Environment => Catastrophic Climate Change => Topic started by: AGelbert on May 07, 2019, 10:31:39 pm
Title: U.S. History & Politics, Climate Change, Trump Impeachment & Standing Rock: CONTEXT
Post by: AGelbert on May 07, 2019, 10:31:39 pm
Agelbert NOTE: This is the syllabus for Daniel Sheehan's UCSC course titled "The Trajectory of Justice in America: 2019". It covers a series of heinous events in American History that you may have never heard about, but which you need to know about, particulary now (this is not an idle academic exercise - your life and that of your offspring depend on obtaining this knowledge and using it effectively).
You will learn of the mindboggling level of corruption in U.S. government that consistently causes it to plan, execute and defend totally undemocratic, unethical, polluting and murderous policies that now threaten our very survival as a species. This is not hyperbole.
It may come as a surprise for you, but this 5 credit hour course makes the case that the MAIN reason that Donald Trump must be impeached AND removed from the White House is his ecocidal, polluter defending policies.
The Democrats are not given any praise here either. Hillary Clinton's policy plans for dealing with climate change were, like Obama's, in the right direction, but still inadequate to avoid Catastrophic Climate Change.
The syllabus has lots of links. I didn't copy them. Just go to the link at the bottom of the syllabus for complete access.
I have posted the first lecture after the syllabus. View 👀 as many lectures as you can. Your life and that of those you love most likely depends on it. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418202709.png&hash=7503265ec59e4c28d735afb762bc39f4674bd838)
– Videos Online Now – Click on each week’s title to see videos, descriptions and resources.
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THE INDIGENOUS UPRISING AT STANDING ROCK; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE & THE POTENTIAL UPCOMING IMPEACHMENT OF DONALD TRUMP IN A PROGRESSIVE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
UCSC Spring Quarter, 2019
Lectures: T-Th. 3:20—4:55 PM; Stevenson Academy Room 175
I. COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is a 5 credit spring quarter class providing undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to become experts on the specifics of the science and U.S. politics of climate change, the ongoing process of the potential impeachment of Donald J. Trump, and the Standing Rock Movement against the Dakota Access pipeline, with special emphasis on the role of private military security company Tiger Swan and the legal defense of former congressional candidate and Standing Rock tribal member Chase Iron Eyes.
II. INTRODUCTION WEEK 1: COURSE OVERVIEW WEEK 2: CLIMATE SCIENCE WEEK 3: CLIMATE POLITICS WEEK 4: THE POTENTIAL IMPEACHMENT OF DONALD TRUMP WEEK 5: THE CONTEXT FOR THE POTENTIAL IMPEACHMENT OF DONALD TRUMP WEEK 6: NON-IMPEACHMENT PRECEDENTS WEEK 7 : STANDING ROCK AS A MICROCOSM OF THE CLIMATE CHANGE DEBATE WEEK 8: STANDING ROCK AS A MICROCOSM OF THE CLIMATE CHANGE DEBATE CONT’D. WEEK 9 WEEK 10 https://danielpsheehan.com/tja2019/
Global Climate Change, Standing Rock & Donald Trump: Daniel Sheehan 2019 Class #1
https://youtu.be/UUfOPwUUeas
Romero Institute
Published on Apr 3, 2019
Welcome to Daniel Sheehan's 5th UCSC course, The Trajectory of Justice in America, in the spring quarter of 2019. The intro lecture looks at the interrelation of the three components of the course.
Learn more at https://danielpsheehan.com/tja2019/
Donate to help us keep cranking out high quality media (and get more batteries so the good audio doesn't drop out...): https://romeroinstitute.org/donate
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Title: U.S. History & Politics, Climate Change, Trump Impeachment & Standing Rock: CONTEXT
Post by: AGelbert on May 07, 2019, 10:42:43 pm
Agelbert NOTE: This is the syllabus for Daniel Sheehan's UCSC course titled "The Trajectory of Justice in America: 2019". It covers a series of heinous events in American History that you may have never heard about, but which you need to know about, particulary now (this is not an idle academic exercise - your life and that of your offspring depend on obtaining this knowledge and using it effectively).
You will learn of the mindboggling level of corruption in U.S. government that consistently causes it to plan, execute and defend totally undemocratic, unethical, polluting and murderous policies that now threaten our very survival as a species. This is not hyperbole.
