Actual NY Times headline from Monday: "Putin’s Next Target: U.S. Support for Ukraine, Officials Say | Russian spy agencies and new technologies could be used to push conspiracy theories, U.S. officials say." by stickdog in WayOfTheBern

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Ho Chi Mihn got to CBS News, and Walter Cronkite!! The Reds Have Taken Over American Media To Make Sure Commie Harmony Reigns Supreme Between Vietnam, Soviet Russia, and Commie China!!! There'd be DOMINOES and NO VIETNAMESE NATIONALISM WHATSOEVER, BECAUSE COMMIE!!!! Impart this fantastic news on the neighboring Red Chinese!!!!

FNDP: Galleries of Covers 🎨🖼💿💽📻🎧🎶 by Martini in WayOfTheBern

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[The Minutemen] - "Dr. Wu" Steely Dan cover.

[The Minutemen] - "Green River" Creedence Clearwater Revival cover.

[The Minutemen] - "Ain't talkin' 'bout love" Van Halen cover.

RIP D. Boon.

Thoughts on Peter Daou joining Cornel West's campaign by SusanJ in WayOfTheBern

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Reminds me of the reports the 2020 Bernie campaign was saddled with a full complement of political consultant types, courtesy of the Dem Party. Big paychecks. And then it was over.

Bad Biden polls stoke third-party angst for Democrats by RandomCollection in WayOfTheBern

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Reminder: the Dems don't care all that much whether they win or lose. If they lose and the Republicans win instead, the Dems still win because they and the Republicans agree on 95% of their policies. The big money donor class wins either way too. None of this is coincidence.

@CornelWest and his new @GreenPartyUS team have completely DESTROYED his campaign. by captainramen in WayOfTheBern

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thanks.

BREAKING: Military coup in Gabon - Richard Medhurst by penelopepnortney in WayOfTheBern

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And I'd guess no interference involvement from the CIA or the French neoliberal exploiters, right? And no natural resources there worthy of extracting, exploiting, yeah? Probably a fucking desert with no oil, gold, uranium, diamonds, trace minerals, stuff for cell phones or nuclear power plants or EVs or anything!

[Due Dissidence] - "Rich Democrat Donors FREAK OUT at Climate Protestors" by mzyps in WayOfTheBern

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"GET OUT!"

Mass. white kids don't believe in the new Massachusetts fossil fuel projects supported, enacted by the MA Dem state government.

Also, white kids being "rude", earning the ire if not also the threatened violence of the rich people.

You know what the only virtue in this world is? Being rich, wealthy. Then you're powerful, like a super-hero. It must be nice not to need to give a fuck what the less fortunate care about, what they're up to, how their prospects are doing, etc. If you're wealthy, then you'll earn all the considerations, safety the less fortunate will have much longer odds on. Like climate change, COVID, political representation, clean air and water, healthcare, being able to pay your bills, take care of your loved ones, your stake in the empire, foreign military adventures, proxy wars, and regime change efforts.

Klaus Schwab says that everyone will have to get used to total transparency, and that if we have nothing to hide, then we have nothing to fear. by JimAtEOI in WayOfTheBern

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  • What will be the role of the super-wealthy in this Brave New World? Will they have lobbyists interacting with the ruling organizations? Will they and/or their representatives (e.g. lobbyists) meet at Aspen, Davos, G20, etc, to discuss plans for the rest of the population? Will the interests of the ruling class be looked after? At what cost?
  • How will the "tax avoidance" industry be doing? Off-shore tax havens? Double Irish? Ordinary bribery and corruption on a grand scale?
  • If Elon or Bezos or Gates or similar get a space ship to live off planet, or make themselves immortal, will you be in on the benefits? Will you have a Golden Ticket?
  • Won't war continue to be continuous, with support and oversight of the ruling class?
  • What powers will the global police state have? What equipment? What techniques and methods?
  • How do you justify the super-wealthy having so much power?
  • What's the role of IDPOL in the planned future world?
  • What will happen to the debts countries and individuals owe the wealthy and ruling class?
  • How do you expect the media to portray the powerful in the future?

FNDP: Touched by Sinéad 🍀 by Martini in WayOfTheBern

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[RBN] - "The Peter Daou Effect Continued! Dr. Cornel West on Bad Faith with Briahna Joy Gray" by mzyps in WayOfTheBern

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I think hearing Dr. West mention problems, difficulties, challenges with the Green Party, probably under the guidance of torpedo Peter Daou, is entertaining. "Processes, procedures, debates" are too much for the former fireband Dr. West. The Green Party ballot access is probably too much for Dr. West too. Dr. West continues to champion representing the poors of the black and indigenous communities -- but not to the point of having ballot access on all the states, because reasons. I listened to this as an additional backhanded criticism of the Greens, you know, because there's political history, political institutions, political culture, and Dr. West is a jazz man (doing improvisation) -- vigorously avoiding being on the ballots of 50 states.

