I know I know, it's a Socialist Publication. But our Commercial Mass
Media is not debating climate change and our Human impact on it.
Carl Jarvis
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Climate activists debate how to reach zero
emissions in time
To: blind-democracy <blind-democracy@freelists.org>
https://socialistaction.org/2019/01/10/climate-activists-debate-how-to-reach-zero-emissions-in-time/
Climate activists debate how to reach zero emissions in time
/ 14 hours ago
jan. 2019 climate boy (loretta florance - abc)
Climate protest in Melbourne, Australia, in 2015 (Loretta Florance / ABC)
By CHRISTINE MARIE
In early December, the Global Carbon Project published statistics
showing that global emissions of CO2 rose 2% in 2018 to a record high.
As Sean Sweeney and John Trent from Trade Unionists for Energy Democracy
summarized in a Dec. 31 article, "When 'Green' Doesn't 'Grow,' " the
market-focused approach to climate protection that governments around
the world have been half-heartedly pursuing has left humanity in a
situation in which there is no real decline of fossil fuel production
and use.
Emissions will fail to peak—as science deems necessary—in 2020, and
government subsidies to private investors to create renewables have
produced far too little. The gap, Sweeney and Trent argue, between what
science says must happen and what is actually happening grows wider
every day.
A special 2018 report, "Global Warming by 1.5 ℃" by the UN's
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says that any hope of
limiting warming to a level that might prevent catastrophic changes to
our environment would require unprecedented shifts in land use, energy
production, industrial output, building, transportation, and the
organization of city life.
COP24, the most recent climate summit of global elites, which took place
in Katowice, Poland, last month, agreed upon no measures truly capable
of tackling this emergency. According to the climate justice lecturer
Nadja Charaby, the U.S. and Russia, with the help of Saudi Arabia and
Kuwait, managed to prevent even a symbolic acknowledgement of the truths
of the IPCC report.
In addition, the human rights plans developed at the previous Paris
climate summit, planks that call for funding to the poorest nations,
have become bargaining chips in a lose-lose game.
The industrialized nations have pledged to begin contributing an
inadequate $100 billion a year to the economically victimized nations
most severely impacted by climate change in 2020 but are delaying talks
on a necessary increase in this kind of funding ("COP24: No Response to
the Crisis," Dec. 24, 2018).
With scientists producing almost daily reports on the unexpected speed
at which glaciers are melting, species nearing extinction, the oceans
acidifying, and feed-back loops kicking in, the clear refusal of global
elites at Katowice to agree to stop fossil-fuel production and use has
kicked into high gear the climate movement discussion about what to do next.
The introduction of an outline for governmental action by the new
Democratic Congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has become a focal
point for debates about what the movement should be fighting for. Her
proposal, the so-called Green New Deal, has popularized the notion that
the necessary emergency transition to the goal of 100% renewable energy
by 2030 and a just transition for workers, can (1) only be successfully
carried out by the federal government and (2) that public financing will
be key to its success.
The mainstreaming of these key ideas, once only talked about in a small
wing of the environmental movement, has stimulated and given confidence
to new layers of activists. The movement discussion now includes
critiquing the specific and limited GND proposal put out by Ocasio-Cortez.
First to challenge the ambiguity of the GND proposals to end fossil fuel
production was Wenonah Hauter of Food & Water Watch. In "The Lessons
from a Burning Paris," she argued, "Any Green New Deal that includes
carbon pricing isn't green, isn't new, and isn't much of a deal."
Regressive carbon taxes or fee and dividend schemes don't work; they
only penalize the working class. The real path to getting rid of fossil
fuels, she said, is simple. It means a moratorium on new fossil fuel
extraction and infrastructure.
Activists from global climate justice groups, the Green Party, and the
peace movement noted the failure of the GND to even mention the
Pentagon, which is the single largest institutional consumer of fossil
fuels and the largest single contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.
Wars for fossil fuel resources are soon to become intertwined with wars
to keep climate refugees out of the richest nations. The billions
flowing to the Pentagon are an obvious source for funding an emergency
transition. Posing warming as a "security issue," as does Ocasio-Cortez,
opens the door for terrifying elite solutions to the economic
disruptions and mass migrations that climate change is producing.
One of the goals in the GND that has sparked the most disapproval is
"making "green" technology, industry, expertise, products, and services
a major export of the United States, with the aim of becoming the
undisputed international leader in helping other countries transition to
completely greenhouse gas neutral economies and bringing about a global
Green New Deal." That is, Ocasio-Cortez is proposing a solution in which
U.S. corporations produce unspecified types of technology and make a
profit selling them to the less developed world. This goal makes all the
passages in the GND that are ambiguous about the means of achieving the
transition look ominous. To what degree is the public financing in the
GND going to go to give incentives to private industry rather than using
the money to efficiently and directly carry out the emergency transition?
The very title of the project, "Green New Deal," suggests that this is
the course imagined. Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, despite the
mythology, was designed to prop up, not replace, the private banks and
industrial enterprises that were responsible for the Great Depression.
Very few incursions against capital ever took place and the aid to
unemployed workers was actually quite stingy. (See: "The Real Deal on
the 'New Deal,'" Socialist Action, December 2005,
https://socialistaction.org/2005/12/03/the-real-deal-on-the-new-deal/).
Trade Unionists for Energy Democracy has proven that public private
partnerships have failed to achieve climate goals even in the energy
industry. Only public ownership and democratic control of the entire
energy system can begin to give us the power to transition quickly and
completely enough. In truth, given that equally dramatic changes in
agriculture, transportation, and most industry will be necessary to
truly achieve carbon neutral emissions in the next twelve years, an
unambiguous drive to push beyond the prerogatives of capital must be the
orientation of the climate justice movement.
This points to the most fundamental weakness of the Ocasio-Cortez Green
New Deal project. John Qua, an organizer with the Sunrise Movement, a
youth group carrying out direct action in support of the Green New Deal,
has explained clearly that current promotion of the GND and the
mobilizations directed at getting legislators to sign on, are designed
to lay the groundwork for the campaigns of progressive candidates in the
2020 elections.
The practical activity proposed by the Sunrise Movement to other climate
activists is calling legislators. Later, these same activists will be
asked to campaign for Democratic candidates. The whole project is
designed to convince activists that their energy should be directed
toward preparing for the coming elections. Dramatic social change on the
scale required to save humanity and the planet however, has never come
through electoral activity. The abolition of slavery and other dramatic
social transformations have only come through mass independent
mobilizations independent of the big business political parties.
That this will be true in the face of climate emergency should be clear
by looking at the record of the Obama presidency. According to Carol
Dansereau, author of "Climate and the Infernal Blue Wave" (Nov. 13,
2018), under the supposedly climate friendly Obama regime, government
facilitated the biggest increase in oil production in U.S. history,
dramatically expanded natural gas production, avidly promoted fracking,
expanded pipeline construction by 20%, opened up more than 75% of U.S.
potential oil resources offshore, allowed coal leases that are
equivalent to 200 new coal-fired plants, and increased U.S. oil exports
by 1000 percent.
The reforms of the Roosevelt New Deal that actually benefited working
people, including the implementation of Social Security, were only put
in place because millions of workers and farmers undertook militant
action in industry, against landlords, and for social services and aid.
Today, we are not only faced with an impending economic downturn but
with a serious threat to the planet and human life itself. The
Democratic Party has never taken on private profiteers in the manner
needed today. The only way forward is the construction of a massive
movement—reliant only on ourselves.
We must use the power of labor, the power of community organization, and
create new institutions in which the movement can strategize to defeat
the most powerful economic interests that have ever existed. Let's take
the discussion stimulated by the Green New Deal into these as yet
uncharted waters now.
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Friday, January 11, 2019
Thursday, January 10, 2019
Re: [acb-chat] food for thought
This is a bunch of anti-American rhetoric and communist crap again and again and again
Sent from my iPhone
> On Jan 10, 2019, at 7:39 AM, Carl Jarvis via acb-chat <acb-chat@acblists.org> wrote:
>
> The following is worth reading and considering.
> Carl Jarvis
> *******
>
> Has the Ruling Class Finally Had Enough of Trump?
>
> Andrew Harnik / AP
>
> As the United States lurches toward its 2020 presidential election cycle, it
> is useful to revisit the central tension of Donald Trump's presidency. I'm
> speaking, of course, about his phony populism and the politico-financial
> establishment's utter contempt for his political ascent. As the Democratic
> field slowly takes shape, the question now is whether the ruling class has
> finally had enough.
>
> This is not to suggest that these elites dislike Trump for the same reasons
> a Truthdig reader might. Those who stand atop the nation's power structures
> have long been comfortable with American corruption, patriarchy, racism and
> outright sociopathy. For evidence, look no further than the disparate
> presidencies of the so-called American century.
>
> No, what's different and problematic for our country's oligarchs is that
> while the presidency has long served America's imperial interests, it has
> typically done so while purporting to stand for something more noble. The
> U.S. government and, above all, its executive branch, are expected to
> masquerade as forces for "good"-democracy, liberty and peace, at least in
> the abstract, and an outwardly multilateralist management of world affairs.
>
> Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, both Ivy League law school graduates, were
> skilled and telegenic masters of that ruse. Even the comparatively dimwitted
> George W. Bush had the basic courtesy to cover his hideous machinations in
> Iraq with the rhetoric of freedom. "Dubya" knew better than to openly and
> theatrically boast of U.S. arms sales to the murderous and absolutist rulers
> of Saudi Arabia.
>
> Trump is a new and different kind of presidential animal. He makes no
> pretense of himself, the presidency or the United States being about
> anything more than mercenary and socio-pathological self-interest. He gives
> not one flip about racial and ethnic diversity, equality or the state of
> global affairs, much less the fate of our planet.
>
> Trump openly mocks and assaults science, expertise and intellectual rigor,
> denying the obviously anthropogenic nature of our climate crisis. Openly
> assaulting the very notion of veracity, he repeats the same false statements
> long after they've been proven false by exhausted reporters.
>
> The president adamantly refuses to pretend that he, his office or the nation
> he represents lay any special claim to the notions of dignity or integrity.
> He eschews civility and graciousness, instead basking in an Archie
> Bunker-like disregard for political correctness. And he continues to use his
> Twitter account to pounce on his perceived personal and political enemies,
> turning Washington into an "Apprentice"-style (un)reality show.
