouldn?t prepare for the future. Right? So the hospital system?s crashing. Simple things like tests which you can easily get in a country South Korea, you can?t get here. So the coronavirus, which should be controlled in a functioning society, is going out of hand here. We?re just not ready for it. What we?re good at, what our leaders are good at, and have been very good at for the last 40 years, is pouring money into the pockets of the rich and the corporate executives while everything else crashes.?

> On Mar 23, 2020, at 6:25 AM, Roger Helbig <rwhelbig at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Too bad - where is proof that FB blocked this - FB seldom blocks much - they allow lies like Chomsky's about depleted uranium - he bought into Rokke's lies too - to be freely posted.
> 
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 9:08 PM C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> https://freewillibrary.blogspot.com/2020/03/noam-chomsky-on-primary-media-criticism.html
> 
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From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Fri Mar 27 13:31:29 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 08:31:29 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Oh just get out of Iraq for godsake
References: <5e7dfcaedc918_3c3b3f88743b9bec16410a5@ip-10-0-0-214.mail>
Message-ID: <F30176DF-BA88-4117-85C1-B92CF2A81B44@newsfromneptune.com>



> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: World BEYOND War <info at worldbeyondwar.org>
> Subject: Oh just get out of Iraq for godsake
> Date: March 27, 2020 at 8:16:31 AM CDT
> To: cge at shout.net
> Reply-To: info at worldbeyondwar.org
> 
>  <https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mps2/c/-wA/ni0YAA/t.30f/p64VUyJ-Qjuzo2HB13gidw/h0/aw3zVkRECbVHWdE16RGtNUxe2dAucu-2BAqZakX-2FxU8HV335h8-2BZXrqqGqHK6ztnEw3r9bKYzUXJ8wBxWxICkmmTl17OSELzK0eT8Gjzusrw1bxhlTh-2BlLSHG8ywB4GnKeGKLJTyV2DYQu1FY06ofGR5ddsjWvtv7SqZ1YcrKKwade18JnYWbJ-2BwwTOiG9CuJAJFt3Qn0l-2Bg1bAJ-2BKBaD34JHLyZ33BVro9Pz2gW-2BFCdvHgH6UHlrm-2BLrg2RICsAxIJscBaG267Ck3nrtIssVOCg-3D-3D/wnPr>
> A message in support of this petition from Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate:
> "I was in Iraq during the sanctions put on by USA and was horrified to visit hospitals where Iraq children died, without medicine as a result of these barbaric sanctions and war against Iraq. It is estimated that over half a million Iraqi children under age 6 died as a result of sanctions, and I am very sorry and ask for the forgiveness of all those who lost children and families due to the perpetual sanctions and war against their country. It is overdue that USA respect the wishes of Iraqi people and their government and leave Iraq immediately."
> 
> Just the phase of the mass killing and destruction of Iraq that began 17 years ago this month, assessed by the most scientifically respected measures available, killed over 1.4 million Iraqis.
> 
> Join us now in demanding once and for all: U.S. troops out of Iraq! <https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mps2/c/-wA/ni0YAA/t.30f/p64VUyJ-Qjuzo2HB13gidw/h1/CA0gLXQEKb6jqGkD7RqZiVCso-2FILbuaAIEEtVZapgA-2FG5qGEho5q-2FPoU36yIe8mN8ZC6z4rBX1CT-2BWwtUdc3MwDRMcCau0R61Psw8Jk9N8DMZoVfQPaleqsB19xkDBfjzT-2BE-2Bdm1x1g6CzUPu2JuVwZVnWvmm5vIqSIdE-2B1YKmUhONAUKtZOVPPbFI3z27V79uqhLmZ-2BxQD6evMkPijbt-2FPmgF64Lo6O4OLSBwx6vJzYGOsf5EBzwSgsmqdli-2BijmCPnYwCHHLtOtNCuC3gy0HQRXYpZKtDjB4ax2su9WTdiF9EFVxmniuUx-2FoC3SS9e/krdJ>
>  <https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mps2/c/-wA/ni0YAA/t.30f/p64VUyJ-Qjuzo2HB13gidw/h2/CA0gLXQEKb6jqGkD7RqZiVCso-2FILbuaAIEEtVZapgA-2FG5qGEho5q-2FPoU36yIe8mN8ZC6z4rBX1CT-2BWwtUdc3Mwej2Rv44MtsnV55i5KpNo3TGTLC23PmxVHRLRPmyVQKeKy94hTpB7K-2BdhuLmVeC6lLbRCq6WEEDSVJs9XFvDKEYbmUwc7fqxbqOQrsO8DOP6sw5mcXWfmcmRWZDKIgRLHQPR8FKYsqWlMyyBG9CylqEaA8XdsltrXyODttn5OMgNx3LWEYQh9uTOgRtBXhMadTET-2FYNqVOKdM0CPSjEohhJFPQP9L2Zlz0gMmZHWISx/834V>
> While U.S. troops have been reduced in Iraq, they have never been removed. In January, the Iraqi Parliament voted that all U.S. troops should leave. The U.S. government has refused to leave, and has instead proposed installing ("defensive") missiles in Iraq targeting Iran. While Iran is depicted in U.S. media as an evil enemy, the U.S. military does not claim that Iran is a threat to the actual United States, only to U.S. troops near Iran and U.S. "interests." The refusal to leave and the decision to install missiles endanger Iraq, Iran, the entire region, and a world at risk of nuclear escalation and climate collapse that cannot afford any more wars.
> 
> The terrorist attack on Baghdad 17 years ago, which was intended to ?shock and awe? people into terror and submission, followed months of pro-war propaganda in U.S. corporate media and from the U.S. government.
> 
> Senate Foreign Relations Chair Joe Biden promoted the White House?s lies about weapons of mass destruction, pushed hard for war, and orchestrated hearings that excluded dissenting voices.
> 
> Many were fooled or claimed to be. Donald Trump?s last public comment on the war before it started was that he supported it.
> 