I think Dr. West is running for Black Activist, and I wish him well with that. I would have thought he had already won being a Black Activist, so the turn to being a presidential candidate, and an intentionally ineffectual one at that, is a surprising disappointment. As long as he remains in the presidential race I look forward to his comments on the election events, and horse race. Dr. West can go back to calling Joe a "milquetoast neoliberal" and Donald a neofascist or whatever. No party ballot access though. Whew, Crisis Averted!

Russia will never tolerate Ukraine as a member of NATO by jerryk in WayOfTheBern

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The prize is Russia. That's why the hostile military alliance wants to fill the Russian border with advanced weaponry. There is no backing off. The western oligarchy would like to balkanize Russia for its own profits. It offends them that Russia does capitalism, with, until recently, Germany and the western European states. The plan so far has been to extend the war for a few more decades. Otherwise deceit and silence. Oh yeah, the plan helps keep the Euros dependent on North America. Peace with Russia? Only if Russia is owned and dominated by western capital. (What's it going to be like for the other players, you know, anywhere on the fucking globe?) What could go wrong?

Don't worry, your government and nation are likely implicated. Did people vote for this? What'll happen next? What will media news cycles be like out there in the far-flung future? Don't American still hate and want to kill Vietnamese by the truckload? North Koreans? Iraqis? Iranians? Afghanis? Syrians?

Thoughts on climate change? by Hydrogenbomb in WayOfTheBern

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Is greenwashing a thing? Will it be a thing in the future? Can opportunistic types make money off of it?

Thoughts on Peter Daou joining Cornel West's campaign by SusanJ in WayOfTheBern

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Well, other people continue to wish for Cornel West to drop out. Mr. Daou could be a means to that end. Or, he --- someone --- could be a competent CM. If he's a torpedo I guess we'll find out.

FNDP: Suggestive Lyrics 💕😻🍆🍑🍌🍩🥖🌮😋🥧🌭🌧️ by Caelian in WayOfTheBern

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Robert Johnson - Traveling Riverside Blues

you can squeeze my lemon 'til the juice run down my...('Til the juice rune down my leg, baby, you know what I'm talkin' about)

FNDP: Suggestive Lyrics 💕😻🍆🍑🍌🍩🥖🌮😋🥧🌭🌧️ by Caelian in WayOfTheBern

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The Cure - Let's Go To Bed

"You think you're tired now, but wait until three."

@CornelWest and his new @GreenPartyUS team have completely DESTROYED his campaign. by captainramen in WayOfTheBern

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Says the PP guy. Whew. PP guy goes on to try to draw attention to PP things Cornel+Greens haven't addressed or have not (yet) emphasized. OK, fair enough. Fair criticism I suppose, and indeed several items I care about. But I trust Dr. West, certainly to run the presidential campaign the way he wants, and to a lesser extent I trust the Greens. My PP guy, please don't chase clout by throwing unwarranted shade on Dr. West or the Greens.

The Green Party has represented the independent left for decades and has barely broken 1% of the vote in the last 20 years. It is a terminally woke and dysfunctional catastrophe.

I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000 and Jill Stein in 2016. Then and now I'm kind of proud of it. Dr. Stein was proclaimed to be a Russian asset, a Putin Puppet. I guess that's not being on the side of the American media/government Russiagaters, is it? It's not even 20 years ago, huh? Oh yeah. American politics now or 10, 20, 40 years ago, is mainly brow-beating the voters with fear. That's the Dems and the Republicans. They get help from the media. But I want to vote against the interests of Raytheon, Exxon-Mobile, Citibank, Goldman-Sachs, Moderna, etc., if I can. And if that's not possible I will not vote. You can fucking vote if you're scared into it. Be adult, "responsible" about being bullied, cajoled by MicroSoftNBC and the others about it though. Sure, someone else has done the thinking, done the marketing, to convince you and to scare you. It's for you, on your behalf. Sure.

Terminally woke? Have you seen Dem-related media in the past 10 years? Or terminally online social justice warrioring? If the Greens come up with the "Green New Deal", should we assume it's got to be woke and a catastrophe? Any expectations of politics, from anyone, in the next one, five, or ten years, being anything more than scolding and virtue signalling from either the "left" or the right? Shouldn't anything beyond left or right woke mania and zero be encouraged, praised? Well PP guy? What would the ruling class, investor class types have to say, in comment, response, reaction?

Disney's latest star with toxic diva tendencies displays the gross class divide in Hollywood with many veteran actors struggling to live while she demands money for every hour she is streamed. by rundown9 in WayOfTheBern

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Yeah, she's young, cute, and I'm not planning to watch the new Disney Snow White movie.

But, creative juices are flowing and I'd suggest this young woman play one of the spouse protagonists, even a gay or asexual spouse protagonists, in a reboot of "The Honeymooners" TV show, except this time through the lens of the a working-class milieu (instead of what the million-laughs original was portraying.) The Ralph Kramden character (i.e. perhaps this young lady or Ryan Gosling) could really smack the spouse around instead of just talking about it, there could be an "encounters with fentanyl" episode, problems at work, problems paying the bills, medical debt and bankruptcy, children, hetero romance story arcs, loneliness and alienation, social media addition, becoming an influencer and potentially having zero success or fleeting success, people of different religious backgrounds affecting the protagonists or their families/friends positively or negatively, etc.