>
> Trump embodies what we might call American unexceptionalism, behaving like
> one of the bizarre and petulant Third World dictators the U.S. has long
> sponsored around the world.
>
> But beyond being bad for the brand, Trump brazenly flouts ruling-class
> institutions and conventions. He does not consult the Council on Foreign
> Relations, the Atlantic Council, the Wilson Center or the Brookings
> Institution on foreign or domestic policy. He doesn't read policy briefs or
> white papers from establishment think tanks.
>
> Instead, he prefers to take advice from fellow wacky billionaires and
> right-wing media personalities with whom he regularly consults by phone late
> at night, alone in his bedroom, or via Fox News. He claims to know more
> about developments in other nations than his own top generals and spooks.
>
> It is unimaginable that any previous U.S. president would have defied his
> own intelligence agencies' finding that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin
> Salman ordered the killing of Saudi dissident and Washington Post journalist
> Jamal Khashoggi. Or stood next to Vladimir Putin in Helsinki to say that he
> believed the Russian president-and not the CIA-when he said that Russia did
> not interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
>
> Neither would any previous American president have deployed troops to the
> southern border in a transparent attempt to rally Republican voters on the
> eve of a midterm election. Or shut down the federal government, possibly
> "for years," in Trump's words, if Congress doesn't give him the money to
> build a useless wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
>
> Ultimately, Trump is the first man to ascend to the post-WWII U.S.
> presidency from outside the global consensus. In and of itself, that has
> been an incredible development, bothersome indeed to the United States'
> economic and military establishment. (The bad news, for the rest of us, is
> that he emerged from the white nationalist right rather than the egalitarian
> and social democratic left.)
>
> Still, there are real limits to the establishment's discomfort with Trump,
> who has been useful to the nation's rulers and owners in four key ways.
>
> First, for all his talk of protectionism, Trump is a rapacious neoliberal
> who has rewarded the 1 percent with personal and corporate tax cuts, as well
> as deregulation designed to funnel wealth upward. The superrich and their
> retainers in Washington have been willing to tolerate his misbehavior
> because his policies have lined their pockets.
>
> Second, the endless Trump circus functions to divert the masses from the
> corporate looting that his administration and much of Congress is advancing
> behind the scenes to devastating effect.
>
> Third, even as he serves the moneyed elite, the mendacious mogul currently
> occupying the White House has been deceptively labeled a "populist." His
> base is widely (and, for the most part, falsely) considered to be "the
> working class"-the white and "heartland" working class more specifically.
>
> The ruling class especially likes that. It allows it to point out what
> happens when the rabble is allowed to run rampant in politics, without
> proper checks and balances from the top down. It also gives it cover to
> suppress the genuine populism it fears most-democratic socialism. Unlike the
> reactionary "populism" of the right, which directs its rage at vulnerable
> communities, Bernie Sanders and his ilk are seriously and substantively
> opposed to corporate plutocracy and its enablers in the professional class.
>
> Fourth, Trump's awfulness lowers the bar for whoever might replace him in
> the White House. "Anybody but Trump" is understandable, but it opens the
> door for millions of Americans to gratefully welcome a Wall Street Democrat
> like Joe Biden, a cipher like Beto O'Rourke or, perish the thought, Hillary
> Rodham Clinton herself. Anybody-but-Trumpism is hard to resist, given the
> creeping fascism of our current president, but it intensifies the deadly
> superficiality of a candidate-selection process that functions to elect
> presidents well to the right of actual majority-progressive public opinion.
> And it marginalizes a genuine progressive like Sanders, who would likely
> have defeated Trump in 2016.
>
> So could the dual pressures of the working and corporate classes end Trump's
> presidency before the 2020 elections, whether through impeachment, the 25th
> Amendment or resignation? Up until last year, I felt highly confident in
> saying, "Not a chance," given the durability of his base and Republican
> control of the Senate, where 67 votes are required to remove a president
> following impeachment in the House.
>
> But things have changed radically since November.
> .The Mueller investigation, which likely contains blockbuster findings, is
> finally coming to a head-this after guilty pleas from Trump's former
> campaign manager and deputy campaign manager, his former national security
> advisor, his personal lawyer and a bevy of lesser players, all of whom have
> turned state's evidence on their former boss. It is distinctly possible that
> the final report will reveal Trump has engaged in criminal and impeachable
> activities.
> .Longtime fixer Michael Cohen named the president as an "unindicted
> co-conspirator" in criminal payoffs meant to keep Trump's sexual peccadillos
> out of the media on the eve of the 2016 election.
> .Robert Mueller's inquiry has invited separate inquiries into Trump's
> business practices, his administration and his associates. Subjects include
> obstruction of justice, money laundering, influence peddling by Gulf
> monarchies, and corruption in Trump's inauguration committee. It's about
> much more than just alleged collusion with Russia.
> .The midterm elections damaged Trump's stature in Washington, with the
> record Democratic turnout a referendum on his chaotic presidency.
> .The new Democrat-controlled House will bombard the administration with
> subpoenas, document requests and hearings that will certainly produce new
> disclosures of corruption, both in the executive branch and the Trump
> organization.
> .Numerous key White House personnel, including a chief of staff and a
> secretary of defense, have all but quit in disgust, and Trump is finding it
> difficult to fill the vacancies.
> .Top Republicans who were once strong Trump backers have publicly criticized
> some of his recent actions, including his unflagging support of the Saudi
> kingdom after the gory murder of Khashoggi, as well as his abrupt decision
> to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria. These Republicans have expressed open
> dismay over former Defense Secretary James Mattis' resignation.
> .Trump's approval rating has recently fallen to its lowest level since he
> infamously acknowledged "good people on both sides" of a neo-Nazi rally in
> Charlottesville, Va., in the summer of 2017.
> .U.S. stock markets just had their worst December since the Great
> Depression, with top financial analysts reporting widespread concern that
> Trump's trade policies-above all his trade war with China-could bring on a
> recession.
> .Economic turmoil seems ever more imminent, something that will sink Trump's
> approval rating to new lows, making him more of a liability than ever to
> many Senate and House Republicans.
> .An unhinged, increasingly isolated Trump has opened the new year with a
> ridiculous and highly unpopular government shutdown that has left roughly
> 800,000 federal workers without paychecks-all in the name of a preposterous
> wall along the southern border.
>
> All of this and more could convince the rich and Republican elites that
> Trump's presidency poses clear and present dangers to their economic and
> political bottom lines, and that it is therefore time to unseat him before
> the next national elections. Whether he stays or goes, however, the American
> ruling class is likely to escape a long-overdue rebellion that transcends
> the narrow confines of U.S. electoral and constitutional politics.
>
> Paul Street
>
> Contributor
>
> Paul Street holds a doctorate in U.S. history from Binghamton University. He
> is former vice president for research and planning of the Chicago Urban
> League. Street is also the author of numerous books,.
> _______________________________________________
> acb-chat mailing list
> acb-chat@acblists.org
> http://www.acblists.org/mailman/listinfo/acb-chat
Sent from my iPhone
> On Jan 10, 2019, at 7:39 AM, Carl Jarvis via acb-chat <acb-chat@acblists.org> wrote:
>
> The following is worth reading and considering.
> Carl Jarvis
> *******
>
> Has the Ruling Class Finally Had Enough of Trump?
>
> Andrew Harnik / AP
>
> As the United States lurches toward its 2020 presidential election cycle, it
> is useful to revisit the central tension of Donald Trump's presidency. I'm
> speaking, of course, about his phony populism and the politico-financial
> establishment's utter contempt for his political ascent. As the Democratic
> field slowly takes shape, the question now is whether the ruling class has
> finally had enough.
>
> This is not to suggest that these elites dislike Trump for the same reasons
> a Truthdig reader might. Those who stand atop the nation's power structures
> have long been comfortable with American corruption, patriarchy, racism and
> outright sociopathy. For evidence, look no further than the disparate
> presidencies of the so-called American century.
>
> No, what's different and problematic for our country's oligarchs is that
> while the presidency has long served America's imperial interests, it has
> typically done so while purporting to stand for something more noble. The
> U.S. government and, above all, its executive branch, are expected to
> masquerade as forces for "good"-democracy, liberty and peace, at least in
> the abstract, and an outwardly multilateralist management of world affairs.
>
> Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, both Ivy League law school graduates, were
> skilled and telegenic masters of that ruse. Even the comparatively dimwitted
> George W. Bush had the basic courtesy to cover his hideous machinations in
> Iraq with the rhetoric of freedom. "Dubya" knew better than to openly and
> theatrically boast of U.S. arms sales to the murderous and absolutist rulers
> of Saudi Arabia.
>
> Trump is a new and different kind of presidential animal. He makes no
> pretense of himself, the presidency or the United States being about
> anything more than mercenary and socio-pathological self-interest. He gives
> not one flip about racial and ethnic diversity, equality or the state of
> global affairs, much less the fate of our planet.
>
> Trump openly mocks and assaults science, expertise and intellectual rigor,
> denying the obviously anthropogenic nature of our climate crisis. Openly
> assaulting the very notion of veracity, he repeats the same false statements
> long after they've been proven false by exhausted reporters.
>
> The president adamantly refuses to pretend that he, his office or the nation
> he represents lay any special claim to the notions of dignity or integrity.
> He eschews civility and graciousness, instead basking in an Archie
> Bunker-like disregard for political correctness. And he continues to use his
> Twitter account to pounce on his perceived personal and political enemies,
> turning Washington into an "Apprentice"-style (un)reality show.
>
> Trump embodies what we might call American unexceptionalism, behaving like
> one of the bizarre and petulant Third World dictators the U.S. has long
> sponsored around the world.
>
> But beyond being bad for the brand, Trump brazenly flouts ruling-class
> institutions and conventions. He does not consult the Council on Foreign
> Relations, the Atlantic Council, the Wilson Center or the Brookings
> Institution on foreign or domestic policy. He doesn't read policy briefs or
> white papers from establishment think tanks.
>
> Instead, he prefers to take advice from fellow wacky billionaires and
> right-wing media personalities with whom he regularly consults by phone late
> at night, alone in his bedroom, or via Fox News. He claims to know more
> about developments in other nations than his own top generals and spooks.
