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Hostile Takeover of Canada

Canadians are among the world’s calmest, most polite, and gracious people. They are also, in my experience, peaceful, honest and modest. You never see them angry – except for now.
Donald Trump, with his absurd megalomaniac claims to Greenland, Canada, Panama and now Gaza, has managed to do what no one else has done. He has made the United States hated across Canada, even in usually pro-American Alberta.

Imagining the Gaza Riviera and Other Follies

The problem is that those folks who are looking nervously at what President Donald Trump is doing to reshape the Middle East to the benefit of Israel are not looking deeply enough into the US domestic policy changes that are also being promoted that will strip Americans of fundamental rights like freedom of speech or association in any situation in which Israel or Jewish groups are involved, even marginally. It is as if the United States is fully engaged in two major tasks simultaneously. The first consists of supporting Israel uncritically no matter what it does or how many civilians it seeks to kill without necessarily overtly endorsing all the policies embraced by the monstrous Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cutthroat colleagues. This is the way President Joe Biden ran things aided by his Zionist Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Firing America: The Federal Worker Purge and the Illusion of Efficiency

As a former chair of a congressional investigative subcommittee, I witnessed and uncovered significant waste, fraud and abuse inside the government and in private sector contractual relations with the United States. But, through 16 years in Congress, I also witnessed countless federal workers who love this country, have dedicated their lives and worked long and hard to be of service to the people of the United States. They honorably did their duty and delivered when people needed help.

My excellent Congressional staff handled at least 11,000 requests for service, yearly. Our office was engaged with federal workers in dozens of agencies on an hour-by-hour basis to make government work for the people.

Over a period of sixteen years, diligent federal workers have intervened in all these cases and as a result changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of my constituents for the better.

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Accessory: Columbus, Ohio February 4th, 2025

Drumstick

Tuesday, I walked into Cafe Bourbon Street. I asked the doorman about the new Cheater Slicks single. The doorman said ”We’re finishing the artwork.” The Doorman plays in Cheater Slicks.

Tuesday at Cafe Bourbon Street, people were excited. Dehd’s Jason Bella’s Accessory were playing. Dehd is from Chicago and releases music from Fat Possum. Dehd is a known band in music. Dehd has released several albums.

Bourbon Street was filled with regulars and Dehd Heads. I don’t think Dehd fans are called Dehd Heads.

Dehd is band which sequences indie pop vocals with loud noise rock elements.

Accessory is a band with various members from the Chicago music scene – Jason Bella from Dehd with members of Meat Wave, Deeper and Ulna.

Accessory took the stage and started playing. I found out that Accessory February 4th, 2025 sounded like the Velvet Underground envisioned as a 70’s psych rock band. Or a 70’s hard rock band workshopping after hearing the Velvet Underground.

Everybody Knows covers songs about sports

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Dr. Bob Fitrakis and Dan-o Dougan spin tunes and talk about sports songs.

Listen live at 11pm February 7 and 14 streaming at wgrn.org or on the radio at 91.9FM
and
Mondays at 2pm streaming February 10 and 17 at wcrsfm.org or on the radio at 92.7 or 98.3FM

Archived on Mixcloud here

Rally to Defend Immigrant Families and the War on Black America

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Saturday, February 8, 2025, 12:00 PM
Ohio Statehouse, 1 Capitol Square, Columbus

https://www.facebook.com/groups/646205659294624/permalink/1676530256262154

The fight back continues! As we enter Black history month we honor the legacy of struggle. We are mobilizing to defend immigrant families, and we must defend the gains of the civil rights revolution which united struggles across our class! 

Join PSL as we continue building an independent movement against Trump and the billionaire agenda! We have the power to fight for a better world, but we have to be organized to take it!  Party for Socialism and Liberation.  

Remembering War Reporter Ann Garrels

Anne Garrels (1951 – 2022) was a US journalist who worked for National Public Radio during the Iraq war and authored of Naked in Baghdad.

 Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism students were mostly in high school when National Public Radio (NPR) correspondent Anne Garrels endured the “shock and awe” bombing of Iraq, chronicling her experiences in the book Naked in Baghdad. 

 But when she spoke at the university in 2008, that didn’t curtail their questions about the Abu Ghraib scandal, the dubious government contactor Blackwater, government censorship, reporters embedding with the active military operations and war reporting as a female when Garrels.

 Casually dressed in a leotard, flowered skirt, ballet flats and bare legs, Garrels discussed the progression of the war, the effect of escalating violence and kidnappings on reporting and everyday life in Iraq and her personal experiences as a reporter and a woman.

Here’s the Bush-Era Root of Trump/Musk’s Racist / Woman-Hating Attacks on “Dei”

Donald Trump & Elon Musk (he/himmler) have built their political power base on a retro white male “Christian” constituency that lives in total terror of strong women & people of color.

 

Here's the appropriate historic root “Southern Strategy” quote from Lee Atwater, George H.W. Bush’s very own Josef Goebbels, with [DEI] subbed in where it belongs:

 

"You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” 

"By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. 

"So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, [DEI] and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. 

"Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes [and DEI], and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks [and women] get hurt worse than whites [and men].… 

“We want to cut this [DEI] ,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”

DISSECTING THE DOOMSDAYS UPON US

We start with a beautiful statement from Grammy-winner ALICIA KEYS on the power of diversity.

We explore the real culpability of the White House—NOT diversity—for the air crash that has (thankfully) not had an equal in 25 years.

Radio Host LYNNE FEINERMAN tells us that the fiscal sponsorship for her non-profit radio show has disappeared.

From Minnesota’s frozen tundra we hear HEDY TRIPP reports from a DEI conference on the anxiety being imposed on women on people of color.

MYLA RESON reports that there are massive demonstrations in Los Angeles and elsewhere against ICE actions targeting immigrants.

Co-convenor MIKE HERSH urges an end to the circular firing squad.

Our Alabama heart doctor RUTH STRAUSS questions Trump’s comprehension of tariffs.

Health Justice Monitor’s DON MCANNE terms the attack on USAID as “catastrophic.”

We get a warning on DEI and the DC helicopter crash from NICOLE UNG.

“Where are the Democrats?” asks New York’s JULIE WEINER, a truly great election protection activist.

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