It may come as a surprise for you, but this 5 credit hour course makes the case that the MAIN reason that Donald Trump must be impeached AND removed from the White House is his ecocidal, polluter defending policies.
The Democrats are not given any praise here either. Hillary Clinton's policy plans for dealing with climate change were, like Obama's, in the right direction, but still inadequate to avoid Catastrophic Climate Change.
The syllabus has lots of links. I didn't copy them. Just go to the link at the bottom of the syllabus for complete access.
I have posted the first lecture after the syllabus. View 👀 as many lectures as you can. Your life and that of those you love most likely depends on it. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418202709.png&hash=7503265ec59e4c28d735afb762bc39f4674bd838)
– Videos Online Now – Click on each week’s title to see videos, descriptions and resources.
Donate to Daniel Sheehan and the Romero Institute: Click Here
THE INDIGENOUS UPRISING AT STANDING ROCK; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE & THE POTENTIAL UPCOMING IMPEACHMENT OF DONALD TRUMP IN A PROGRESSIVE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
UCSC Spring Quarter, 2019
Lectures: T-Th. 3:20—4:55 PM; Stevenson Academy Room 175
I. COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is a 5 credit spring quarter class providing undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to become experts on the specifics of the science and U.S. politics of climate change, the ongoing process of the potential impeachment of Donald J. Trump, and the Standing Rock Movement against the Dakota Access pipeline, with special emphasis on the role of private military security company Tiger Swan and the legal defense of former congressional candidate and Standing Rock tribal member Chase Iron Eyes.
II. INTRODUCTION WEEK 1: COURSE OVERVIEW WEEK 2: CLIMATE SCIENCE WEEK 3: CLIMATE POLITICS WEEK 4: THE POTENTIAL IMPEACHMENT OF DONALD TRUMP WEEK 5: THE CONTEXT FOR THE POTENTIAL IMPEACHMENT OF DONALD TRUMP WEEK 6: NON-IMPEACHMENT PRECEDENTS WEEK 7 : STANDING ROCK AS A MICROCOSM OF THE CLIMATE CHANGE DEBATE WEEK 8: STANDING ROCK AS A MICROCOSM OF THE CLIMATE CHANGE DEBATE CONT’D. WEEK 9 WEEK 10 https://danielpsheehan.com/tja2019/
Global Climate Change, Standing Rock & Donald Trump: Daniel Sheehan 2019 Class #1
https://youtu.be/UUfOPwUUeas
Romero Institute
Published on Apr 3, 2019
Welcome to Daniel Sheehan's 5th UCSC course, The Trajectory of Justice in America, in the spring quarter of 2019. The intro lecture looks at the interrelation of the three components of the course.
Learn more at https://danielpsheehan.com/tja2019/
Donate to help us keep cranking out high quality media (and get more batteries so the good audio doesn't drop out...): https://romeroinstitute.org/donate
From Desert Storm to Donald Trump: Daniel Sheehan 2019 Class #2
https://youtu.be/6t4fkW9hhhA
Romero Institute Published on Apr 5, 2019
Online syllabus and materials can be found at: https://danielpsheehan.com/tja2019
PBS NewsHour/FRONTLINE special: https://www.pbs.org/video/special-report-full-doc-1553565292/ Donate to the Romero Institute: https://romeroinstitute.org/donate
Title: Re: U.S. History & Politics, Climate Change, Trump Impeachment & Standing Rock: CONTEXT
Post by: Surly1 on May 08, 2019, 06:27:03 am
What a great find.
I was not aware of the Romero Institute. I wondered if it were named for the murdered cleric, and checked to see. It is.
Even though Romero didn’t openly embrace the movement, his defense of the poor and criticisms of the Salvadoran government dovetailed with liberation theology’s aims. He was murdered the day after he told a peasant army the they were murdering their brethren.
A little known fact about Romero is that he had ties to Opus Dei. Don't know what to make of that.
When I read about Romero and other martyr priests that saw against the Vatican tide, I am reminded of the words of Dom Helder Camara:
“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
Title: Re: U.S. History & Politics, Climate Change, Trump Impeachment & Standing Rock: CONTEXT
Post by: AGelbert on May 08, 2019, 12:21:16 pm
I was not aware of the Romero Institute. I wondered if it were named for the murdered cleric, and checked to see. It is.