>
> It is unimaginable that any previous U.S. president would have defied his
> own intelligence agencies' finding that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin
> Salman ordered the killing of Saudi dissident and Washington Post journalist
> Jamal Khashoggi. Or stood next to Vladimir Putin in Helsinki to say that he
> believed the Russian president-and not the CIA-when he said that Russia did
> not interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
>
> Neither would any previous American president have deployed troops to the
> southern border in a transparent attempt to rally Republican voters on the
> eve of a midterm election. Or shut down the federal government, possibly
> "for years," in Trump's words, if Congress doesn't give him the money to
> build a useless wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
>
> Ultimately, Trump is the first man to ascend to the post-WWII U.S.
> presidency from outside the global consensus. In and of itself, that has
> been an incredible development, bothersome indeed to the United States'
> economic and military establishment. (The bad news, for the rest of us, is
> that he emerged from the white nationalist right rather than the egalitarian
> and social democratic left.)
>
> Still, there are real limits to the establishment's discomfort with Trump,
> who has been useful to the nation's rulers and owners in four key ways.
>
> First, for all his talk of protectionism, Trump is a rapacious neoliberal
> who has rewarded the 1 percent with personal and corporate tax cuts, as well
> as deregulation designed to funnel wealth upward. The superrich and their
> retainers in Washington have been willing to tolerate his misbehavior
> because his policies have lined their pockets.
>
> Second, the endless Trump circus functions to divert the masses from the
> corporate looting that his administration and much of Congress is advancing
> behind the scenes to devastating effect.
>
> Third, even as he serves the moneyed elite, the mendacious mogul currently
> occupying the White House has been deceptively labeled a "populist." His
> base is widely (and, for the most part, falsely) considered to be "the
> working class"-the white and "heartland" working class more specifically.
>
> The ruling class especially likes that. It allows it to point out what
> happens when the rabble is allowed to run rampant in politics, without
> proper checks and balances from the top down. It also gives it cover to
> suppress the genuine populism it fears most-democratic socialism. Unlike the
> reactionary "populism" of the right, which directs its rage at vulnerable
> communities, Bernie Sanders and his ilk are seriously and substantively
> opposed to corporate plutocracy and its enablers in the professional class.
>
> Fourth, Trump's awfulness lowers the bar for whoever might replace him in
> the White House. "Anybody but Trump" is understandable, but it opens the
> door for millions of Americans to gratefully welcome a Wall Street Democrat
> like Joe Biden, a cipher like Beto O'Rourke or, perish the thought, Hillary
> Rodham Clinton herself. Anybody-but-Trumpism is hard to resist, given the
> creeping fascism of our current president, but it intensifies the deadly
> superficiality of a candidate-selection process that functions to elect
> presidents well to the right of actual majority-progressive public opinion.
> And it marginalizes a genuine progressive like Sanders, who would likely
> have defeated Trump in 2016.
>
> So could the dual pressures of the working and corporate classes end Trump's
> presidency before the 2020 elections, whether through impeachment, the 25th
> Amendment or resignation? Up until last year, I felt highly confident in
> saying, "Not a chance," given the durability of his base and Republican
> control of the Senate, where 67 votes are required to remove a president
> following impeachment in the House.
>
> But things have changed radically since November.
> .The Mueller investigation, which likely contains blockbuster findings, is
> finally coming to a head-this after guilty pleas from Trump's former
> campaign manager and deputy campaign manager, his former national security
> advisor, his personal lawyer and a bevy of lesser players, all of whom have
> turned state's evidence on their former boss. It is distinctly possible that
> the final report will reveal Trump has engaged in criminal and impeachable
> activities.
> .Longtime fixer Michael Cohen named the president as an "unindicted
> co-conspirator" in criminal payoffs meant to keep Trump's sexual peccadillos
> out of the media on the eve of the 2016 election.
> .Robert Mueller's inquiry has invited separate inquiries into Trump's
> business practices, his administration and his associates. Subjects include
> obstruction of justice, money laundering, influence peddling by Gulf
> monarchies, and corruption in Trump's inauguration committee. It's about
> much more than just alleged collusion with Russia.
> .The midterm elections damaged Trump's stature in Washington, with the
> record Democratic turnout a referendum on his chaotic presidency.
> .The new Democrat-controlled House will bombard the administration with
> subpoenas, document requests and hearings that will certainly produce new
> disclosures of corruption, both in the executive branch and the Trump
> organization.
> .Numerous key White House personnel, including a chief of staff and a
> secretary of defense, have all but quit in disgust, and Trump is finding it
> difficult to fill the vacancies.
> .Top Republicans who were once strong Trump backers have publicly criticized
> some of his recent actions, including his unflagging support of the Saudi
> kingdom after the gory murder of Khashoggi, as well as his abrupt decision
> to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria. These Republicans have expressed open
> dismay over former Defense Secretary James Mattis' resignation.
> .Trump's approval rating has recently fallen to its lowest level since he
> infamously acknowledged "good people on both sides" of a neo-Nazi rally in
> Charlottesville, Va., in the summer of 2017.
> .U.S. stock markets just had their worst December since the Great
> Depression, with top financial analysts reporting widespread concern that
> Trump's trade policies-above all his trade war with China-could bring on a
> recession.
> .Economic turmoil seems ever more imminent, something that will sink Trump's
> approval rating to new lows, making him more of a liability than ever to
> many Senate and House Republicans.
> .An unhinged, increasingly isolated Trump has opened the new year with a
> ridiculous and highly unpopular government shutdown that has left roughly
> 800,000 federal workers without paychecks-all in the name of a preposterous
> wall along the southern border.
>
> All of this and more could convince the rich and Republican elites that
> Trump's presidency poses clear and present dangers to their economic and
> political bottom lines, and that it is therefore time to unseat him before
> the next national elections. Whether he stays or goes, however, the American
> ruling class is likely to escape a long-overdue rebellion that transcends
> the narrow confines of U.S. electoral and constitutional politics.
>
> Paul Street
>
> Contributor
>
> Paul Street holds a doctorate in U.S. history from Binghamton University. He
> is former vice president for research and planning of the Chicago Urban
> League. Street is also the author of numerous books,.
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food for thought
The following is worth reading and considering.
Carl Jarvis
*******
Has the Ruling Class Finally Had Enough of Trump?
Andrew Harnik / AP
As the United States lurches toward its 2020 presidential election cycle, it
is useful to revisit the central tension of Donald Trump's presidency. I'm
speaking, of course, about his phony populism and the politico-financial
establishment's utter contempt for his political ascent. As the Democratic
field slowly takes shape, the question now is whether the ruling class has
finally had enough.
This is not to suggest that these elites dislike Trump for the same reasons
a Truthdig reader might. Those who stand atop the nation's power structures
have long been comfortable with American corruption, patriarchy, racism and
outright sociopathy. For evidence, look no further than the disparate
presidencies of the so-called American century.
No, what's different and problematic for our country's oligarchs is that
while the presidency has long served America's imperial interests, it has
typically done so while purporting to stand for something more noble. The
U.S. government and, above all, its executive branch, are expected to
masquerade as forces for "good"-democracy, liberty and peace, at least in
the abstract, and an outwardly multilateralist management of world affairs.
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, both Ivy League law school graduates, were
skilled and telegenic masters of that ruse. Even the comparatively dimwitted
George W. Bush had the basic courtesy to cover his hideous machinations in
Iraq with the rhetoric of freedom. "Dubya" knew better than to openly and
theatrically boast of U.S. arms sales to the murderous and absolutist rulers
of Saudi Arabia.
Trump is a new and different kind of presidential animal. He makes no
pretense of himself, the presidency or the United States being about
anything more than mercenary and socio-pathological self-interest. He gives
not one flip about racial and ethnic diversity, equality or the state of
global affairs, much less the fate of our planet.
Trump openly mocks and assaults science, expertise and intellectual rigor,
denying the obviously anthropogenic nature of our climate crisis. Openly
assaulting the very notion of veracity, he repeats the same false statements
long after they've been proven false by exhausted reporters.
The president adamantly refuses to pretend that he, his office or the nation
he represents lay any special claim to the notions of dignity or integrity.
He eschews civility and graciousness, instead basking in an Archie
Bunker-like disregard for political correctness. And he continues to use his
Twitter account to pounce on his perceived personal and political enemies,
turning Washington into an "Apprentice"-style (un)reality show.
Trump embodies what we might call American unexceptionalism, behaving like
one of the bizarre and petulant Third World dictators the U.S. has long
sponsored around the world.
But beyond being bad for the brand, Trump brazenly flouts ruling-class
institutions and conventions. He does not consult the Council on Foreign
Relations, the Atlantic Council, the Wilson Center or the Brookings
Institution on foreign or domestic policy. He doesn't read policy briefs or
white papers from establishment think tanks.
Instead, he prefers to take advice from fellow wacky billionaires and
right-wing media personalities with whom he regularly consults by phone late
at night, alone in his bedroom, or via Fox News. He claims to know more
about developments in other nations than his own top generals and spooks.
It is unimaginable that any previous U.S. president would have defied his
own intelligence agencies' finding that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin
Salman ordered the killing of Saudi dissident and Washington Post journalist
Jamal Khashoggi. Or stood next to Vladimir Putin in Helsinki to say that he
believed the Russian president-and not the CIA-when he said that Russia did
not interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Neither would any previous American president have deployed troops to the
southern border in a transparent attempt to rally Republican voters on the
eve of a midterm election. Or shut down the federal government, possibly
"for years," in Trump's words, if Congress doesn't give him the money to
build a useless wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Ultimately, Trump is the first man to ascend to the post-WWII U.S.
presidency from outside the global consensus. In and of itself, that has
been an incredible development, bothersome indeed to the United States'
economic and military establishment. (The bad news, for the rest of us, is
that he emerged from the white nationalist right rather than the egalitarian
and social democratic left.)
Still, there are real limits to the establishment's discomfort with Trump,
who has been useful to the nation's rulers and owners in four key ways.
First, for all his talk of protectionism, Trump is a rapacious neoliberal
who has rewarded the 1 percent with personal and corporate tax cuts, as well
as deregulation designed to funnel wealth upward. The superrich and their
retainers in Washington have been willing to tolerate his misbehavior
because his policies have lined their pockets.
Second, the endless Trump circus functions to divert the masses from the
corporate looting that his administration and much of Congress is advancing
behind the scenes to devastating effect.
Third, even as he serves the moneyed elite, the mendacious mogul currently
occupying the White House has been deceptively labeled a "populist." His
base is widely (and, for the most part, falsely) considered to be "the
working class"-the white and "heartland" working class more specifically.