> It is now popular in U.S. politics to deny having supported the war, even to claim to have ended it. But there is virtually no discussion of the moral and practical necessity of complying with the wishes of the Iraqi government ? wishes that line up with a demand that many of us have been making for 17 years ? to withdraw all U.S. troops and mercenaries and bases and weapons from Iraqi soil.
> 
> Click here to join us in making that demand. We'll be able to do more with this petition if you've signed it and if you've asked others to sign it too. <https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mps2/c/-wA/ni0YAA/t.30f/p64VUyJ-Qjuzo2HB13gidw/h3/CA0gLXQEKb6jqGkD7RqZiVCso-2FILbuaAIEEtVZapgA-2FG5qGEho5q-2FPoU36yIe8mN8ZC6z4rBX1CT-2BWwtUdc3M-2BgdwLXLOSx-2BjCJezU72DAAaCzt199wZRlHWlDCxlq7IgnvMKnnk33YyIKA8nSWXZKBwvTgtvmasrck4PCkohOjKsDbk-2BIs0pAaA35IkBzRljvfijIEkxJamSLDOWhGWQWjV2GNBAeuqIoFYb3NbGmohMO-2FdyBCJv9oQh7wSNJUH10o-2FxShj12sTOC3v0GHcFhmpmHgWdBOS3lF2HDEKn-2F5tcseZYBwuKLCAs-2FhYNAl0/CQtK>
> Please forward this to everyone you can!
> 
> Please share on Facebook <https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mps2/c/-wA/ni0YAA/t.30f/p64VUyJ-Qjuzo2HB13gidw/h4/Nejq3qQQ6Jn1R8HM5bnp8HYeBIqESA1EcQliHqTnukYnBp7BEI1iXoJWFXeB-2BSXsIgqBRjfV83-2B5jWPaSGH9NYabpiG4d7rMXBdwUXH9eTWnZd0FpJiu-2BQY4nkNsQD-2FqYPeARbbMk7sYDzV8m2TUeHV5-2B312gd62o9gJZappB-2FriuE-2FazWa-2Fyx3gCEc3XB-2FLTkqBmoVp8qjmGU4PsIorwvQOrYvrBKTZeFxo3h-2Ft5gTY6ARxTD8IXD1qeTVlZhxzh4KBcIkDxJNAGPweD-2FVGp9YG04NJnA56efr-2BSTG5jeymjvS2ZkudDIsZBBQqoNoM/MUMR> and Twitter <https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mps2/c/-wA/ni0YAA/t.30f/p64VUyJ-Qjuzo2HB13gidw/h5/tX6tdXlLuYnKkE2jZWciQYIASG1RV5pcLkgLttylY6QKOfBAiMxmOQCqrDloWCiupvxuuIRKnB7VCnoIeJED0-2BFgJUIatiU-2BrcxeaUX0LTk71g785tM1cPFcaQntYjc-2FcEwB8qXDPkh6nPOzPWtVf-2FP3Rt7Ow7HM00YkKgtmooIy5zOV6Z3mCxcVP2BbTiwV4K0geX3jd-2BtWcrmM1bLZyngWVMW0xil3smTHMoSaUZlwBJoCkczXtotL5nCUfraMd0ONKzlyTgkgCaz9tIq5ZsnKMOaS-2FkFaTsRetqE-2FbJ2fy-2F0v2CzY6K7LLaArUklA/Rv-v>.
> 
> Background:
> >> CNN: ?Iraqi Parliament Votes for Plan to End U.S. Troop Presence in Iraq After Soleimani Killing? <https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mps2/c/-wA/ni0YAA/t.30f/p64VUyJ-Qjuzo2HB13gidw/h6/YezmGHf9FoazvKIdtopakvF-2FeHJ5gbtdicCxPetIercV35KwnhntLHmqFnRLruoLh56K1X7dMOPklin240xzIzsOpFtFUu6w3H3y2CgtPIldVkms9SDH3-2F1wA6EFN-2Fi40olGpbrsgWIIVN6fk-2BYxLHYdGLP6giXkTe1Sirh-2BdJRiYREdMQ0tf7-2F5jElYGWi-2BsZUuPEgkuMWOeWFjDmLkdnPuR0QIs1pcC0ZV0XL4mKw1tfEU94vrKlUPMprR8B7bx4F0tvuYmzYYNOXG-2FAZQBW5RSXd6t9w2NnP-2FP0GqYUrmWm06VuVXqPIW-2FUFLkz0Uh8ch64ZSqZwn9OzyPsl4cQ-3D-3D/dRg3>
> >> Mideast Eye: ?U.S. Offers Iraq Partial Pullback? <https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mps2/c/-wA/ni0YAA/t.30f/p64VUyJ-Qjuzo2HB13gidw/h7/3ZQWflKnrfcyhCc7BvLiuGsyNYP6t5wDZSF-2BZYBjel-2BhiYXCSvDCS2-2Fz9k5rJVAjQ6OZUdMjGmmPYfRKJv-2B75w-2F-2BpTYIBcbQ1-2Bz35gZLEdOCGNPpvaIwo4B2hYf406M06Muc9nCExSk8jTn9RX1Hei2iJr1aLz5AaSrzOCFJZ5KT-2F1AahRggU3m-2B-2FxX9zdZvW1bK-2BgxRM3-2FXTCOgPz5kJfR9zo3znMY4fBCj-2FvQe82F5J5UuUvXp9yWzrI7aJSvhK8ZiKEYaCcvMt3eMGhWOuWFKKyM9Ng6kcKIi1wsKseHlQ-2BnngB9EDD0vg2dUDD-2FeV-2BAsdIAAQnMSRSRwJLv8eM9R-2B-2BPjN7Cg-2Bh0BEAC-2F-2Bck-3D/LjCK>
> >> Newsweek: ?U.S. Sending Missile Defense [sic] to Iraq? <https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mps2/c/-wA/ni0YAA/t.30f/p64VUyJ-Qjuzo2HB13gidw/h8/pxrMDxyqIOt0FjVwrvWwlZuqvkjMcUw5LeUjDJnm8YU5zxiqKGfRGO1GT4eU7HkRLltaGlpnxKYbAs4fRbDgvLt-2FaNmeN33yO64j0xneKwOzoS6eJR5Oj9aLjBkGcNClvU48JJ-2BVNgdxTjGIAYqJHQYrXSjgUv5G48pxRWcj-2FAw6kfGFha-2F1-2FikUnBPVH50Mcc8w0RFeVgu4ArMtJ7Xl1Xy9J2x-2B-2BePdoepi5nKKk-2BJxsp0L7q42xyAqO77hrFj36NifF7Vl2DKbeTf-2BGuV-2BvTyy0uHV6c8Sqg5WVFcxBuMZqXCRcqJrDvG9zl-2FabtfU9znNycWNTDMH7mjy6jGdPw-3D-3D/jbYT>
> >> David Swanson: ?Ever More Shocked, Never Yet Awed? <https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mps2/c/-wA/ni0YAA/t.30f/p64VUyJ-Qjuzo2HB13gidw/h9/zKMpp-2F1EyG3Vvr6hV-2BfTUX4g2jkbBrdGWVLWP3l0wsYrAlmWTZLPz77xE-2B6FznW687-2Fphk5dg7jSyrAKpfOhl66S0v2IZf6BKbvdk8vUVZQwRWkIXXdE5m2Ns5JjeikLsW0fjt99EdFn6a8nQsfcrcajgFxHYN2wOLDoeHtv-2BZgR8fWacCAe1SUz0Uvksx7lznY4Czk0-2B9zwD6FdvnIJDor2XgxtyWYg-2FElW37OGqHQnfVQeLHF-2FQ86-2BiaoZDc8oyfHr6-2Fr6bZPI6-2BfvDNAgMA-3D-3D/8CVF>
> >> Video: ?Worth the Price: Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War? <https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mps2/c/-wA/ni0YAA/t.30f/p64VUyJ-Qjuzo2HB13gidw/h10/QxL0JmVJORYjemwDbXcGmOfAgalYagHpUgDa2IvUZ-2BM7fEap78-2BErLFAW9yauCNILckE3VDrAHVUU4e-2FEvSAB4ParYJbnWb5uRYOKlOZvrB7JQI6sPEpiUMWX5-2BY3t2SC-2FirskNDG4a4M5aRsH3rI9xvnu6CDFe7Ql1N88QZlfMQUEAyb6bSPX7oqurMN07FHl2QUW8hPztgbwQZQJxLOJb5LjI8a4zp62U9KZFnBFjmZstwB7ourGsldKDdAOanNmiOkXFuA-2F3CIhdYPOGPIA-3D-3D/6WSv>
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From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Fri Mar 27 17:58:47 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 12:58:47 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Innocence project
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https://www.innocenceproject.org/petitions/urge-your-governor-to-prevent-the-spread-of-covid-19-in-jails-and-prisons/?p2asource=SMS_03262020