I liked all the Disney movies when I was a child. I met people of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds as soon as I first went to school. I met many more throughout my life. I don't feel like I'm a copy or imitation of their backgrounds or even those of my "categories." Most people are much more complicated or unique than stereotypes of bigots or the woke.

I've watched a lot of Critical Drinker videos, as well as similar YT content creators. I don't agree with any of them on all things, e.g. Barbie, which I have not watched and feel no great need to assume it's all bad -- women friends say otherwise, they really like the Barbie movie -- or see it myself. I believe Disney is doing formulaic cash-grabs using existing IP, where part of the formula is to present some wokeness, or a lot of wokeness, while being willing to re-tell the story in a very different way, and not Rashomon-like use of different perspectives. For most of these products and most of their potential audience members, it's a matter of tricking the audience into signing up to see their product, as well as having them put up with what they decided to fill their product with.

I've seen two modernization movie versions of Shakespeare, one was Romeo and Juliet from a couple decades ago, and then another was a Spike Lee show about Chicago gangs. I thought the Spike Lee movie was entertaining (even if I never understand much original or modern-world Shakespeare) while the Romeo and Juliet modernization was forgettable, incomprehensible, not offensive but at least dull to someone of my ethnic/cultural/age background. I think of the Disney remakes in a similar way. Maybe someone will take up the cause of remaking Arnold Schwarzenegger's first Predator movie, except this time with an intentionally badly animated/CGI and an all-female cast. Or some Ursula Le Guin adaptations, with dark-skinned protagonists? Film adaptations of Frank Miller's graphic novels for Martha Washington or Hard Boiled?

From Sy Hersh: some interesting remarks on Ukraine by an unnamed American official by penelopepnortney in WayOfTheBern

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  • On the extent to which the United States has pushed Ukraine to be aggressive over the years with Russia and the ethnic Russians in Donbas, Crimea, etc.?
  • On the privatization efforts in Ukraine involving foreign investors?
  • On the possibility that US destabilization and pressure efforts against Russia will ever cease, or will ever cease escalation, barring Russia's utter defeat, ruin, devastation, and planned balkanization/dissolution?
  • On the military brass announcing expectations of going to war with China "in 2025"?
  • On the hints that if India is not more cooperative there'd be a U.S. war there?
  • On the status of the Empire?

According to a recent poll, 41% of the population support a proposed law to limit all French citizens to a total of 4 airplane flights over each's entire lifetime. 59% of 18 to 24-year-olds agree with this proposal. by stickdog in WayOfTheBern

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Next up, a lifetime limit on baguettes, escargot, bourguignon, and Napoleons. Lifetime rations for everyone! Except the rich are exempted!!

[Due Dissidence] - "James Carville CAN'T EXPLAIN Voters' Economic Frustrations" by mzyps in WayOfTheBern

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"We pump more oil than Saudi Arabia." -- Yeah, for export and the profits of the fossil fuel industry.

[MoonOfAlabama] - "U.S. Is Helping Israel To Commit And Hide War Crimes" by mzyps in WayOfTheBern

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I disapprove of my country, the United States, aiding and abetting the Apartheid Zionist State of Israel in their oppression, occupation, and violence against the people of Palestine. Weapons, military assistance, political cover, in the recent episodes as well as for many decades.

The United States government should change its support of Israel to be conditional on Israel existing as a free, just state with equal rights for all people in the area, whether they are Jewish, Palestinian, POC, Muslim, Christian, etc. Without American backing, the Zionist state would fall apart within one month.

Due Dissidence torches CODEPINK for not following the Way by MeganDelacroix in WayOfTheBern

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Proxy war is gonna proxy. Colored Tribe wars are especially rewarding.

@FiorellaIsabelM: "How far from the “revolutionary” that once went to the Soviet Union! Sanders isn’t just a disgrace to his supporters but a warmonger posing as an anti-war hero, arresting activists for simply wanting to stop arming NEO-NAZIS using depleted uranium & illegal weapons on civilians." by Maniak in WayOfTheBern

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Proxy war. Keep western Europe under control. More cash for North American fossil fuel companies, inordinately expensive for the Europeans. Empire across the globe. Sweet endless war, the big countries and the small countries. It maximizes profit for the ruling class, the investor class. It probably trickles down though, doesn't it? WEF and AI are on the way.

Canada speaker apologizes for honoring veteran who fought for Nazis by SmockSignals in WayOfTheBern

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The Ukrainian nonagenarian did fight the Soviet Union, but as part of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, “a Nazi military unit whose crimes against humanity during the Holocaust are well-documented,” according to the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Canadian human rights group promoting awareness about the Holocaust and fighting antisemitism.

The Waffen SS. Way to go, morons. Hey, in the modern day, proxy war has gotta proxy. Somebody has a Global Empire, and you're tasked with helping.