The ruling class especially likes that. It allows it to point out what
happens when the rabble is allowed to run rampant in politics, without
proper checks and balances from the top down. It also gives it cover to
suppress the genuine populism it fears most-democratic socialism. Unlike the
reactionary "populism" of the right, which directs its rage at vulnerable
communities, Bernie Sanders and his ilk are seriously and substantively
opposed to corporate plutocracy and its enablers in the professional class.
Fourth, Trump's awfulness lowers the bar for whoever might replace him in
the White House. "Anybody but Trump" is understandable, but it opens the
door for millions of Americans to gratefully welcome a Wall Street Democrat
like Joe Biden, a cipher like Beto O'Rourke or, perish the thought, Hillary
Rodham Clinton herself. Anybody-but-Trumpism is hard to resist, given the
creeping fascism of our current president, but it intensifies the deadly
superficiality of a candidate-selection process that functions to elect
presidents well to the right of actual majority-progressive public opinion.
And it marginalizes a genuine progressive like Sanders, who would likely
have defeated Trump in 2016.
So could the dual pressures of the working and corporate classes end Trump's
presidency before the 2020 elections, whether through impeachment, the 25th
Amendment or resignation? Up until last year, I felt highly confident in
saying, "Not a chance," given the durability of his base and Republican
control of the Senate, where 67 votes are required to remove a president
following impeachment in the House.
But things have changed radically since November.
.The Mueller investigation, which likely contains blockbuster findings, is
finally coming to a head-this after guilty pleas from Trump's former
campaign manager and deputy campaign manager, his former national security
advisor, his personal lawyer and a bevy of lesser players, all of whom have
turned state's evidence on their former boss. It is distinctly possible that
the final report will reveal Trump has engaged in criminal and impeachable
activities.
.Longtime fixer Michael Cohen named the president as an "unindicted
co-conspirator" in criminal payoffs meant to keep Trump's sexual peccadillos
out of the media on the eve of the 2016 election.
.Robert Mueller's inquiry has invited separate inquiries into Trump's
business practices, his administration and his associates. Subjects include
obstruction of justice, money laundering, influence peddling by Gulf
monarchies, and corruption in Trump's inauguration committee. It's about
much more than just alleged collusion with Russia.
.The midterm elections damaged Trump's stature in Washington, with the
record Democratic turnout a referendum on his chaotic presidency.
.The new Democrat-controlled House will bombard the administration with
subpoenas, document requests and hearings that will certainly produce new
disclosures of corruption, both in the executive branch and the Trump
organization.
.Numerous key White House personnel, including a chief of staff and a
secretary of defense, have all but quit in disgust, and Trump is finding it
difficult to fill the vacancies.
.Top Republicans who were once strong Trump backers have publicly criticized
some of his recent actions, including his unflagging support of the Saudi
kingdom after the gory murder of Khashoggi, as well as his abrupt decision
to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria. These Republicans have expressed open
dismay over former Defense Secretary James Mattis' resignation.
.Trump's approval rating has recently fallen to its lowest level since he
infamously acknowledged "good people on both sides" of a neo-Nazi rally in
Charlottesville, Va., in the summer of 2017.
.U.S. stock markets just had their worst December since the Great
Depression, with top financial analysts reporting widespread concern that
Trump's trade policies-above all his trade war with China-could bring on a
recession.
.Economic turmoil seems ever more imminent, something that will sink Trump's
approval rating to new lows, making him more of a liability than ever to
many Senate and House Republicans.
.An unhinged, increasingly isolated Trump has opened the new year with a
ridiculous and highly unpopular government shutdown that has left roughly
800,000 federal workers without paychecks-all in the name of a preposterous
wall along the southern border.
All of this and more could convince the rich and Republican elites that
Trump's presidency poses clear and present dangers to their economic and
political bottom lines, and that it is therefore time to unseat him before
the next national elections. Whether he stays or goes, however, the American
ruling class is likely to escape a long-overdue rebellion that transcends
the narrow confines of U.S. electoral and constitutional politics.
Paul Street
Contributor
Paul Street holds a doctorate in U.S. history from Binghamton University. He
is former vice president for research and planning of the Chicago Urban
League. Street is also the author of numerous books,.
Carl Jarvis
*******
Has the Ruling Class Finally Had Enough of Trump?
Andrew Harnik / AP
As the United States lurches toward its 2020 presidential election cycle, it
is useful to revisit the central tension of Donald Trump's presidency. I'm
speaking, of course, about his phony populism and the politico-financial
establishment's utter contempt for his political ascent. As the Democratic
field slowly takes shape, the question now is whether the ruling class has
finally had enough.
This is not to suggest that these elites dislike Trump for the same reasons
a Truthdig reader might. Those who stand atop the nation's power structures
have long been comfortable with American corruption, patriarchy, racism and
outright sociopathy. For evidence, look no further than the disparate
presidencies of the so-called American century.
No, what's different and problematic for our country's oligarchs is that
while the presidency has long served America's imperial interests, it has
typically done so while purporting to stand for something more noble. The
U.S. government and, above all, its executive branch, are expected to
masquerade as forces for "good"-democracy, liberty and peace, at least in
the abstract, and an outwardly multilateralist management of world affairs.
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, both Ivy League law school graduates, were
skilled and telegenic masters of that ruse. Even the comparatively dimwitted
George W. Bush had the basic courtesy to cover his hideous machinations in
Iraq with the rhetoric of freedom. "Dubya" knew better than to openly and
theatrically boast of U.S. arms sales to the murderous and absolutist rulers
of Saudi Arabia.
Trump is a new and different kind of presidential animal. He makes no
pretense of himself, the presidency or the United States being about
anything more than mercenary and socio-pathological self-interest. He gives
not one flip about racial and ethnic diversity, equality or the state of
global affairs, much less the fate of our planet.
Trump openly mocks and assaults science, expertise and intellectual rigor,
denying the obviously anthropogenic nature of our climate crisis. Openly
assaulting the very notion of veracity, he repeats the same false statements
long after they've been proven false by exhausted reporters.
The president adamantly refuses to pretend that he, his office or the nation
he represents lay any special claim to the notions of dignity or integrity.
He eschews civility and graciousness, instead basking in an Archie
Bunker-like disregard for political correctness. And he continues to use his
Twitter account to pounce on his perceived personal and political enemies,
turning Washington into an "Apprentice"-style (un)reality show.
Trump embodies what we might call American unexceptionalism, behaving like
one of the bizarre and petulant Third World dictators the U.S. has long
sponsored around the world.
But beyond being bad for the brand, Trump brazenly flouts ruling-class
institutions and conventions. He does not consult the Council on Foreign
Relations, the Atlantic Council, the Wilson Center or the Brookings
Institution on foreign or domestic policy. He doesn't read policy briefs or
white papers from establishment think tanks.
Instead, he prefers to take advice from fellow wacky billionaires and
right-wing media personalities with whom he regularly consults by phone late
at night, alone in his bedroom, or via Fox News. He claims to know more
about developments in other nations than his own top generals and spooks.
It is unimaginable that any previous U.S. president would have defied his
own intelligence agencies' finding that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin
Salman ordered the killing of Saudi dissident and Washington Post journalist
Jamal Khashoggi. Or stood next to Vladimir Putin in Helsinki to say that he
believed the Russian president-and not the CIA-when he said that Russia did
not interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Neither would any previous American president have deployed troops to the
southern border in a transparent attempt to rally Republican voters on the
eve of a midterm election. Or shut down the federal government, possibly
"for years," in Trump's words, if Congress doesn't give him the money to
build a useless wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Ultimately, Trump is the first man to ascend to the post-WWII U.S.
presidency from outside the global consensus. In and of itself, that has
been an incredible development, bothersome indeed to the United States'
economic and military establishment. (The bad news, for the rest of us, is
that he emerged from the white nationalist right rather than the egalitarian
and social democratic left.)
Still, there are real limits to the establishment's discomfort with Trump,
who has been useful to the nation's rulers and owners in four key ways.
First, for all his talk of protectionism, Trump is a rapacious neoliberal
who has rewarded the 1 percent with personal and corporate tax cuts, as well
as deregulation designed to funnel wealth upward. The superrich and their
retainers in Washington have been willing to tolerate his misbehavior
because his policies have lined their pockets.
Second, the endless Trump circus functions to divert the masses from the
corporate looting that his administration and much of Congress is advancing
behind the scenes to devastating effect.
Third, even as he serves the moneyed elite, the mendacious mogul currently
occupying the White House has been deceptively labeled a "populist." His
base is widely (and, for the most part, falsely) considered to be "the
working class"-the white and "heartland" working class more specifically.
The ruling class especially likes that. It allows it to point out what
happens when the rabble is allowed to run rampant in politics, without
proper checks and balances from the top down. It also gives it cover to
suppress the genuine populism it fears most-democratic socialism. Unlike the
reactionary "populism" of the right, which directs its rage at vulnerable
communities, Bernie Sanders and his ilk are seriously and substantively
opposed to corporate plutocracy and its enablers in the professional class.
Fourth, Trump's awfulness lowers the bar for whoever might replace him in
the White House. "Anybody but Trump" is understandable, but it opens the
door for millions of Americans to gratefully welcome a Wall Street Democrat
like Joe Biden, a cipher like Beto O'Rourke or, perish the thought, Hillary
Rodham Clinton herself. Anybody-but-Trumpism is hard to resist, given the
creeping fascism of our current president, but it intensifies the deadly
superficiality of a candidate-selection process that functions to elect
presidents well to the right of actual majority-progressive public opinion.
And it marginalizes a genuine progressive like Sanders, who would likely
have defeated Trump in 2016.
So could the dual pressures of the working and corporate classes end Trump's
presidency before the 2020 elections, whether through impeachment, the 25th
Amendment or resignation? Up until last year, I felt highly confident in
saying, "Not a chance," given the durability of his base and Republican
control of the Senate, where 67 votes are required to remove a president
following impeachment in the House.
But things have changed radically since November.
.The Mueller investigation, which likely contains blockbuster findings, is
finally coming to a head-this after guilty pleas from Trump's former
campaign manager and deputy campaign manager, his former national security
advisor, his personal lawyer and a bevy of lesser players, all of whom have
turned state's evidence on their former boss. It is distinctly possible that
the final report will reveal Trump has engaged in criminal and impeachable
activities.