From karenaram at hotmail.com  Mon Mar 30 16:10:31 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 09:10:31 -0700
Subject: [Peace] Jimmy Dore's best
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfOPSq705To&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR05Hpx3kMoaLLkuHKmcWp2HF-ZxG5luoWDkzgBKRF7Wri04q5XJMSPRYjE <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfOPSq705To&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR05Hpx3kMoaLLkuHKmcWp2HF-ZxG5luoWDkzgBKRF7Wri04q5XJMSPRYjE>
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From jbn at forestfield.org  Mon Mar 30 17:57:36 2020
From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson)
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:57:36 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez (AOC),
 other "progressives" join the corporatists in "the biggest handoff
 in US history"
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Karen Aram wrote:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfOPSq705To

Jimmy Dore played a clip of the "schizophrenic"[1] Democracy Now interview of Rep. 
Ilhan Omar from 
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/3/27/rep_ilhan_omar_coronavirus_relief_bill --

> Rep. Ilhan Omar: [...] And I think this crisis and this pandemic really lays bare
> the kind of inequalities that have existed for far too long in our country. And
> the conversations we?re having right now as we put forth our third relief package
> shows us that there is often a prioritization of corporate interests and often not
> a prioritization of the interests of the people.
> 
> So, today I plan on voting for this bill, not because it?s perfect or it?s
> sufficient, but because I think, in a time where we are facing one of the largest
> crises we?ve faced in our country, it?s going to be really important for us to do
> everything that we can to protect the lives and the livelihoods of the people of
> this country. My home state, just in 10 days, there has been 165,000 people who
> filed for unemployment insurance. And nationwide, as you said, it?s 3.3 million.
> And so we have to make sure that we are doing everything that we can to deliver
> relief.

