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The Growing Anti-Semitism Scam

 

 

 

 

 

 

In his novel 1984 George Orwell invented the expression “newspeak” to describe the ambiguous or deliberately misleading use of language to make political propaganda and narrow the “thought options” of those who are on the receiving end. In the context of today’s political discourse, or what passes for the same, it would be interesting to know what George would think of the saturation use of “anti-Semitism” as something like a tactical discussion stopper, employed to end all dispute while also condemning those accused of the crime as somehow outside the pale, monsters who are consigned forever to derision and obscurity.

The Israelis and, to be sure, many diaspora Jews know exactly how the expression has been weaponized. Former Israeli Minister Shulamit Aloni explained how it is done “Anti-Semitic”…”its a trick, we always use it.”

A Wisely and Well Modern Dress Othello: Was William Shakespeare a White Supremacist Or Anti-Racist?

Fresh from that championship season, A Noise Within’s Spring 2019 season blasts off with a must-see modern dress Othello that demonstrates why the Pasadena classical repertory theatre company just won the coveted Ovation Award for Best Season. Shakespeare’s tragedy is on one level, of course, an extremely up close and personal tale about betrayal, as well as about friendship, romance, sex, marriage and, but of course, that “green eyed monster”: jealousy.

 

But the Bard’s interracial angle plus the play’s power elite milieu elevates Othello to the ranks of Shakespeare’s 38 plays that are full of social commentary. And the modern dress plus non-traditional gender and ethnic casting components in ANW’s production - reportedly award-winning director Jessica Kubzansky’s stroke of genius - adds a whole new 21st century dimension to this drama penned in 1604. The dramatis personae who belong to the armed forces wear contemporary-looking camouflage and dress uniforms emblazoned with “fruit salad” medals, ribbons, etc., while civilians, including Venice’s officials, are garbed in 2019 plain clothes (all courtesy of costume designer Angela Balogh Calin).

Internet Trolls, Disinformation Agents and Big Vaccine

“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”- William Casey, Ronald Reagan’s first CIA Director (from Casey’s first staff meeting, 1981)

 

 

An internet troll isa person who starts quarrels or tries to upset people on the internet to distract and sow discord by posting inflammatory and digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the intent of provoking readers into displaying emotional responses and normalizing tangential discussion, whether for the troll's amusement or a specific gain. Sociopathic corporations use the technique to manipulate public opinion.

 

A disinformation agent publishes or otherwise provides false information that is intended to mislead. Disinformation is called propaganda when issued by government organizations, and it is called advertising when issued by corporations.

 

Hollywood Stars, Grassroots Activists, State Senator, Mayor & Major Organizations Ask Gov. Newsom to Fully Inspect Aged Diablo Canyon Nuclear Unit One Before it Re-Fuels

FOR RELEASE TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Hollywood Stars, Grassroots Activists, State Senator, Mayor & Major Organizations Ask Gov. Newsom to Fully Inspect Aged Diablo Canyon Nuclear Unit One Before it Re-Fuels

Contact: Mimi Kennedy (315) 246-7333; Harvey Wasserman (614) 738-3646 – solartopia@gmail.com; Myla Reson (310) 663-7660  – myla.reson@gmail.com

Dear Gov. Newsom,

We join hundreds of other Californians, including Sen. Ben Allen and San Luis Obispo Mayor Heidi Harmon, who are calling, writing, faxing and e-mailing, asking that you take action at Diablo Canyon to protect our safety and economic future. Under PG&E’s current bankruptcy and criminal proceedings, your position gives you wide ranging powers to act.

Wasted! The story of food waste -- February Green Drinks

Food container being shoved into a trash container and words Wasted and details about the film

Wednesday, February 20, 2019, 6:00 – 9:00 PM

#BlockTheWall Rapid Protest

Woman in cold weather gear holding a sign at a protest outside that reads The Trump Presidency is the REAL emergency

Over 100 people gathered on a cold Monday morning February 18th -- President's Day -- in downtown Columbus to protest what they called Trump's fake emergency on the border to justify his spending more money to build a wall. They marched to U.S. Senator Rob Portman's office to appeal to him to stop the fake emergency to stop the wall. 

Donald Trump’s Historical Illiteracy and the Dooming of America

Our Historically-illiterate (and proud of it) President Trump has Never Read the History of the Preventable Evils that were Loosed on America and the Planet by the President’s Corrupt Crony Capitalists in 1919

 

WARNING: Trump/Pence and their Cronies are Blindly Following the Formula for a 1929-style Stock Market Crash that is likely to be followed by a 1930s-style Great Depression)

 

“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” --  George Santayana

 

The following history lesson, taken virtually verbatim from the Encyclopedia Britannica is a perfect example of the old truism in the title (attributed to philosopher George Santayana).


Readers can draw their own conclusions from the following historical account of what can happen (like it did 100 years ago this year) when a group of greedy, unaccountable, authoritarian, Big Business-oriented ruling elites think that they can run a government like an inherently sociopathic, multi-national corporation.

 

The Green New Deal supported by Progressive Democrats of America

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We believe it is time for every citizen and elected official to show up and find the courage to face the climate emergency. We urge you to seize this moment and stand with all of us by supporting the Green New Deal resolution.

The recent reports from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the United States Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCS) confirm what our 2016 Democratic Party Platform had already declared - we are in a climate emergency and an urgent and immediate response is required. What is hopeful about these particular reports is that we have finally shifted from the abstraction of long-term timelines. They call for an emergency response now. This is the decade that matters.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY12) and our allies in the Sunrise Movement and The Climate Mobilization are leading the way forward with calls for real, bold, truthful action on climate; to turn away from gradualism. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez has proposed a resolution calling for a new Select Committee for a Green New Deal.

Mr. Genius

#BlockTheWall Rapid Protest Columbus

PHoto of white house with neon lights in front against black saying FAKE CRISIS NO WALL

Monday, February 18, 11am
LeVeque Tower, West Broad and Front Street, downtown Columbus
Trump declared a national emergency to fund a border wall for a fake crisis that he and his administration made up. Immigrants is what makes America Great and they aren’t a epidemic, they’re human. The true national emergencies we face are Reproductive Rights, Gun Violence, Climate Change, Infant Mortality, and the Opioid Crisis... oh and Trump.

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