.Longtime fixer Michael Cohen named the president as an "unindicted
co-conspirator" in criminal payoffs meant to keep Trump's sexual peccadillos
out of the media on the eve of the 2016 election.
.Robert Mueller's inquiry has invited separate inquiries into Trump's
business practices, his administration and his associates. Subjects include
obstruction of justice, money laundering, influence peddling by Gulf
monarchies, and corruption in Trump's inauguration committee. It's about
much more than just alleged collusion with Russia.
.The midterm elections damaged Trump's stature in Washington, with the
record Democratic turnout a referendum on his chaotic presidency.
.The new Democrat-controlled House will bombard the administration with
subpoenas, document requests and hearings that will certainly produce new
disclosures of corruption, both in the executive branch and the Trump
organization.
.Numerous key White House personnel, including a chief of staff and a
secretary of defense, have all but quit in disgust, and Trump is finding it
difficult to fill the vacancies.
.Top Republicans who were once strong Trump backers have publicly criticized
some of his recent actions, including his unflagging support of the Saudi
kingdom after the gory murder of Khashoggi, as well as his abrupt decision
to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria. These Republicans have expressed open
dismay over former Defense Secretary James Mattis' resignation.
.Trump's approval rating has recently fallen to its lowest level since he
infamously acknowledged "good people on both sides" of a neo-Nazi rally in
Charlottesville, Va., in the summer of 2017.
.U.S. stock markets just had their worst December since the Great
Depression, with top financial analysts reporting widespread concern that
Trump's trade policies-above all his trade war with China-could bring on a
recession.
.Economic turmoil seems ever more imminent, something that will sink Trump's
approval rating to new lows, making him more of a liability than ever to
many Senate and House Republicans.
.An unhinged, increasingly isolated Trump has opened the new year with a
ridiculous and highly unpopular government shutdown that has left roughly
800,000 federal workers without paychecks-all in the name of a preposterous
wall along the southern border.
All of this and more could convince the rich and Republican elites that
Trump's presidency poses clear and present dangers to their economic and
political bottom lines, and that it is therefore time to unseat him before
the next national elections. Whether he stays or goes, however, the American
ruling class is likely to escape a long-overdue rebellion that transcends
the narrow confines of U.S. electoral and constitutional politics.
Paul Street
Contributor
Paul Street holds a doctorate in U.S. history from Binghamton University. He
is former vice president for research and planning of the Chicago Urban
League. Street is also the author of numerous books,.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall...
Donald Trump Jr. says zoo enclosures show 'walls work'
Humpty Trumpty sat on his wall.
Humpty Trumpty had a great fall
And all of his Judges, his staff and his Kin,
Couldn't put Trumpty together again.
Carl Jarvis
Humpty Trumpty sat on his wall.
Humpty Trumpty had a great fall
And all of his Judges, his staff and his Kin,
Couldn't put Trumpty together again.
Carl Jarvis
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Re: [blind-democracy] Civil Rights Institute Cancels Gala Honoring Angela Davis After Outcry From Jewish Community
Angela Davis, one of our finest minds. I place her with Noam Chomsky
on my list of "Most perceptive" Americans.
As for Birmingham's prominent civil rights museum? If they had any
integrity they would blush with shame and close their doors forever.
Angela Davis's response was Classic Angela Davis.
Carl Jarvis
On 1/8/19, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
> Civil Rights Institute Cancels Gala Honoring Angela Davis After Outcry From
> Jewish Community
> By Michael Harriot, The Root
> 08 January 19
>
> One of the nation's most prominent civil rights museums has reneged on its
> plans to celebrate one of America's most outspoken freedom fighters,
> igniting a national controversy after seemingly genuflecting to grumbles
> from the area's Jewish community.
>
> On Jan. 4, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute released a weirdly
> nonspecific statement canceling its plans to bestow the institute's highest
> honor upon Angela Davis, a Birmingham, Alabama, native. The ceremony was
> supposed to serve as the centerpiece of the museum's annual gala, planned
> for Feb. 19.
>
> In October, AL.com reported that Andrea Taylor, the Institute's CEO, called
> Davis "one of the most globally recognized champions of human rights, giving
> voice to those who are powerless to speak," announcing that they were
> "thrilled" to honor the educator, author, activist, and Birmingham native.
>
> Then suddenly, they weren't so thrilled.
>
> "In September of 2018, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute's Board of
> Directors selected Angela Davis to receive the prestigious Fred
> Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award at its annual gala in February 2019," the
> statement posted on the BCRI's website began, continuing:
>
> In late December, supporters and other concerned individuals and
> organizations, both inside and outside of our local community, began to make
> requests that we reconsider our decision.
>
> Upon closer examination of Ms. Davis' statements and public record, we
> concluded that she unfortunately does not meet all of the criteria on which
> the award is based. Therefore, on January 4, BCRI's Board voted to rescind
> its invitation to Ms. Davis to honor her with the Shuttlesworth Award. While
> we recognize Ms. Davis' stature as a scholar and prominent figure in civil
> rights history, we believe this decision is consistent with the ideals of
> the award's namesake, Rev. Shuttlesworth.
>
> We regret that this change is necessary, and apologize to our supporters,
> the community and Ms. Davis for the confusion we have caused. We will move
> forward with a keen focus on our mission: to enlighten each generation about
> civil and human rights by exploring our common past and working together in
> the present to build a better future.
>
> The associated gala event, scheduled for February 16th at Haven has been
> cancelled. Ticket purchasers will received a full refund.
>
> Because the BCRI was less than transparent in its statement, many people
> wondered why the institute would moonwalk back its support for the hometown
> heroine. Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin cleared up some of the confusion
> in expressing his discontent with the Institute's decision. In a statement
> Sunday, Woodfin said:
>
> As I consider the controversy over the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute's
> decision to honor Dr. Angela Davis with the Fred L. Shuttlesworth Human
> Rights Award and its subsequent decision to rescind that honor after
> protests from our local Jewish community and some of its allies, my
> overriding feeling is one of dismay.
>
> "I am dismayed because this controversy is playing out in a way that harks
> backward, rather than forward," Woodfin continued, adding that the decision
> "portrays us as the same Birmingham we always have been, rather than the one
> we want to be."
>
> According to people familiar with BCRI's decision, the institute's reversal
> is centered around the local Jewish community's opposition with what the
> Associated Press describes as Davis' support for the Boycott, Divestment,
> and Sanctions movement, which seeks to rectify Israel's treatment of
> Palestinians. Soon after the institute announced their plans to honor Davis,
> Southern Jewish Life magazine published what could only be described as a
> "hit piece" detailing Davis's support of policies that are often seen as
> anti-Israel.
>
> "Something not included in the Institute's publicity for the event," the
> article reads, "is that Davis has also been an outspoken voice in the
> boycott-Israel movement, and advocates extensively on college campuses for
> the isolation of the Jewish state, saying Israel engages in ethnic cleansing
> and is connected to police violence against African-Americans in the United
> States."
>
> According to AL.com, local organizers have vowed to protest the institution
> if the author and internationally known academic does not receive the award.
> Activists and academics around the country were outraged by the
> organization's decision to bow to outside pressure, noting, among other
> things, Davis' long history in the struggle for equality for people of all
> colors, races, religions, and gender.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Davis was born and raised in Birmingham's "Dynamite Hill," whose nickname
> comes from the more than 50 bombings by white supremacists trying to thwart
> integration during the civil rights era. She became a professor at the
> University of California's Los Angeles campus and was known for her radical
> feminism and her involvement with both the Communist Party USA and the Black
> Panthers.
>
> After authorities accused Davis of purchasing weapons used in a 1970
> courtroom takeover and police shooting, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover made
> Davis the third woman to ever be listed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted
> Fugitives list. She briefly went on the run, was arrested, and placed in
> solitary confinement.
>
> Davis was acquitted of all charges.
>
> She has authored a dozen books on race, class, feminism, sexual abuse, and
> mass incarceration. Her life's work has been fighting for justice and
> equality around the world.
>
> Using the hashtag #IStandWithAngela, social media users have pointed out
> that Davis' position on Israel is not only consistent with her work and
> teachings, but it is also right.
>
>
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>
>
> Such is the problem with so-called allies.
>
> Their support is always contingent upon their control. They believe that
> they should have a say over what and whom Black America deems "acceptable."
> Black protest is respectable until it appears on their street, dishonors
> their agenda, or pops up during their football games. Everyone is cool with
> the march as long as their toes aren't stepped on.
>
> Even worse, we are often all too willing to comply.
>
> But I shouldn't say "we."
>
> More than half of the BCRI's Board of Directors, including its chairman, are
> not black.
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on my list of "Most perceptive" Americans.
As for Birmingham's prominent civil rights museum? If they had any
integrity they would blush with shame and close their doors forever.
Angela Davis's response was Classic Angela Davis.
Carl Jarvis
On 1/8/19, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
> Civil Rights Institute Cancels Gala Honoring Angela Davis After Outcry From
> Jewish Community
> By Michael Harriot, The Root
> 08 January 19
>
> One of the nation's most prominent civil rights museums has reneged on its
> plans to celebrate one of America's most outspoken freedom fighters,
> igniting a national controversy after seemingly genuflecting to grumbles
> from the area's Jewish community.
>
> On Jan. 4, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute released a weirdly
> nonspecific statement canceling its plans to bestow the institute's highest
> honor upon Angela Davis, a Birmingham, Alabama, native. The ceremony was
> supposed to serve as the centerpiece of the museum's annual gala, planned
> for Feb. 19.
>
> In October, AL.com reported that Andrea Taylor, the Institute's CEO, called
> Davis "one of the most globally recognized champions of human rights, giving
> voice to those who are powerless to speak," announcing that they were
> "thrilled" to honor the educator, author, activist, and Birmingham native.
>
> Then suddenly, they weren't so thrilled.
>
> "In September of 2018, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute's Board of
> Directors selected Angela Davis to receive the prestigious Fred
> Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award at its annual gala in February 2019," the
> statement posted on the BCRI's website began, continuing:
>
> In late December, supporters and other concerned individuals and
> organizations, both inside and outside of our local community, began to make
> requests that we reconsider our decision.
>
> Upon closer examination of Ms. Davis' statements and public record, we
> concluded that she unfortunately does not meet all of the criteria on which
> the award is based. Therefore, on January 4, BCRI's Board voted to rescind
> its invitation to Ms. Davis to honor her with the Shuttlesworth Award. While
> we recognize Ms. Davis' stature as a scholar and prominent figure in civil
> rights history, we believe this decision is consistent with the ideals of
> the award's namesake, Rev. Shuttlesworth.