Later, Max Blumenthal remarked:

> Max Blumenthal: I mean you have Boeing which has planes dropping out of the sky
> like hail in Nebraska -- the 737 Max doesn't fly. It was in complete crisis.
> They've been begging for federal money, and lobbying for federal money for years,
> they finally got one of their lobbyists as the Defense Secretary. And so $17
> billion is tucked into the stimulus under the cover of urgent national security
> priorities. It's just Boeing money, it's earmarked for Boeing. Then, you know, AOC
> -- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez -- she is right: she said on Twitter the cruise
> industry is being bailed out even register in the United States specifically to
> avoid paying taxes in the United States. They also have de-facto slave labor --
> indentured servants on-board and they don't want to abide by any labor laws. They
> got bailed out. So AOC delivers this great performance on the House floor that
> everyone's sharing on Twitter saying "Slay Queen, she's so great". She voted for
> it [the bailout bill]. She voted for it. Bernie too, he performed very well for
> the cameras but it was just grandstanding at the end of the day. It's to satisfy
> their progressive base on Twitter, to have these little performances clipped out
> by people who think they're heroes, that they actually accomplished something
> substantial but they still voted for a Titanic -- it's not a corporate bailout,
> it's the reinforcement of corporate control over our lives for at least another
> generation. And the most hated man in Washington is a Republican congressman who
> lives in a house that he built by himself, a completely environmentally
> sustainable house that he built by himself, on a hilltop in Kentucky who is a
> die-hard Libertarian named Thomas Massie. Thomas Massie managed to unite Donald
> Trump and the Democrats in hatred of him because he actually tried to hold up this
> bill in order to force every single member to record a vote according to the
> Constitution.

Part of this reiterates what Jimmy Dore covered in 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u23YwwfTVU entitled "AOC Screams Against Stimulus 
Bill Then Votes For It"[2] which Dore replays.

Dore & Blumenthal also point out that AOC voted for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the 
House. I've been saying on peace-discuss and peace mailing lists that this was a 
critical vote against Medicare for All allowing AOC to do the two-faced bullshit 
she's doing here: give speeches about how we, as a country, need Medicare for All, 
but voting in a manner to prevent Medicare for All from ever coming to the floor for 
a vote. This is AOC's insurance plan against ever having to put her vote where her 
mouth is. And thus rendering it moot how good any Medicare for All bill is, possibly 
making it so that we always have one or two Medicare for All bills just so the HMOs 
get comparable insurance -- the HMOs people like AOC effectively work for get to tell 
us things like "if you don't like what the HMOs are doing, get your Congresspeople to 
bring one or both of those bills up for a vote" knowing full well that their campaign 
contributions will prevent that from ever happening.

Sanders was brought to heel years ago. Now more people can see the so-called 
progressive left women who get so much press for being progressive women fail to do 
what's important. Posing for identity politics-driven Vanity Fair covers versus 
helping us all in our time of need.

Jimmy Dore tells us that Ilhan Omar, AOC, Rashid Talib, Ayanna Presley, Tulsi 
Gabbard, Ro Khanna, and Bernie Sanders were all supposed to be coming out two weeks 
ago saying "what the fuck is going on?" and not voting for this bailout bill. They've 
all 'been brought to heel' (to use a term from another identity politics woman) by 
big businesses. Litmus tests apparently work (despite former Pres. Obama's tsk-tsking 
us from using litmus tests of our own to evaluate members of Congress). Too bad these 
Congressmembers don't work in your interest.




[1] Per Jimmy Dore to Primo Nutmeg giving an all-too-kind review of Democracy Now in 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qg-uxr9ARs around 16 minutes in. DN has fallen from 
its height during the run-up to the 2003 UK/US-led Iraq War. DN's pro-Russiagate 
stance (which is a pro-war stance, by the way) and uncritically repeating the lies 
alleging a gas attack in Douma despite the evidence that that attack never happened 
(a 4th OPCW scientist is now coming out to say this) are what led former DN 
journalist Aaron Mate to leave DN. Mate would find no home at The Intercept & The 
Real News either for the same reasons.

[2] Relatedly, Politico tells us in https://archive.md/UaPmy 
(https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/30/new-aoc-divides-the-left-150767) that "AOC 
breaks with Bernie on how to lead the left" by accepting less of the "uncompromising" 
"left" side and working more with the "centrists" who "[work] within the system in 
Congress" (read: capitalists who side with big business, reaching decisions 
indistinguishable from those people like AOC used to rail against). Since when was 
Bernie Sanders not one of these people? He ran his campaign telling us repeatedly how 
former VP Joe Biden is "a friend of mine", "a decent guy", and "can beat [Pres.] 
Trump". Since when is merely beating Pres. Trump a goal? Do you really care who 
brings you Medicare for All, an end to homelessness by giving the homeless homes, a 
national jobs program, UBI, or other programs we really need now? Are you aware of 
the Democrats' shameful history on HR 676 (the late Michigan Rep. John Conyers' 
Medicare for All bill which sat on the metaphorical shelf even when Dems had a 
majority in both houses of Congress)?

From karenaram at hotmail.com  Mon Mar 30 19:54:03 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:54:03 -0700
Subject: [Peace] Max,
 Ben and Pepe cover geopolitics in the age of Coronavirus
Message-ID: <DM6PR13MB287589808B8920AFE4CCDA47A3CB0@DM6PR13MB2875.namprd13.prod.outlook.com>



https://moderaterebels.com/coronavirus-us-hybrid-war-china-pepe-escobar/ <https://moderaterebels.com/coronavirus-us-hybrid-war-china-pepe-escobar/>
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Mon Mar 30 23:09:38 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 16:09:38 -0700
Subject: [Peace] Noam Chomsky on the Corona Virus
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-N3In2rLI4 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-N3In2rLI4>
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From jbn at forestfield.org  Mon Mar 30 23:48:40 2020
From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson)
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 18:48:40 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Noam Chomsky on the Corona Virus (now with automatically
 generated transcript)
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Karen Aram wrote:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-N3In2rLI4

Here's a rush transcript (meaning this comes straight out of the speech-to-text 
transcriber, to some light editing by yours truly, to your email client). Maybe this 
in text format will help you locate this email with a full text search...or maybe 
it'll help the robots advance on us all. One or the other.

Enjoy.