Even though Romero didn’t openly embrace the movement, his defense of the poor and criticisms of the Salvadoran government dovetailed with liberation theology’s aims. He was murdered the day after he told a peasant army the they were murdering their brethren.
A little known fact about Romero is that he had ties to Opus Dei. Don't know what to make of that.
When I read about Romero and other martyr priests that saw against the Vatican tide, I am reminded of the words of 🕊 Dom Helder Camara:
“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
Thank you. I completely had missed the Romero reference! My cousin Raul Julia did a movie starring as that famous Bishop Romero that got got killed for advocating for justice and the defense of the poor and downtrodden.
Raulito, as he was known in the family, had always been an "Independentista" in Puerto Rico. The Independentista Political Party in Puerto rico is 100% Socialist.
Sure, he made lots of money in Hollywood, but he was a Socialist through and through and donated large sums of money throughtout his life for socialist causes.
That said, Raulito was no saint. He liked to fool around way too much without thinking through the downstream sibling strife effect of "extra" children fathered by him, as the strife among the offspring he left behind from different women now evidences.
I had a friend down in Puerto Rico that educated me about Opus Dei. His father, an erudite man of color, was a staunch Catholic and wanted to become a member of Opus Dei. They refused to accept him because he was born out of wedlock (no "bastards" allowed in the holier than thou Opus Dei, don'tcha know?).
I don't know what Bishop Romero's connection to Opus Dei, a fascist/elitist organisation to the core, was. However, he may have become a member in his youth, not knowing the full deal there, and just never bothered to reisgn, hoping to work within to reform them.
The name, "Opus Dei" (Latin for "The Work of God"), is, in practice, an Orwellian title. I can see how a young, idealistic man who took the "Opus Dei" label at face value would be attracted to them.
Opus Dei is now known by its rotten fruit. I'm sure Bishop Romero figured that out early on.
I am looking forward to watching the full series of videos in this USCS course ✨, and will continue to post them here in chronological order.
For those readers who do not know Surly's background, he is a walking multi-volume source of accurate American History and Politics. He can discuss virtually any subject with considerable erudition and has far more patience than I do when engaging confrontational posters.
So, for those reading this that don't want to talk to me, feel free to register and comment on Surly's posts. He will respect your arguments, even if he disagrees with them. IMHO, you need to bring a very large sandwich if you plan to win a debate with him, but I am sure you will be the better for it if you DO engage him. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-141113185701.png&hash=615e3c1aa9c374cb1eab5bfc1e9494f2cb05e9f7)
Title: Re: U.S. History & Politics, Climate Change, Trump Impeachment & Standing Rock: CONTEXT
Post by: AGelbert on May 08, 2019, 01:47:28 pm
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Climate Change Facts with Dr. Jon Conway: Daniel Sheehan 2019 Class #3
https://youtu.be/RHlCYn5egRA
RRomero Institute Published on Apr 10, 2019
Online syllabus and materials can be found at: https://danielpsheehan.com/tja2019
Link to Jon's Powerpoint Presentation (https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Rn97wIp1jyQglhAo_P2271pGw6xy0avxbVT0J49oHyM/edit#slide=id.g50f7f3efaf_0_0)
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The Fossil Fuelers 🦖 DID THE Clean Energy Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME, but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID DOING THE TIME or PAYING THE FINE! Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!
Title: Re: U.S. History & Politics, Climate Change, Trump Impeachment & Standing Rock: CONTEXT
Post by: Anthony1 on May 08, 2019, 05:58:50 pm
As Mark Twain (i.e. Samuel Clemens) might say ;), this is a great Forum with a lot of valuable information. There is no Planet B. If we lose this fight with the Trumpoids, we are toast.
Title: Re: U.S. History & Politics, Climate Change, Trump Impeachment & Standing Rock: CONTEXT
Post by: AGelbert on May 08, 2019, 06:40:06 pm
As Mark Twain (i.e. Samuel Clemens) might say ;), this is a great Forum with a lot of valuable information. There is no Planet B. If we lose this fight with the Trumpoids, we are toast.