>
> We regret that this change is necessary, and apologize to our supporters,
> the community and Ms. Davis for the confusion we have caused. We will move
> forward with a keen focus on our mission: to enlighten each generation about
> civil and human rights by exploring our common past and working together in
> the present to build a better future.
>
> The associated gala event, scheduled for February 16th at Haven has been
> cancelled. Ticket purchasers will received a full refund.
>
> Because the BCRI was less than transparent in its statement, many people
> wondered why the institute would moonwalk back its support for the hometown
> heroine. Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin cleared up some of the confusion
> in expressing his discontent with the Institute's decision. In a statement
> Sunday, Woodfin said:
>
> As I consider the controversy over the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute's
> decision to honor Dr. Angela Davis with the Fred L. Shuttlesworth Human
> Rights Award and its subsequent decision to rescind that honor after
> protests from our local Jewish community and some of its allies, my
> overriding feeling is one of dismay.
>
> "I am dismayed because this controversy is playing out in a way that harks
> backward, rather than forward," Woodfin continued, adding that the decision
> "portrays us as the same Birmingham we always have been, rather than the one
> we want to be."
>
> According to people familiar with BCRI's decision, the institute's reversal
> is centered around the local Jewish community's opposition with what the
> Associated Press describes as Davis' support for the Boycott, Divestment,
> and Sanctions movement, which seeks to rectify Israel's treatment of
> Palestinians. Soon after the institute announced their plans to honor Davis,
> Southern Jewish Life magazine published what could only be described as a
> "hit piece" detailing Davis's support of policies that are often seen as
> anti-Israel.
>
> "Something not included in the Institute's publicity for the event," the
> article reads, "is that Davis has also been an outspoken voice in the
> boycott-Israel movement, and advocates extensively on college campuses for
> the isolation of the Jewish state, saying Israel engages in ethnic cleansing
> and is connected to police violence against African-Americans in the United
> States."
>
> According to AL.com, local organizers have vowed to protest the institution
> if the author and internationally known academic does not receive the award.
> Activists and academics around the country were outraged by the
> organization's decision to bow to outside pressure, noting, among other
> things, Davis' long history in the struggle for equality for people of all
> colors, races, religions, and gender.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Davis was born and raised in Birmingham's "Dynamite Hill," whose nickname
> comes from the more than 50 bombings by white supremacists trying to thwart
> integration during the civil rights era. She became a professor at the
> University of California's Los Angeles campus and was known for her radical
> feminism and her involvement with both the Communist Party USA and the Black
> Panthers.
>
> After authorities accused Davis of purchasing weapons used in a 1970
> courtroom takeover and police shooting, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover made
> Davis the third woman to ever be listed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted
> Fugitives list. She briefly went on the run, was arrested, and placed in
> solitary confinement.
>
> Davis was acquitted of all charges.
>
> She has authored a dozen books on race, class, feminism, sexual abuse, and
> mass incarceration. Her life's work has been fighting for justice and
> equality around the world.
>
> Using the hashtag #IStandWithAngela, social media users have pointed out
> that Davis' position on Israel is not only consistent with her work and
> teachings, but it is also right.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Such is the problem with so-called allies.
>
> Their support is always contingent upon their control. They believe that
> they should have a say over what and whom Black America deems "acceptable."
> Black protest is respectable until it appears on their street, dishonors
> their agenda, or pops up during their football games. Everyone is cool with
> the march as long as their toes aren't stepped on.
>
> Even worse, we are often all too willing to comply.
>
> But I shouldn't say "we."
>
> More than half of the BCRI's Board of Directors, including its chairman, are
> not black.
>
>
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Re: [acb-chat] just some food for thought
A good question, Jack. Just who is going to do our menial grunge work
if we keep the Hispanics on the Mexican side of the continent? As far
as American citizens doing the labor in the fields, it's not a
question of being too lazy. It's a question of not earning enough to
afford to exist.
As a child, we would load up the old Hudson and head out to explore
our great state of Washington. In Central Washington, around Yakima,
I remember seeing long rows of what looked like large chicken hatches.
I asked my dad what sort of animals were kept there. "Human animals",
he told me. "Those are the shacks the laborers live in when they're
picking crops.
As a teenager, along with a bunch of school chums, I spent my summers
picking strawberries and beans and pie cherries. Back in 1952 through
1954, I tucked away enough to pay for my first year at college. Of
course back then college was close to free. Tuition for a quarter was
$50. Books ran about $3 or $4 each. I lived at home and spent ten
cents each way on the bus. On a good day I could earn about $12, and
seldom less than $8. Most of the farmers had trucks or buses that
would park early in the morning at the Sears parking lot. Many of the
men from Skid Road would show up, along with large numbers of migrant
workers. Usually the Skid Road men would pick one day and then be
gone for the next two or three days. The migrant workers showed up
every day. Some of them, mostly mothers who were hauling small
children along, could pick about $20 in a day. My best day ever was
$15. Beans paid 2.5 cents a pound. Strawberries paid by the
flat...but I've forgotten how much that was.
It was hard, dirty, hot work. But I was a teenager out with a crowd
of friends. The others were trying to earn enough to survive. They
were not young, and they were not having fun.
Over the years during which I worked in an office with a great number
of white collar folks, there was a tendency to "Put Down" manual
laborers. And among the government workers there was status snobbery.
Supervisors looked down on clerical, managers looked down on their
staffs, and Directors felt superior to everyone. I used to tell my
coworkers that our boss was the state legislature. And the
legislature, mostly self employed or doctors or professors, believed
that all state workers were slugs and whiners. From Director to
Janitor, we were all a blight on humanity.
My dad was fond of saying, "There is dignity in all labor". But we
live in a world whose bottom line is profit. So we screw down on
those beneath us in order to squeeze every extra red cent out of their
labor. We sneer at them and belittle them and tell them that they
made their own bed.
If we truly believe that some of us are superior to others and deserve
to be treated royally, then there is no answer to your question. But
if we believe that together we can assist one another to realize our
maximum potential, then we must take action.
First we need to come together and discuss our common outcomes, our
goals. Then we must discuss how to structure a government that will
support our goals. Then we must plan on the most effective way of
transforming our existing government. This would be nice and easy
except for one sticky little point. Those now in control do not have
any plans to turn over control.
Carl Jarvis
On 1/9/19, Jack Zimmerman via acb-chat <acb-chat@acblists.org> wrote:
> Here is a question I have asked many many times and no one has ever aniwered
> it to my satisfaction so I'll ask it on here.
> Who pray tell, just exactly who, do tell me? Is gonna do the jobs
> immigrants are willing to do, to make money to suppot their families to try
> and MAKE a better life for themselves? Who is gonnd do that work that
> american workers do not want to do or have become TO Lazy or uncarsh to
> do?? THE late John MacCain said something I really liked. And I am not his
> biggest fan but he said, America became great from pulling walls DOWN, not
> building them!
>
>
>
>
>
> Jack and Bex
> :-)
>
>
>
>
>> On Jan 8, 2019, at 4:28 PM, Carl Jarvis via acb-chat
>> <acb-chat@acblists.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Ray, and a special Hello to those Left Wing Mumbo Jumbos.
>> I've never been able to understand why some folks need to discredit
>> the opinions of others. I mean, like, did someone crown them God All
>> Mighty?
>> This goes back to my problem with labeling. We say, "mumbo jumbo" and
>> that labels what the other person says as stupid. If this is how some
>> folks like to be treated, just email me off-list and I'll fill your
>> quota of insults. But on this list we ought to treat others opinions
>> in the manner we want our opinions treated...we don't have to believe
>> them, but we can at least treat them with respect.
>> Ray wrote: "the steady influx of outsiders does nothing more than
>> weaken America."
>> Good comment, Ray. Do you know who first uttered those words? It was
>> Sitting Bull. And was he right! Old SB had been fighting for a wall
>> along the Eastern Seaboard. His fellow Chieftains argued that a few
>> foreigners would be okay for the Buffalo hunts and the smoking of the
>> tons of meat needed for survival over the long cold winters.
>> I think it's just Human Nature that gives us that, "Dog in the Manger"
>> attitude. We got this land and we're damned if we're gonna share.
>>
>> I was talking with Kicks a Hole in the Sky, and Everybody Talks About,
>> the other day outside their brand new Casino and Guest Hotel, right
>> next to their 18 hole golf course.
>> "Let the immigrants come on over," they told me. "You White folk
>> don't want to work, and you're undependable and always bitching about
>> wanting more money."
>> "You got some place to talk," I came back. "Look at all the garbage
>> you guys toss out your doors until it's higher than the houses".
>> "We're just protecting the land," they told me.
>> Damned uppity Indians, anyway!
>>
>> Carl Jarvis
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 1/8/19, Ray Williams via acb-chat <acb-chat@acblists.org> wrote:
>>> it would seem that the left wing mumbo jumbo holds sway here also.
>>> did anyone ever stop to think that he may just be correct in trying to
>>> do something about this countrys lax security? after all, the influx
>>> of central and south American people is in fact nothing more than a
>>> slow motion invasion. that is in fact the case no matter how uyoiu
>>> look at it. the steady influx of outsiders does nothing more than
>>> weaken America. and if that is not enough, the demos seem hell-bent
>>> on grabbing total power at any cost. they just don't care about you
>>> or me at all. they want power just for the sake of having power. in
>>> point of fact, they have nothing constructive to add at this point.
>>> all they want is to tear down what has been built at such high const
>>> by those who have gone before us---ray
>>>
>>>> On 1/8/19, Bob Hachey via acb-chat <acb-chat@acblists.org> wrote:
>>>> Hi Frank,
>>>> Thanks for sharing and I stand corrected. Somehow, I thought maybe it
>>>> was
>>>> the cap on state tax deductions that got you.
>>>> This elimination of deductible expenses will be very hard on many folks
>>>> as
>>>> you say and could hit many small businesses very hard if I'm
>>>> understanding
>>>> this stuff correctly. Trump and the Republicans promised to simplify
>>>> the
>>>> tax
>>>> code, but it llooks like they simply created a different set of winners
>>>> and
>>>> losers. This looks to be a more regressive tax code. Hey there,
>>>> Republicans,
>>>> thanks a heap!!!