> Srecko Horvat (Host): Welcome to another 'World After Corona Virus'. I am really
> happy and honoured for this special episode, because there is a special guest,
> joining us today. And that special guest is, not only mine but a hero of many
> generations. Both of us are unfortunately in self- isolation, so this is also very
> a special occasion, but without further introduction I think most of you, who are
> watching this know who is Noam Chomsky and I am so glad that Noam is joining us
> today. Hello Noam, could you just tell us, where are you, are you already in self-
> isolation and for how long?
> 
> Noam Chomsky: Well, I am in Tucson, Arizona in self-isolation. So, you wrote, you
> were born in 1928 And you wrote your first essay, as far as I know, when you were
> only ten years old, which was an essay on the Spanish civil war. Actually just
> after the fall of Barcelona and so that was 1938, which looks very far away, for
> my generation. You survived the second world war, Hiroshima, you were a witness to
> Hiroshima, you were a witness to many very big important political, historic
> events, from the Vietnam War, to the oil crisis, to the fall of the Berlin wall.
> Before that, you where a witness to Chernobyl, after that in the 90s, you where a
> witness to a historical moment which was leading to 9/11, which was also a global
> event and most recently, I mean I am trying to really shorten a long history of a
> lifetime of someone like you, but the most recent event was the financial crash of
> 2007 and 2008. So in this background, of such a rich life and being a witness and
> also an actor in this major historical processes, 'how do you look at the current
> corona virus crisis? Is it an unprecedented historical event, is it something
> which surprised you? How do you look at it? That would be my question. I should
> say that my earliest memories which are haunting me now, are from the 1930s, the
> article that you mentioned on the fall of Barcelona was acting mainly about the,
> apparently, inexorable spread of the fascist plague all over the, all over Europe
> and how it was gonna end. I later, did much later discovered, when internal
> documents came out, that the analyst of the U.S government, at the time and the
> following years expected, that the war would end with, the end of the war was
> coming, that the war would end with, the world divided into U.S dominated air
> regions and a German dominated region. So my childhood fears were not entirely out
> of place. And these memories come back now. I can recall, when I was a child, a
> young child listening to Hitler's Nuremberg rallies over the radio, I couldn't
> understand the words but you could easily understand the mood and the threat and
> so on, and I have to say when I listen to Donald Trump's rallies today, it
> resonates. It's not that he's a fascist, he doesn't have that much of an ideology,
> he's just a sociopath, but an individual concerned with himself, but the mood and
> the fears is similar and the idea that the fate of the country and the world is in
> the hands of a sociopathic buffoon, is shocking. The coronavirus is serious enough
> but it's worth recalling that there is a much greater horror approaching, we are
> racing to the edge of disaster, far worse then anything that's happened in human
> history. And Donald Trump and his minions are in the lead, in racing to the abyss.
> In fact there are two immense threats that we are facing. One is the growing
> threat of nuclear war, which has exacerbated it by the tearing what's left of the
> arms control regime and the other of course is the growing threat of global
> warming. Both threats can be dealt, but there isn't a lot of time and the corona
> virus is a horrible can have terrifying consequences But there will be recovery,
> while the others won't be recovered, it's finished. If we don't deal with them,
> we're done. And so the childhood memories are coming back to haunt me, but a
> different dimension. The threat of nuclear war didn't get a sense of where the
> world really is, by looking to early, to this January, as may you know every year
> the doomsday clock is set, set with the minute-hand at certain distance from
> midnight, which means termination. But, ever since Trump was elected, the minute
> hand has been moving closer and closer to midnight. Last year it was two minutes
> to midnight. The highest, matching the highest it ever reached. This year the
> analysts dispensed with minutes, started moving to seconds, 100 seconds to
> midnight That's the closest it's ever been. Sighting three things: The threat of
> nuclear war, threat of global warming and the deterioration of democracy, which
> doesn't quite belong into here but it does, because that's the only, hope that we
> have, for overcoming the crisis and in for [inaudible] public taking control of
> their fate, if that doesn't happen, we are doomed. If we are leaving our fate to
> sociopathic buffoons, we're finished. And that's coming close, Trump is the worst,
> that's because of US Power, which is overwhelming. We are talking about U.S
> decline, but you just look at the world, you don't see that when the U.S imposes
> sanctions, murderers, devastating sanctions, that's the only country that can do
> that, but everyone has to follow. Europe may not like, in fact hate actions on
> Iran, but they have to follow, they have to follow the master, or else they get
> kicked out of the international financial system. That's not a law of nature it's a
> decision in Europe to be subordinate to the master in Washington, other countries
> don't even have a choice. And back to the Coronavirus, one of the most shocking,
> harsh aspects of it, is the use of sanctions, to maximize the pain, perfectly
> consciously, Iran is in a zone, enormous internal problems. By the stranglehold of
> tightening sanctions, which are consciously designed, openly, to make the suffer
> and suffer bitterly now. Cuba has been suffering from it, from the moment, where
> it gained independence, but it's astonishing, that they survived but they stayed
> resilient and one of the most ironic elements of today's virus crisis, is that
> Cuba is helping Europe. I mean this is so shocking, that you don't know how to
> describe it. That Germany can't help Greece, but Cuba can help the European
> countries. If you stop to think about what that means, all the words fail, just as
> when you see thousands of people dying in the Mediterranean, fleeing from a
> region, that has been devastated for centuries and being sent to the deaths in the
> Mediterranean, you don't know what words to use. The crisis, the civilizational
> crisis of the West at this point is devastating, to think of them and it does
> bring up childhood memories of listening to Hitler raving on the radio to raucous
> crowds it makes you wonder if this species is even viable.
> 
> Srecko Horvat (Host): You mentioned the crisis of democracy, At this moment I
> think we find ourselves also in a historically unprecedented situation, in the
> sense that almost 2 billion people, that's a figure I found today, are in one or
> the other way confined at home, whether it is isolation, self-isolation or
