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SOCIOPATHIC OLIGARCH LLOYD BLANKFEIN
America’s reverence for the rich is now proving to be its undoing. Lloyd Blankfein–another one of the billionaires who say that Social Security must be cut–now tweet-belches his objection to coronavirus containment measures.
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NO ONE SHOULD BUY JOHN BOLTON’S BOOK
Simon and Schuster epitomizes the way that monopolistic corporate ownership has destroyed book publishing . S & S stood by and let Bolton refuse to present his first-hand evidence because he and they thought he should save it for his … Continue reading
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THE MEDIA IS AIDING AND ABETTING TRUMP
by continuing to broadcast his demented hate-therapy ravings, in which he actively promotes the proliferation of coronavirus via his lies and defamatory attacks on the media–always presented without any evidence, whatsoever, of course
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THIS IS THE LOGICAL CULMINATION OF THE REAGAN REVOLUTION
President Reagan convinced huge swaths of Americans living in a representative democracy that they were actually living in a police state and the government was their enemy. But his message to the wealthy was something entirely different–I empower you to … Continue reading
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FOX “NEWS” MUST FACE A DAY OF RECKONING
Note that what Zamyatin was referring to was literature–not journalism. There must be class actions against Fox “News” for actively promoting the spread of coronavirus in America.
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PRESCRIPTION (LITERARY)
“Real literature can exist only only when it is produced by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.” –Evgeny Zamyatin
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TRUMP IS GOING TO POLITICIZE & WEAPONIZE THIS BIGLY
The shameless demagogue accuses the press of “siding with China” when they kick about his racist insistence on calling Corona “Chinese.”
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TRUMP SCAPEGOATS THE MEDIA
The whining, blubbering, 73-year-old infant claims once again that the media’s been very unfair to “us”–meaning him. There is no “us” for Trump.But of course, on the other hand, he has thoroughly infected the entire administration with his madness and … Continue reading
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WE’VE SEEN THIS BEFORE
Trump annointing himself “war president” today reminds me of the way that the George W. Bush disaster squad ignored the Al-Quaeda threat all through 2001, then the minute the towers came down exploited the catastrophe to silence Democratic opposition, thus … Continue reading
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BIG PHARMA DEMANDS–AND RECEIVES–SOCIALIST SUBSIDY FROM AMERICAN TAXPAYERS
Robert Reich tweets: “Big Pharma got language in the coronavirus bill preventing government from limiting their profits on any future vaccines, even though many of the same drug companies are receiving funding from the government to combat the pandemic.” And … Continue reading
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