>>>> Bob Hachey
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Frank Ventura via acb-chat [mailto:acb-chat@acblists.org]
>>>> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2019 8:00 PM
>>>> To: General discussion list for ACB members and friends where a wide
>>>> range
>>>> of topics from blindness to politics, issues of the day or whatever
>>>> comes
>>>> to
>>>> mind are welcome. This is a free form discussion list.
>>>> Cc: Frank Ventura
>>>> Subject: Re: [acb-chat] just some food for thought
>>>>
>>>> Bob, I have a great deal of out-of-pocket work related expenses that
>>>> are
>>>> not
>>>> reimbursed by my employer. In the past I have taken them as federal
>>>> deductions. According to my tax accountant, under the new code those
>>>> are
>>>> eliminated in lieu of an increased standard deduction which still is
>>>> considerably less than the deduction I was getting due to those
>>>> expenses.
>>>> With the increase in health care insurance cost (11 percent) and
>>>> reduction
>>>> in pay (2 percent), 2018 was an horrific year financially for me. Don't
>>>> even
>>>> get me started on the rather steep rise in prescription drug costs.
>>>> Can you imagine how bad this will be for folks who have lots of work
>>>> expenses like plumbers or auto technicians? I suspect many working
>>>> folks
>>>> will be pushed into unemployment because it will be too expenseive to
>>>> stay
>>>> working.
>>>> Frank
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Bob Hachey via acb-chat <acb-chat@acblists.org>
>>>> Sent: Monday, January 7, 2019 8:04 AM
>>>> To: 'General discussion list for ACB members and friends where a wide
>>>> range
>>>> of topics from blindness to politics, issues of the day or whatever
>>>> comes
>>>> to
>>>> mind are welcome. This is a free form discussion list.'
>>>> <acb-chat@acblists.org>
>>>> Cc: Bob Hachey <bhachey@verizon.net>
>>>> Subject: Re: [acb-chat] just some food for thought
>>>>
>>>> Hi Frank,
>>>> I didn't know that the Republican tax cuts actualy raised taxes for
>>>> some.
>>>> Please explain how your tax burden increased by that substantial
>>>> amount.
>>>> Was it because investments you have made substantial gains in 2018? Is
>>>> it
>>>> possible that these tax policy changes were worse than I'd thought? One
>>>> thing is for sure, they have markendly increased our national debt. Our
>>>> taxes were reduced slightly.
>>>> We really do need to return to some of the fairer tax policies we had
>>>> before
>>>> the regan devolution.
>>>> Bob
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Frank Ventura via acb-chat [mailto:acb-chat@acblists.org]
>>>> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2019 2:28 AM
>>>> To: General discussion list for ACB members and friends where a wide
>>>> range
>>>> of topics from blindness to politics, issues of the day or whatever
>>>> comes
>>>> to
>>>> mind are welcome. This is a free form discussion list.
>>>> Cc: Frank Ventura
>>>> Subject: Re: [acb-chat] just some food for thought
>>>>
>>>> Hmm... lets see my 20188 tax burden will be $18k more than what I paid
>>>> in
>>>> 2017, even though my income was less. Well at least my accountant won't
>>>> have
>>>> so much work to do. RIP poor departed working class.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: William Grussenmeyer via acb-chat <acb-chat@acblists.org>
>>>> Sent: Sunday, January 6, 2019 6:20 PM
>>>> To: General discussion list for ACB members and friends where a wide
>>>> range
>>>> of topics from blindness to politics, issues of the day or whatever
>>>> comes
>>>> to
>>>> mind are welcome. This is a free form discussion list.
>>>> <acb-chat@acblistsorg>
>>>> Cc: William Grussenmeyer <wdg31415@gmail.com>
>>>> Subject: Re: [acb-chat] just some food for thought
>>>>
>>>> Trump is great, Helen. You just don't like him because he does not
>>>> want
>>>> to
>>>> give anyone a free handout.
>>>>
>>>>> On 1/6/19, Helen Murphy via acb-chat <acb-chat@acblists.org> wrote:
>>>>> WE HAVE A TOTAL MADMAN IN OFFICE, HE CARES OF NO ONE, WORKERS,
>>>>> DISABLED, THE ELDERLY, CHILDREN, MOTHERS WITH INFANTS, PLEASE WAKE ME
>>>>> UP WHEN THE NIGHTMARE IS ALL OVER , HE IS HURTING THE WORKING PERSON,
>>>>> AS WELL THE MANS JUST PURE EVIL,
>>>>>
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if we keep the Hispanics on the Mexican side of the continent? As far
as American citizens doing the labor in the fields, it's not a
question of being too lazy. It's a question of not earning enough to
afford to exist.
As a child, we would load up the old Hudson and head out to explore
our great state of Washington. In Central Washington, around Yakima,
I remember seeing long rows of what looked like large chicken hatches.
I asked my dad what sort of animals were kept there. "Human animals",
he told me. "Those are the shacks the laborers live in when they're
picking crops.
As a teenager, along with a bunch of school chums, I spent my summers
picking strawberries and beans and pie cherries. Back in 1952 through
1954, I tucked away enough to pay for my first year at college. Of
course back then college was close to free. Tuition for a quarter was
$50. Books ran about $3 or $4 each. I lived at home and spent ten
cents each way on the bus. On a good day I could earn about $12, and
seldom less than $8. Most of the farmers had trucks or buses that
would park early in the morning at the Sears parking lot. Many of the
men from Skid Road would show up, along with large numbers of migrant
workers. Usually the Skid Road men would pick one day and then be
gone for the next two or three days. The migrant workers showed up
every day. Some of them, mostly mothers who were hauling small
children along, could pick about $20 in a day. My best day ever was
$15. Beans paid 2.5 cents a pound. Strawberries paid by the
flat...but I've forgotten how much that was.
It was hard, dirty, hot work. But I was a teenager out with a crowd
of friends. The others were trying to earn enough to survive. They
were not young, and they were not having fun.
Over the years during which I worked in an office with a great number
of white collar folks, there was a tendency to "Put Down" manual
laborers. And among the government workers there was status snobbery.
Supervisors looked down on clerical, managers looked down on their
staffs, and Directors felt superior to everyone. I used to tell my
coworkers that our boss was the state legislature. And the
legislature, mostly self employed or doctors or professors, believed
that all state workers were slugs and whiners. From Director to
Janitor, we were all a blight on humanity.
My dad was fond of saying, "There is dignity in all labor". But we
live in a world whose bottom line is profit. So we screw down on
those beneath us in order to squeeze every extra red cent out of their
labor. We sneer at them and belittle them and tell them that they
made their own bed.
If we truly believe that some of us are superior to others and deserve
to be treated royally, then there is no answer to your question. But
if we believe that together we can assist one another to realize our
maximum potential, then we must take action.
First we need to come together and discuss our common outcomes, our
goals. Then we must discuss how to structure a government that will
support our goals. Then we must plan on the most effective way of
transforming our existing government. This would be nice and easy
except for one sticky little point. Those now in control do not have
any plans to turn over control.
Carl Jarvis
On 1/9/19, Jack Zimmerman via acb-chat <acb-chat@acblists.org> wrote:
> Here is a question I have asked many many times and no one has ever aniwered
> it to my satisfaction so I'll ask it on here.
> Who pray tell, just exactly who, do tell me? Is gonna do the jobs
> immigrants are willing to do, to make money to suppot their families to try
> and MAKE a better life for themselves? Who is gonnd do that work that
> american workers do not want to do or have become TO Lazy or uncarsh to
> do?? THE late John MacCain said something I really liked. And I am not his
> biggest fan but he said, America became great from pulling walls DOWN, not
> building them!
>
>
>
>
>
> Jack and Bex
> :-)
>
>
>
>
>> On Jan 8, 2019, at 4:28 PM, Carl Jarvis via acb-chat
>> <acb-chat@acblists.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Ray, and a special Hello to those Left Wing Mumbo Jumbos.
>> I've never been able to understand why some folks need to discredit
>> the opinions of others. I mean, like, did someone crown them God All
>> Mighty?
>> This goes back to my problem with labeling. We say, "mumbo jumbo" and
>> that labels what the other person says as stupid. If this is how some
>> folks like to be treated, just email me off-list and I'll fill your
>> quota of insults. But on this list we ought to treat others opinions
>> in the manner we want our opinions treated...we don't have to believe
>> them, but we can at least treat them with respect.
>> Ray wrote: "the steady influx of outsiders does nothing more than
>> weaken America."
>> Good comment, Ray. Do you know who first uttered those words? It was
>> Sitting Bull. And was he right! Old SB had been fighting for a wall
>> along the Eastern Seaboard. His fellow Chieftains argued that a few
>> foreigners would be okay for the Buffalo hunts and the smoking of the
>> tons of meat needed for survival over the long cold winters.
>> I think it's just Human Nature that gives us that, "Dog in the Manger"
>> attitude. We got this land and we're damned if we're gonna share.
>>
>> I was talking with Kicks a Hole in the Sky, and Everybody Talks About,
>> the other day outside their brand new Casino and Guest Hotel, right
>> next to their 18 hole golf course.
>> "Let the immigrants come on over," they told me. "You White folk
>> don't want to work, and you're undependable and always bitching about
>> wanting more money."
>> "You got some place to talk," I came back. "Look at all the garbage
>> you guys toss out your doors until it's higher than the houses".
>> "We're just protecting the land," they told me.
>> Damned uppity Indians, anyway!
>>
>> Carl Jarvis
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 1/8/19, Ray Williams via acb-chat <acb-chat@acblists.org> wrote:
>>> it would seem that the left wing mumbo jumbo holds sway here also.
>>> did anyone ever stop to think that he may just be correct in trying to
>>> do something about this countrys lax security? after all, the influx
>>> of central and south American people is in fact nothing more than a
>>> slow motion invasion. that is in fact the case no matter how uyoiu
>>> look at it. the steady influx of outsiders does nothing more than
>>> weaken America. and if that is not enough, the demos seem hell-bent
>>> on grabbing total power at any cost. they just don't care about you
>>> or me at all. they want power just for the sake of having power. in
>>> point of fact, they have nothing constructive to add at this point.
>>> all they want is to tear down what has been built at such high const
>>> by those who have gone before us---ray
>>>
>>>> On 1/8/19, Bob Hachey via acb-chat <acb-chat@acblists.org> wrote:
>>>> Hi Frank,
>>>> Thanks for sharing and I stand corrected. Somehow, I thought maybe it
>>>> was
>>>> the cap on state tax deductions that got you.