> quarantine. Almost 2 billion people in the world are at home, if they are lucky
> enough to have a home. At the same time what we can witness is that Europe, but
> also other countries, closed their borders, not only internal ones but outer
> borders. There is an estate of exception in all the countries we can think of,
> which means curfew in many countries, such as France, Serbia, Spain, Italy and
> other countries, army on the streets and what I want to ask you as a linguist, Is
> the length language which is now, circulating around. If you listen not just to
> Donald Trump, if you listen to Macron, also some other European politicians, you
> will constantly hear that they speak about, war. And even the media speak about
> doctors who are on the first "front line" and the virus is called an enemy. Which
> reminded me of course also, not of childhood memories, luckily but a book which
> was written at that time, Victor Klemperer, "Lingua tertii imperii" the book
> which, which is a book about the language of the Third Reich and in which way
> through the language, the ideology was imposed, so from your perspective, what
> does this discourse about war, tell us and why do they present a virus as an
> enemy, is it just to legitimize the new state of exception or is there something
> deeper in this discourse?
> 
> Noam Chomsky: In this case, [it's important to] protect the rhetoric, but I think
> it's not exaggerated. It has some significance. The meaning is, that if we want to
> deal with the crisis, we have to move to something like wartime mobilization. So
> if you think of, take a rich country, like United States, it has the resources to
> overcome the immediate economic The mobilization for the Second World War, led the
> country into far greater debt than is contemplated today and was very a successful
> mobilization, practically quadrupled the U.S manufacturing, ended the depression,
> left the country with [inaudible] instead, but a capacity to grow. That's less
> than we need probably, not on that scale it's not like this in a world war, but we
> need the mentality of the movement, of a social ??? is to try to overcome the
> short-run crisis, which is severe. Also here we, can recall the swine flue
> epidemic in 2009, to originated in the U.S. Couple hundreds thousand people, at
> the first sight recovered from worst, but it has to be dealt with, That's a rich
> country like the States. Now there's two billion people, the majority are in
> India. What happens for Indian, they live from hand to mouth, who's isolated,
> starves to death. What's gonna happen? In a civilized world, the rich countries
> would be giving assistance, after those who were in need, instead of strangling
> them, which is what we are doing, particularly in India but in much of the world.
> The kind of crisis, you know whether the crisis can be within a country like
> India, I don't know, bear in mind that the, with current tendencies if they
> persist South Asia, is going to be unlivable in a few decades. The temperature
> reached a 50 degrees, in Rajasthan this summer and it's increasing. The waters
> right now, could get even worse, there's two nuclear powers, they're gonna be
> fighting over restricting reduced water supplies. I mean the corona virus is very
> serious, we can't underestimate it, but we have to remember that it's a fraction,
> small fraction of major crisis, that are coming along. They may not disrupt life
> to the extent, that the corona virus does today, but they will disrupt life to the
> point of making the species unsurvivable and not in the very distant future. So we
> have many problems to deal with, well, immediate ones, corona virus is serious,
> has to be dealt with and much larger ones, vastly larger ones, they're looming.
> Now, there is the civilizational crisis, we have to time possibly good side of the
> corona virus, as it may, might bring people to think about what kind of a world do
> we want? Do we want the kind of world that leads to this? We should think about
> the origins of this crisis, why is there a corona virus crisis? Its a colossal
> market failure, it goes right back to the essence of markets, exacerbated by the
> neoliberal, savage, neoliberal intensification of deep social economic problems.
> It was known for a long time, that pandemics are very likely and it was
> understood, very well understood, that there likely to be corona virus pandemic
> slight modifications of the SARS epidemic, 15 years ago it was overcome, the
> viruses were identified, sequenced, vaccines were available, labs around the
> world, could be working right then on developing protection for potential corona
> virus pandemics. Why didn't they do it? The market signals were wrong. The drug
> companies, we have handed over our fate to private tyrannies, hold corporations,
> which are unaccountable to the public, in this case, big Pharma and for them they
> make new body creams, it's more profitable, than that of finding a vaccine that
> will protect people from total destruction. It's impossible for the government to
> step in, going back to wartime mobilization, that's what happened Polio, at the
> time, I can remember very well was a terrifying threat, it was ended by the
> discovery of the Salk vaccine, by a government institution, set off by the
> Roosevelt administration. No Patents, available to everyone. That could have been
> done this time, but the neoliberal plague has blocked that. We are living under an
> ideology, for which economists have a good bit of responsibility, so which comes
> from the corporate sector. An ideology, which is typified by that Ronald Reagan
> reading the script chided to, by his corporate masters with his sunny smile, saying
> government is the problem. Let's get rid of government, which means, let's hand
> over decisions to private tyrannies, that are unaccountable with the public. On
> the other side of the Atlantic, Thatcher was instructing us, that there is a
> society, just individuals thrown into the market to survive somehow and
> furthermore, there is no alternative. The world has been suffering under the rich,
> years and it's now at the point where things, that could be done, like direct
> government intervention on the scope the invention of the Salk vaccine, but that's
> blocked for ideological reasons, coming out of the neoliberal plague and the point
> is that this corona virus epidemic could have been prevented, the information was
> there to be read, in fact it was well known in October 2019, just before the
> outbreak. There was a large scale simulation, by level simulation in the United
> States, in the world of the possible pandemic of this kind. Nothing was done, now
> the crisis was then made worse by the treachery of the political systems. We didn't
> pay attention to the information that they were aware of, on December 31st, China
> informed the World Health Organisation of pneumonia, like symptoms with unknown
> etiology. A week later, they identified, some Chinese scientists, identified it as
> a corona virus, furthermore they sequenced it and gave the information to the
> world, by then virologists, others who were bothering to read World Health
