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The Sounds of Film
December 8, 2016Making America Great Again, Step by Hazardous Step:
December 6, 2016Step 16: Donald Trump has nominated retired Marine General James “Mad Dog” Mattis to be his Secretary of Defense. Originally known more accurately as the Department of War, it was rebranded as the euphemistic Department of Defense in1949. “Mad Dog” Mattis represents the rejection of civilian control of the military, and the move toward full command of the generals. Mattis declared that “It’s fun to shoot some people” in 2005, one year after he oversaw the flattening of Fallujah in Iraq, and the murder by US forces of 736 people, overwhelmingly women and children.
Step17: Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, sat in on a meeting between the Prime Minister of Japan and her dad while her clothing line was negotiating a licensing deal with a Japanese apparel giant whose largest shareholder is—wait for it!—a bank that is wholly owned by the government of Japan.
Step 18: Donald Trump continues to promote the idea—without a shred of evidence—that millions of votes were illegally cast in the recent national election, even as his own lawyers filed papers in federal court stating that “ all available evidence suggests the 2016 general election was not tainted by fraud or mistake.” Welcome to the fact-free, faith-based world of today.
Step 19: Hate crimes in New York directed against Muslims, Jews , and ethnic and racial minorities are spiking upward since the election—as much as 35% over the same period a year ago.
Step 20: Michael Flynn, tapped to be Trump’s national security adviser, makes things up and spreads fraud on Twitter. He claimed, for example, that Hillary Clinton ran a child sex trafficking ring out of Comet Ping Pong, a pizzeria in Washington. Edgar Welch, unhinged by the news, showed up at the restaurant with a rifle to investigate, fired a shot, and was arrested. One hopes Michael Flynn is called for the defense.
Book Tour: Up the Left Coast
December 5, 2016Book Tour: Up the Left Coast
December 5, 2016Standing with Standing Rock!! Victory!
December 4, 2016Today’s (12/3/16) NYT Crossword Puzzle, 5 letters, 47 Down:
December 3, 2016Making America Great Again, Step by Perilous Step:
November 30, 2016
Step 11: Donald Trump—with the active active buttressing of his enablers in the comatose capitalist “press”—offers up tweet after bizarre tweet (If you burn the American flag, goddammit, you should face consequences—“perhaps loss of citizenship”) sending the media into a frenzy of elaborate reporting, “deep thinking” about the constitution and sober commentary about settled law, while behind the curtain he and his crew work tirelessly to steal everything they can get their hands on, and erase any semblance of the common good or the public square. But, what the heck, let’s just talk about the flag.
Step 12: Donald Trump nominated Representative Tom Price of Georgia—fierce advocate of privatizing Medicare and slashing Medicaid, repealing Obamacare and relying strictly on “free market principles” in all aspects of health care and wellness—to the post of Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Step 13: In order to fulfill his promise to “drain the swamp,” Donald Trump is offering donors a dazzling menu of options: for a million dollars (or more) you can get four tickets to an “intimate dinner” with the vice-president elect and his wife, and eight tickets to a “ladies luncheon” with the “women of the first family,” among other perks; for half a million (or more) you can get four tickets to the “ladies luncheon” plus more.
Step 14: Steven Mnuchin, Donald Trump’s campaign finance chief and a former partner at Goldman Sachs, will become the newTreasury Secretary, further “draining the swamp.”
Step 15: “Draining the swamp” continues with the selection of Elaine L. Chao—Washington insider, Republican functionary, and the wife of the Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell—was selected to be the new Transportation Secretary.
Fidel on the Environment
November 27, 2016From a high school classmate of our kids…
November 27, 2016Watch “Karim Sulayman – I trust you” on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/193125533?ref=em-v-share
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