alanjjohnstone
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Janet, i think we are also guilty of not offering a degree of solidarity to Assange by not having a dedicated topic and its own thread. 😥
We represents the worse of the media hypocrisy reporting, being hung out to dry by the very people who used his whistle-blowing work to increase their circulation.
The Brit is still opposed to migrant workers and their xenophobia
Two-thirds of voters believe that EU nationals should have to apply to come to Britain rather than enjoy free movement, a new survey shows.
As many as 58% said that it should be neither relatively easy nor relatively difficult for people from France to come to the UK, while much the same was true of people from Poland (58%), Pakistan (55%), and Australia (53%).
A summary of the media’s neglect of the Julian Assange court-case
https://dissidentvoice.org/2020/10/none-of-it-reported-how-corporate-media-buried-the-assange-trial/
“How do you explain Europe’s peasantry siding with noble against bourgeois? (France) and with Tsar against Bolshevik worker (Russia).”
Did they?
The French Jacquerie? (perhaps i am stretching the time-line a bit) Napoleon’s rural support?
The SR Party?
Or Makhno?
Another refugee problem
In Nagorno-Karabakh region 50% of the population has been forced to flee, 90% of women and children — some 70,000 to 75,000 people
https://www.dw.com/en/half-of-nagorno-karabakhs-population-displaced-by-fighting/a-55183758
In response to Turkish support for the Azerbaijan, Armenia plays the genocide by Turkey card in the propaganda war
I’ve been told that the American War of Independence was a bourgeois revolution yet the colonies had no feudalism but many of the rebels had the land-owning status of colonial aristocrats and were chattel slave owners to boot but the wealthy mercantile traders were often the Loyalists – opposed to this “bourgeois” revolution… confused?….so am i.
In July, the U.S. Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service rubber stamped a demand by Tyson Foods and other multibillion-dollar meat conglomerates to deregulate chicken processing rules so they can sell chickens diseased with Avian Leukosis for human consumption. That’s chicken infected with a virus that produces cancerous tumors and lesions on the poor birds.
https://scheerpost.com/2020/09/07/trumps-usda-is-serving-up-cancerous-chicken/
White evangelicals make up roughly 15% of the population, but they vote in large numbers. According to National Election Pool exit polls, they made up more than a quarter of all voters in the 2016 US presidential election — and the overwhelming majority of them voted Republican.
“Abortion is one of the largest genocides in human history,” Manring tells DW. “I think everyone should want to stop it.”
Trump is what many of his supporters call the “most pro-life” president ever, and for the large number of evangelicals who are so-called single-issue voters, that’s what matters.
https://www.dw.com/en/us-2020-election-abortion-evangelicals-donald-trump/a-55159590
Around half of Fox News viewers think the climate crisis is caused by natural changes in the environment and not driven by human activities, according to a new study by Yale University.
The UK’s first large-scale farm breeding insects for animal feed and pet food has moved a step closer after the government backed the project with a £10m funding…this has a smaller environmental footprint than traditional ingredients for animal feed such as meat, soy and fishmeal.
Kudos to RobertS who tries to e-mail those cited or quoted in SS articles. Chomsky’s reply arguing for the “lesser awful” is in response to RobertS
<p class=”story-body__introduction”>US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday met with his counterparts from Australia, India and Japan in Tokyo to discuss how to counter China.</p>
The “Quad meeting” comes as all four countries seek to form a front against China.Richard Wolff joins the long line of vote for Biden, the lesser evil.
“Wolff is clearly disappointed with Biden’s center-left positions. As such, does he feel that electing Biden defeating Trump will help America?
“I don’t think it makes a major difference in dealing with the underlying problems, but it does make a significant difference in dealing with a whole set of other less foundational or less fundamental or less deeply rooted problems,” Wolff told Salon. “And so it’s crystal clear for me that, just for me personally, choosing Mr. Biden over Mr. Trump is a no brainer. And so I have no problem with people who make that choice. I would maintain that what I hear and see from Mr. Biden falls way short of coping with the kinds of issues that I try to raise in that book and in the work that I do generally.” He added, “I regret that. I think it’s a mistake on his part even within the framework of his objectives.” ”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/05/uk-court-overturns-ruling-on-18bn-of-venezuelan-gold
The control of more than $1.8bn worth of Venezuelan gold stored at the Bank of England has swung in favour of Maduro. The Venezuelan central bank has said the proceeds from the sale of the gold would be transferred directly to the United Nations development programme to procure humanitarian aid, medicine and equipment to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.
It set aside July’s high court judgment, which had found that Britain’s recognition of the opposition leader Juan Guaidó as the “constitutional interim president of Venezuela” meant the gold could not be released for the Maduro-backing bank.
It was necessary to determine whether “(1) the UK government recognises Mr Guaidó as president of Venezuela for all purposes and therefore does not recognise Mr Maduro as president for any purpose.
Or (2) HMG [the UK government] recognises Mr Guaidó as entitled to be the president of Venezuela and thus entitled to exercise all the powers of the president but also recognises Mr Maduro as the person who does in fact exercise some or all of the powers of the president of Venezuela.”
If the Foreign Office refuses to provide clarification, the appeal court said, it would be a matter for the commercial court on its own to decide if the British government recognises Maduro as de facto president.
The polls now appear to say that it will indeed be President Biden in 2020.
Sure the polls said Clinton was going to win but the pollsters understand where they went wrong and have corrected their forecasting techniques. They concentrate their polls on the important swing states for the electoral college.
There is no sympathy rebound for a Covid-stricken Trump
There is no hidden Trump support going unreported
It looks like it could be a substantial win for Biden and there will not be any grounds for any debate over the margin or fraud claims over the Biden victory.
The Lesser Evil will prevail.
Can it be reversed in the next televised debate? Very doubtful. Has he got a secret weapon? Very unlikely
And then we see is the expectations of the Justice Democrats and the Chomsky progressives will be in the streets to push Biden to the left and if Biden will bend to that pressure.
I have no doubt that we will be saying “told you so” and indulging in schadenfreude as the Biden White House passes legislation that reneges even on his watered down promises.