> Organization report knew, that they were Corona Virus and they knew how to deal
> with it. Did they do anything, well yes, some did. The countries in the area,
> China, Soth Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, began to do something and they have sort of
> pretty much it seems contained, at least the first surge of crisis. In Europe to
> some extent, that's happened. Germany which had, which hadn't moved, just on time,
> it has the hospital systems under the liberalism, did have spare diagnostic
> capacity and was able to act in a highly selfish fashion, not helping others but
> for itself at least, to have a reasonable containment Other countries just ignored
> it, the worst of them the United Kingdom and the worst of all was the United
> States, which happens to be led by [inaudible] who says, you know one day there's
> no crisis, it's just like flu, the next day it's a terrible crisis, I knew it all
> along, the next day we have to give it for business, because I have to win the
> election. The Idea that the world is in these hands, is shocking, but the point is
> that it started with it, again, a colossal market failure by pointing to
> fundamental problems the social economic order, made much worse by the neoliberal
> plague and it continues, because of the collapse of the kinds of institutional
> structures, that could deal with it, if they were functioning. These are topics
> that we ought to be thinking about seriously and thinking in more depth about, as
> I said, what kind of world do we want to live in? If we overcome somehow, there
> will be options. The options range from the installation of highly authoritarian
> brutal States all the way over to radical reconstruction to society and more
> humane terms, concerned with human needs of private profit. That we should bear in
> mind, that highly authoritarian vicious states are quite compatible with neo-
> liberalism, in fact, the [inaudible] of neo-liberalism from [inaudible] to Hayek
> the rest, were perfectly happy with massive state violence, as long as it
> supported what they called sound economics. Neo-liberalism has it's origins in
> 1920s Vienna, from [inaudible] could barely contain in his delight, in the
> proto-fascist of the Austrian state and smashed the labor unions and Austrian
> social democracy and joined the early proto-fascist government, praised it.
> praised fascism, in fact, because of his protecting sound economics. When Pinochet
> installed a murderer's brutal dictatorship in Chile, they all loved it, they all
> fought there, [inaudible] helped out of this marvelous miracle, that was bringing
> sound economics, great profit to it, for harness up some small part of the
> population. So, it's not out of line to think, of a savage neoliberal system might
> be reinstalled by self-proclaimed libertarians with a powerful state violence,
> imposing, that's one part, one nightmare, that might come about. But it's not
> necessary, there is the possibility that people will organize, become engaged, as
> many are doing, and brings about a much better world, which will also confront the
> enormous problems, that were facing right down the road, the problems of nuclear
> war, which is closer than it's ever been and the problems of environmental
> catastrophe from which there is no recovery once we've gotten to that stage, that
> it's not far in distance, unless we act decisively. So it's a critical moment of
> human history, not just because of the corona virus, but to bring us, should bring
> us to awareness of the profound flaws the world flawed not strong enough, the
> deep, dysfunctional characteristics of the whole socio-economic system, which has
> to [inaudible], if there's going to be a survivable future. So this could be a
> warning sign and a lesson to deal with it today or prevent it from exploding, but
> thinking of it's roots and how those roots are going to lead to more crisis, worse
> ones than this, extra pay right away.
> 
> Srecko Horvat (Host): And since we don't have much time, I'll just pose one last
> question, yes, so, I think many people are interested and also us, who are active
> in social movements and mobilization and organized for decades, using physical and
> social closeness between people, but now suddenly we are all getting accustomed to
> what is now being called 'Social-distancing', so my questions is, how do you see
> the future of social resistance, in times of social distance and if this takes a
> few more months, not to mention maybe a year to two, and we are mainly in self
> isolation at home, what would be your advise to progressives around the world,
> activists, also intellectuals, students, workers, how to organize in this new
> situation? And could you perhaps tell us whether you see a hope , that instead of
> going into a global authoritarianism, this open historic situation might go in a
> radical transformation of the world, which would be green, equal, just and full of
> solidarity?
> 
> Noam Chomsky: First of all, we should bear in mind that, in the past few years,
> there has been a form of social isolation, which is very damaging. Now you go into
> a McDonald's and take a look at a bunch of teenagers, sitting around the table,
> having a hamburger, what you see is, two conversations going. One sort of shallow
> discussion among them, another the one, that each one is having on his cellphone,
> with some remote individual, who with friend. This has atomized and isolated
> people to an extraordinary extent. The Thatcher principle, there was no society,
> has escalated, the misused social media, that has turned people into very isolated
> creatures, especially young people. There are actually universities, now in the
> United States, where the sidewalk have plaques on them, saying, look up. Because
> every kid is walking around, is glued to itself. That's a form of self induced
> social isolation, which has been very harmful. We're now on a situation of real
> social isolation. It has to be overcome by recreating, social bonds in whatever
> way can be done , who need if whatever kind that can be helping people in need.
> Contacting them, developing organizations, expanding nationalization, like before I'm
> getting them to be functional and operative, making plans for the future, bringing
> people together as he can in the internet age, to join, consult deliberate to
> figure out answers to the problems that they face and work on them, which can be
> done, it's not face to-face communication which for human beings is essential. But
> it'll be deprived of it for a while, you can put it on hold find other ways and
> continue with the, and in fact, extend and deepen the activities carried out, can
> be done, it's not going to be easy, but humans have faced problem
> 
> Srecko Horvat (Host): Can I pose a question, since we are both in self-isolation?
> 
> Noam Chomsky: My dog is trying to have a conversation.
> 
> Srecko Horvat (Host): Was that before a parrot? You have a bird as well or a
> parrot? Or a bird, there was a sound of a bird, yes?
> 
> Noam Chomsky: Yes, a ????? Parrot, it can say: Sovereignty to all the people in
> Portuguese. That's better wisdom than we hear from people in Washington.