>>>> This elimination of deductible expenses will be very hard on many folks
>>>> as
>>>> you say and could hit many small businesses very hard if I'm
>>>> understanding
>>>> this stuff correctly. Trump and the Republicans promised to simplify
>>>> the
>>>> tax
>>>> code, but it llooks like they simply created a different set of winners
>>>> and
>>>> losers. This looks to be a more regressive tax code. Hey there,
>>>> Republicans,
>>>> thanks a heap!!!
>>>> Bob Hachey
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Frank Ventura via acb-chat [mailto:acb-chat@acblists.org]
>>>> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2019 8:00 PM
>>>> To: General discussion list for ACB members and friends where a wide
>>>> range
>>>> of topics from blindness to politics, issues of the day or whatever
>>>> comes
>>>> to
>>>> mind are welcome. This is a free form discussion list.
>>>> Cc: Frank Ventura
>>>> Subject: Re: [acb-chat] just some food for thought
>>>>
>>>> Bob, I have a great deal of out-of-pocket work related expenses that
>>>> are
>>>> not
>>>> reimbursed by my employer. In the past I have taken them as federal
>>>> deductions. According to my tax accountant, under the new code those
>>>> are
>>>> eliminated in lieu of an increased standard deduction which still is
>>>> considerably less than the deduction I was getting due to those
>>>> expenses.
>>>> With the increase in health care insurance cost (11 percent) and
>>>> reduction
>>>> in pay (2 percent), 2018 was an horrific year financially for me. Don't
>>>> even
>>>> get me started on the rather steep rise in prescription drug costs.
>>>> Can you imagine how bad this will be for folks who have lots of work
>>>> expenses like plumbers or auto technicians? I suspect many working
>>>> folks
>>>> will be pushed into unemployment because it will be too expenseive to
>>>> stay
>>>> working.
>>>> Frank
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Bob Hachey via acb-chat <acb-chat@acblists.org>
>>>> Sent: Monday, January 7, 2019 8:04 AM
>>>> To: 'General discussion list for ACB members and friends where a wide
>>>> range
>>>> of topics from blindness to politics, issues of the day or whatever
>>>> comes
>>>> to
>>>> mind are welcome. This is a free form discussion list.'
>>>> <acb-chat@acblists.org>
>>>> Cc: Bob Hachey <bhachey@verizon.net>
>>>> Subject: Re: [acb-chat] just some food for thought
>>>>
>>>> Hi Frank,
>>>> I didn't know that the Republican tax cuts actualy raised taxes for
>>>> some.
>>>> Please explain how your tax burden increased by that substantial
>>>> amount.
>>>> Was it because investments you have made substantial gains in 2018? Is
>>>> it
>>>> possible that these tax policy changes were worse than I'd thought? One
>>>> thing is for sure, they have markendly increased our national debt. Our
>>>> taxes were reduced slightly.
>>>> We really do need to return to some of the fairer tax policies we had
>>>> before
>>>> the regan devolution.
>>>> Bob
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Frank Ventura via acb-chat [mailto:acb-chat@acblists.org]
>>>> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2019 2:28 AM
>>>> To: General discussion list for ACB members and friends where a wide
>>>> range
>>>> of topics from blindness to politics, issues of the day or whatever
>>>> comes
>>>> to
>>>> mind are welcome. This is a free form discussion list.
>>>> Cc: Frank Ventura
>>>> Subject: Re: [acb-chat] just some food for thought
>>>>
>>>> Hmm... lets see my 20188 tax burden will be $18k more than what I paid
>>>> in
>>>> 2017, even though my income was less. Well at least my accountant won't
>>>> have
>>>> so much work to do. RIP poor departed working class.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: William Grussenmeyer via acb-chat <acb-chat@acblists.org>
>>>> Sent: Sunday, January 6, 2019 6:20 PM
>>>> To: General discussion list for ACB members and friends where a wide
>>>> range
>>>> of topics from blindness to politics, issues of the day or whatever
>>>> comes
>>>> to
>>>> mind are welcome. This is a free form discussion list.
>>>> <acb-chat@acblistsorg>
>>>> Cc: William Grussenmeyer <wdg31415@gmail.com>
>>>> Subject: Re: [acb-chat] just some food for thought
>>>>
>>>> Trump is great, Helen. You just don't like him because he does not
>>>> want
>>>> to
>>>> give anyone a free handout.
>>>>
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Friday, January 4, 2019
Fwd: [acb-chat] the daily worker
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Carl Jarvis via acb-chat <acb-chat@acblists.org>
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2019 16:20:27 +0000
Subject: [acb-chat] the daily worker
To: "General discussion list for ACB members and friends where a wide
range of topics from blindness to politics, issues of the day or
whatever comes to mind are welcome. This is a free form discussion
list." <acb-chat@acblists.org>
Cc: Carl Jarvis <carjar82@gmail.com>
Hi William,
A bit more regarding the source of the article I posted yesterday.
Article: This was published in the People's World. That is the
official newspaper of the Communist Party, USA and it is the direct
descendant of the Daily Worker.
During WW II, the Daily Worker was a fixture in my parent's home.
Also present were such other biased publications such as the Wall
Street Journal, Time Magazine, The Seattle Times, Psychology Today,
Reader's Digest, Humpty Dumpty, Ladies Home Companion, The Family
Circle, Good Housekeeping, and piles of library books on just about
anything. As a family, we spent much time reading and talking
together. We also had an old Army tent that we tossed in the trunk of
the 1938 Hudson, and headed out on camping trips around Washington,
Oregon and Idaho. We hiked, fished and roasted Smores. But during
the long Northwest rainy season, we spent lots of time at the public
library, checking out piles of books.
I'm a strong advocate for the NLS for the Blind and Physically
Handicapped. I'm always rocked back on my heels when, as a rehab
teacher, I push Talking Books to a newly blind client, and hear them
say, "I don't read".
As you know, I'm also an advocate for positive support groups. So
after getting over the news that a client does not read, I push
support groups, believing that in this way a newly blind person can
find answers to the many annoying problems that come with blindness.
As a totally blind man, for the past 54 years, I do my "reading" with
my JAWS and through Talking Books. But I tune in FOX News, NBC, ABC,
CBS and NPR from time to time in order to keep up on the strange
antics of our ruling Oligarchy...sorry, I slipped...
But my main sources for current events today are Thom Hartman,
Alternative Radio, Democracy Now, Dr. Richard Wolff, Chris Hedges and
other observers of social events.
While I am not now, nor have I ever been a member of the Communist
Party, or for that matter, of any Party other than the
Democrats...which I now disclaim, and for a long period of years a
member of the Protestant Faith...now abandoned. And I almost forgot
the most radical of all organizations, from 1969 to 1980 I was a very
active member of the National Federation of the Blind. After several
disagreements with Kenneth Jernigan, Washington and California were
kicked out of the NFB. Washington formed the United Blind of
Washington State, and for the next ten years operated independently.
In 1990 we merged with the Washington Council of the Blind, and the
ACB.
Again, while I am not a member of any political party at the present
time, I believe, with only limited reading, that Karl Marx is a Hell
of a lot smarter than most of the people who dump their anger and
hatred on his long dead head. Smearing is a lazy man's way out.
Our hope for our future is wrapped up in developing something called,
"Thinking". Thinking. however, needs food for thought. Reading
widely and listening carefully are the best sources of such food.
Cordially,
Carl Jarvis
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From: Carl Jarvis via acb-chat <acb-chat@acblists.org>
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2019 16:20:27 +0000
Subject: [acb-chat] the daily worker
To: "General discussion list for ACB members and friends where a wide
range of topics from blindness to politics, issues of the day or
whatever comes to mind are welcome. This is a free form discussion
list." <acb-chat@acblists.org>
Cc: Carl Jarvis <carjar82@gmail.com>
Hi William,
A bit more regarding the source of the article I posted yesterday.
Article: This was published in the People's World. That is the
official newspaper of the Communist Party, USA and it is the direct
descendant of the Daily Worker.
During WW II, the Daily Worker was a fixture in my parent's home.
Also present were such other biased publications such as the Wall
Street Journal, Time Magazine, The Seattle Times, Psychology Today,
Reader's Digest, Humpty Dumpty, Ladies Home Companion, The Family
Circle, Good Housekeeping, and piles of library books on just about
anything. As a family, we spent much time reading and talking
together. We also had an old Army tent that we tossed in the trunk of
the 1938 Hudson, and headed out on camping trips around Washington,
Oregon and Idaho. We hiked, fished and roasted Smores. But during
the long Northwest rainy season, we spent lots of time at the public
library, checking out piles of books.
I'm a strong advocate for the NLS for the Blind and Physically
Handicapped. I'm always rocked back on my heels when, as a rehab
teacher, I push Talking Books to a newly blind client, and hear them
say, "I don't read".
As you know, I'm also an advocate for positive support groups. So
after getting over the news that a client does not read, I push
support groups, believing that in this way a newly blind person can
find answers to the many annoying problems that come with blindness.
As a totally blind man, for the past 54 years, I do my "reading" with
my JAWS and through Talking Books. But I tune in FOX News, NBC, ABC,
CBS and NPR from time to time in order to keep up on the strange
antics of our ruling Oligarchy...sorry, I slipped...
But my main sources for current events today are Thom Hartman,
Alternative Radio, Democracy Now, Dr. Richard Wolff, Chris Hedges and
other observers of social events.
While I am not now, nor have I ever been a member of the Communist
Party, or for that matter, of any Party other than the
Democrats...which I now disclaim, and for a long period of years a
member of the Protestant Faith...now abandoned. And I almost forgot
the most radical of all organizations, from 1969 to 1980 I was a very
active member of the National Federation of the Blind. After several
disagreements with Kenneth Jernigan, Washington and California were
kicked out of the NFB. Washington formed the United Blind of
Washington State, and for the next ten years operated independently.
In 1990 we merged with the Washington Council of the Blind, and the
ACB.
Again, while I am not a member of any political party at the present
time, I believe, with only limited reading, that Karl Marx is a Hell
of a lot smarter than most of the people who dump their anger and
hatred on his long dead head. Smearing is a lazy man's way out.
Our hope for our future is wrapped up in developing something called,
"Thinking". Thinking. however, needs food for thought. Reading
widely and listening carefully are the best sources of such food.
Cordially,
Carl Jarvis
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