(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-060518153110.png&hash=39d587c31b7f7e66b30d7e59bb560e2ad0662eee) Thank you sir, for your irrefutable insight on the dire situation humanity finds itself in and the importance of our efforts on this Forum. Mark Twain knew what he was doing. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-141113185047.png&hash=384024358ff8d5e7133d19b6e6638da4584a8154)
Title: Environmental Impacts of Climate Change with Dr. Jon Conway: TJA 2019 Class #4
Post by: AGelbert on May 09, 2019, 07:25:08 pm
IPCC RCP 8.5 'Business as Usual' (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418203402.gif&hash=b2691028ba683a0039a5811f5775c68d7ccae01c)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418193910.gif&hash=633dd399cd6006279afd7efb5ef953673b96bd78)(https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F2%2F3-190419232147.png&hash=b9d818543137cfd7ac4b712c1c25fe3b94b6d174) scenario is too conservative. ALL the climate models low ball global warming. (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818180835-16181943.gif&hash=0b93e71ee5e24bbe02555e0d648a1283e0e9651d)
Environmental Impacts of Climate Change with Dr. Jon Conway: TJA 2019 Class #4
https://youtu.be/I8Gr8weDDzE
RRomero Institute Published on Apr 13, 2019
Online syllabus and materials can be found at: https://danielpsheehan.com/tja2019
Link to Jon's Powerpoint Presentation (https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Rn97wIp1jyQglhAo_P2271pGw6xy0avxbVT0J49oHyM/edit#slide=id.g50f7f3efaf_0_0)
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The Fossil Fuelers 🦖 DID THE Clean Energy Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME, but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID DOING THE TIME or PAYING THE FINE! Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!
Title: Robber Barons, Oil, and Power from 1860 - Today: Daniel Sheehan 2019 Class #5
Post by: AGelbert on May 10, 2019, 02:54:52 pm
Agelbert NOTE: If you accurately digest the irrefutable American History taught in this video (that, quite deliberately, is NOT taught in High School History courses) which exposes the Hamiltonian Elitist CORRUPTION of U.S. Government policies, you will have a clear understanding of why Capitalist Profit Over People and Planet is the default U.S. government (foreign AND domestic) Bankster policy. At the founding of the USA, the Hamiltonians (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-130418193910.gif&hash=633dd399cd6006279afd7efb5ef953673b96bd78) (also known as the Federalists i.e. Banksters/Big Oil/Monopolies/Robber Barons/etc.) were the ones who made sure even the landed white men could NOT vote for POTUS (landed white men could vote for a member of the Electoral College 💵🎩 (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-120818184306-16302042.png&hash=b32964f6121cd80269354273700cf61fabc97dae) of elitists, who would then select the POTUS) or Senators.
The Madisonians (also known as the Intuitionists, Anti-Federalsts, Democratic Republicans or Jeffersonians), against the will of the Hamiltonians, got the Bill of Rights into the Constitution. The Hamiltonians were the ones who wanted to kill off all the Native Americans ("Manifest Destiny" murderous arrogance), take their land and "develop" it for the "invisible hand" of 😈 Capitalism.
The Intuitionists vociferously disagreed. The Intuitionists had great ideas but they weren't saints. They became the bulk of the Democratic Republicans from the Southern States that ignored the "inalienable human rights" they championed when it came to African Americans. 😠
The Hamiltonians didn't like slavery simply because, being utilitarian empathy deficit disordered bean counting Capitalists to the core, they much preferred employing somebody for peanuts and not having to house or feed them, while, OF COURSE, making sure the Laws of the Land gave businesses no liability for damages suffered by the workers or for pollution damage to the environment (See: "Corporate Limited Liability" Hamiltonian SCAM). So, the Hamiltonians made lots of noises about the "evils" of slavery and pushed for "NO SLAVERY" conditions for new states after all the "savages" had been cleared for Capitalism.
As you can surmise, slavery was a point of contention between the Federalists/Hamiltonians and Intuitionists/Democratic Republicans 💵 business models (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smilies.4-user.de%2Finclude%2FSpiele%2Fsmilie_game_017.gif&hash=e8548890f80af23241a1d43a1ab1ca8031301f20), NOT because either of the two groups actually cared about the ethical treatment of African Americans!
The slavery issue was joined at the business model hip with the Southern States. The Federalists sought to fight that by, in addition to the frequent publishing of the "Slavery is Evil but killing Native Americans is God's Work" duplicitous rhetoric, weakening the power of Southern States with new "non-slavery" States AND increasing Corporate Banking power through Legal Tender Laws and Fractional Reserve Banking, all backed by the power of the increasingly powerful Federal Government.
The Southern States were not amused.