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From jbn at forestfield.org  Tue Mar 31 00:48:42 2020
From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson)
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 19:48:42 -0500
Subject: [Peace] When establishment goals, ethics,
 and identity politics collide
Message-ID: <d0b09081-29cc-fc82-6ec9-cb895d963868@forestfield.org>

Aaron Mat? retweeted a now uncomfortable reminder of the obligation that goes along 
with the phrase "believe all women" -- one must carry this burden even when it 
directly conflicts with one's choice to push establishment values. Hollywood 
celebrity Alyssa Milano's Twitter post from September 18, 2018 is coming back to 
haunt her and so many other people who have made comparable sentiments:

> You ? can?t ? pretend ?to ? be ? the? party ? of ? the ? American
> ?people ? and ? then ?not ? support ? a ? woman ? who ? comes forward ?
> with ? her ?#MeToo ? story. #TuesdayThoughts

Now this post comes up again in the context of the establishment's silence around 
allegations of Sen. Joe Biden's sexual assault history. The most recently-discussed 
chapter of this history -- Alexandra Tara Reade's allegation of what happened to her 
in 1993.

Some background: See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14tfnIkQ-qU -- Sen. Joe Biden's 
former staff assistant Alexandra Tara Reade accused Sen. Joe Biden of sexual assault. 
Reade was one of 7 other women who shared stories about Biden's sexual advances, 
assaults, and other forms of inappropriateness or illegality. Lucy Flores is another 
one of the women whose names you might have come across before. This clip from Jimmy 
Dore & co. explains the situation and replays an interview with interviewer Katie Halper.

According to Katie Halper's description from 
https://soundcloud.com/katie-halper/joe-bidens-accuser-finally-tells-her-full-story :
> She [Reade] told part of her story-- about how Biden would put his hands on her 
> shoulders and run his fingers up and down her neck-- in the spring of 2019 after 
> Lucy Flores accused Biden of kissing the top of her head and smelling her hair 
> inappropriately. But Reade didn't tell her full story. As Ryan Grim reveals at
> The Intercept, Reade asked for help from Time's Up, but the organization said it
> could not support her because a case taking on Biden would jeopardize their
> non-profit status. Tara is finally telling the story she's been trying to tell for
> decades. While there were no witnesses to Biden's alleged sexual assault of Tara
> Reade, her brother and close friend, both of whom I've [Katie Halper] spoken to,
> recall Reade telling them about it at the time.

Under any other circumstances, given only this retelling of the allegations, Biden 
would be considered persona non grata. Major American corporations would do what they 
could to quickly distance themselves from Biden. This is how things happened for many 
other men accused of doing horrible things to others (mostly women) without consent, 
often under circumstances where one is expected to behave professionally.

But serving the establishment matters more: establishment-serving media have 
apparently chosen to remain silent on the matter. Biden continues to be the 
Democratic Party frontrunner (the presumptive nominee, in fact) and it is up to 
non-compliant media outlets to cover what is going on. There are so few such outlets 
that I've listed what I could find below. The stories of other women seem to have 
stopped even from media previously believed to be progressive in their support of 
sexual assault victims.


References:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14tfnIkQ-qU -- Jimmy Dore & co. on this story.

https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/783742165-katie-halper-tara-to-post.mp3
https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/782795578-katie-halper-joe-bidens-accuser-finally-tells-her-full-story.mp3 
-- Katie Halper's Lucy Flores interview in which Flores describes her assault.

https://twitter.com/kthalps/status/1242691746561167360 -- Katie Halper's tweet thread 
about this story.

https://theintercept.com/2020/03/24/joe-biden-metoo-times-up/ -- Ryan Grim's 
Intercept article describing the Flores allegations.

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/3/26/headlines/the_intercept_times_up_legal_defense_fund_refused_to_support_metoo_allegation_against_joe_biden 
-- The only Democracy Now story I could find and it's nothing but a brief headline story:

> The Intercept is reporting that the Time?s Up Legal Defense Fund, set up to help
> survivors of rape and sexual assault, refused to fund a #MeToo investigation into
> allegations against Joe Biden. The charges were brought by Tara Reade, who worked
> as a staff assistant for then-Senator Biden in 1993, when she was in her
> mid-twenties. Reade told journalist Katie Halper in an interview published Tuesday
> that Biden repeatedly touched her without her consent and sexually assaulted her.
> A warning to listeners and viewers: Her account is graphic.
> 
> Tara Reade: ?And then his hands were on me and underneath my clothes. And yeah,
> and then he went ? he went down my skirt but then up inside it, and he penetrated
> me with his fingers.?
> 
> Reade approached the Time?s Up Legal Defense Fund in January looking for
> assistance, but was reportedly told the fund could not help her because Biden is a
> candidate for federal office, and pursuing a case could jeopardize the fund?s
> nonprofit status. The Intercept reports the public relations firm representing
> Time?s Up Legal Defense Fund is SKDKnickerbocker, whose managing director, Anita
> Dunn, is top adviser to Biden?s presidential campaign.

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/4/1/headlines/ex_nevada_assemblywoman_accuses_joe_biden_of_inappropriate_touching

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/4/2/headlines/second_woman_alleges_inappropriate_touching_by_joe_biden

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/4/4/headlines/joe_biden_promises_to_respect_personal_space_after_inappropriate_touching_accusations 
-- 3 other headline stories from DN on women accusing Biden of "inappropriate touching".

If 3 stories published on almost subsequent days constitute a drumbeat, this drumbeat 
began and ended rather quickly (from 2019-04-01 through 2019-04-04). There is 
slightly more to be found with the search 
https://www.democracynow.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=biden+inappropriate+touching&commit=Search
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From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Tue Mar 31 13:11:07 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 08:11:07 -0500
Subject: [Peace] From Medialens
Message-ID: <A80F3760-3AD6-47E8-9FC6-0E36F1F80825@newsfromneptune.com>

https://www.medialens.org/2020/can-i-keep-you-safe-your-future-is-uncertain-climate-and-the-fate-of-humanity/#more-4690