So, the tension between the two "business models" blew up with the Civil War. Slavery, only in the "business model" context, not in the "abuse of humans" context, was the cause of the Civil War, as evidenced by the fact that the Emancipation Proclamation came AFTER the Civil War had started.
Lincoln, before the Civil War, was in no hurry to end slavery, even though he was against it. The Emancipation Proclamation was a successful tactic to get African Americans in the South to NOT fight for the Confederate cause or help them in any way. It worked to help defeat the Confederates. 👍
The "States' Rights" issue is a giant bag of rhetorical worms (negative AND positive) that I won't go into, but keep in mind that the Intuitionists championed States' Rights in the Constitution (Powers not enumerated belong to the people), which was a good thing. 👍 The fact that the Democratic Republicans used that to defend slavery is a misapplication of a great legal human rights principle. It should not keep us, in the present, from using this tenet to fight ☠️ oligarchic, elitist Bankster power the Hamiltonians have ALWAYS been all about. If they are not removed from power VERY, VERY SOON, we are all dead.
The Fossil Fuelers 🦖 DID THE Clean Energy Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME, but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID DOING THE TIME or PAYING THE FINE! Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!
Title: Locked thread is NOW unlocked 🐸
Post by: AGelbert on May 11, 2019, 04:45:42 pm
This topic is unlocked, and will continue to be unlocked, every single time some 🦕🦖 Hydrocarbon Hellspawn 😈 TOOL drops in and locks it. Have a nice day.
What Mueller Missed — The Narrative No One Is Talking About: Daniel Sheehan 2019 Class #7
https://youtu.be/CcCjrNiRjdo
Romero Institute Published on Apr 24, 2019
Online syllabus and materials can be found at: https://danielpsheehan.com/tja2019
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Agelbert NOTE: (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-210818163123-1664600.png&hash=d609f7e4847e25e034ca7c7b11e75234ba2a0afd) Russia and the US Trump Big Oil Wrecking Crew MADE A DEAL (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817135149.gif&hash=b4a8748d7cf56a31dd0a6aae5828ed2c1ac2815c) in the Mayflower Hotel (that 😈 Mueller REFUSED TO MENTION IN HIS REPORT) that involves making GIANT OIL & GAS PROFITS after the MELTING OF THE NORTH POLAR ICE CAP! (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Fc6492e4b47cfdbd50e74d285fde3c53e%2Ftumblr_inline_mm3g4yCaZc1qz4rgp.gif&hash=4b1cad5ea13f7430a0c01f3065039d21d78da398) That's right, they want to ACCELERATE CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE!
Trump (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-270117175421.png&hash=cf39e823dd9156833bfa885808a876bf518bd0d6) does not give a CRAP about anyone but the oligarchs. His tax "reform" proves that beyond a shadow of a doubt, but putting the hydrocarbon peddle to the metal is an existential threat to ALL humanity!
The Fossil Fuelers 🦖 DID THE Clean Energy Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME, but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID DOING THE TIME or PAYING THE FINE! Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!
Title: Precedent for Impeachment – Burying the True Crime: Daniel Sheehan 2019 Class #8
Post by: AGelbert on May 14, 2019, 09:55:59 pm
Agelbert NOTE: For the meat of the matter, go to the 20:00 mark on the video.
Impeachment and Censorship (Mild Explicit Language (https://renewablerevolution.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-080515182559.png&hash=d4dfa952fa0f817bf30a8059a4c88d6fb05ee1bf)): Daniel Sheehan 2019 Class #10
https://youtu.be/1EqVgRSUrsw
Romero Institute Published on May 7, 2019
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Title: The Third Reich Did Not Die; It Moved To the USA
Post by: AGelbert on May 21, 2019, 08:17:39 pm
Agelbert NOTE: In the above video, Daniel Sheehan covers some background on the routine corruption in U.S. politics. That may be old news to you, but you will learn that the amount of political corruption prosecuted is inversely proportional to the crime. IOW, they NEVER prosecute the really big crimes. >:(
This stuff is DYNAMITE that needs to get out there before those videos disappear. The videos (probably) aren't 'gone' yet because the university law course format looks so boring that they have not gotten much attention. Please watch, at least the above video, in the series and pass it on to friends and family. Take advantage of this window of opportunity while you can. I guarantee you that window will close soon.
Daniel Sheehan states, with irrefutable proof, that the Brown Brothers Harriman group of 50 oligarchic Fascist Big Dogs got going WAY BACK in the early 20th century.
THEY were the ones who got the guy, who basically had ALL the presidential power in 1917 (Woodrow Wilson was incapacitated by a stroke), to order American Troops to invade Russia and try to help the "white" Russians put the Socialist Revolution down.
THEY were the ones who orchestrated the attempted coup against Roosevelt in 1932.
THEY were the ones who, despite Smedley's information detailing the treason there, were let go with a slap on the wrist and told to "be nice, and don't do it again" by Congress.
THEY were the ones who FUNDED the rise of Hitler and the Third Reich War Machine (to stop the "Bolshevicks").
THEY were the ones who kept the Prescott Bush NAZI from being prosecuted, but rewarded instead! The Dulles NAZI brothers have a history going back to their Robber Baron Granpappy (Foster) in 1893, who trained his Dulles grandsons on how to be good Fascists.
THEY were the ones who worked Operation Paper Clip (which had a LOT more NAZIs brought over and protected than just rocket scientists) and THEY were the ones who built the CIA into the NAZI cancer eating this country alive.
But the point Sheehan is making, and I agree, is that these CIA Fascists are still in power and stronger than ever.
THEY were the ones who used (and STILL USE) drug money to destroy the political campaigns (and careers) of all the prinicipled politicians on the Church Committee. The CIA GOT REVENGE, they did not get "controlled", as the happy talk history claims.
THEY were the ones who self financed then (starting with Viet Nam), AND NOW, all their fascist political mayhem with drug money.
This goes WAY BEYOND the Bush treasonous bastards, but they certainly are in it up to their eyeballs.
Title: Dangers, Opportunities, and Origins of a Constitutional Crisis
Post by: AGelbert on June 10, 2019, 07:07:49 pm
To Impeach or Not to Impeach - Gathering Our Thoughts: Daniel Sheehan 2019 Class #13
https://youtu.be/xeQIIo7UXbQ
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Published on May 16, 2019
A discussion of student's paper ideas for their upcoming assignment. A great way to dig further into lines of reasoning and investigation and get to the substance of various arguments. Follow along and submit your own paper! (I'm not sure how long comments can be, but I've seen some pretty long ones...) Online syllabus and materials can be found at: https://danielpsheehan.com/tja2019
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Title: Gaming the system for profit over people, particu;arly indigenous people, and planet.
Post by: AGelbert on June 22, 2019, 05:33:17 pm
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"As I tell my Syracuse University College of Law students, anti-corruption laws can end up fostering corruption because every legal sword can be fashioned into a legal shield." -- David Cay Johnston
The Oil Pipeline Lawyers for the North Dakota 🦕🦖 Hydrocarbon Hellspawn made sure to limit oil pipeline laying requests to only 499 feet of pipe at a time to the gooberment. That is because these clever bastards found that, for requests below 500 ft of oil pipeline, you do not have to submit an environmental impact statement. So, they just keep laying that pipeline, 499 feet at a time. You just cannot make this stuff up.
Daniel Sheehan took them to court but they are still gaming the system for profit over people, particularly indigenous people, and planet.
Title: The Unimaginable Reality of American Concentration Camps
Post by: Surly1 on June 23, 2019, 07:27:03 am
The ever-reliable Masha Gessen gets to work on the real Children of Men situation happing in the FSoA and the attempts of the right wing language police to obfuscate the truth.
The Unimaginable Reality of American Concentration Camps (https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-unimaginable-reality-of-american-concentration-camps)
By Masha Gessen
(https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5d0d398d6a071421b45d79e7/master/w_1298,c_limit/Gessen-ConcentrationCamps.jpg) The debate over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s use of the term “concentration camp” is not about language or facts. It is about how we perceive history, ourselves, and ourselves in history.Photograph by Jose Luis Gonzalez / Reuters
Like many arguments, the fight over the term “concentration camp” is mostly an argument about something entirely different. It is not about terminology. Almost refreshingly, it is not an argument about facts. This argument is about imagination, and it may be a deeper, more important conversation than it seems.
In a Monday-evening live stream, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, of New York, called the U.S.’s detention facilities for migrants “concentration camps.” On Tuesday, she tweeted a link to an article in Esquire in which Andrea Pitzer, a historian of concentration camps, was quoted making the same assertion: that the United States has created a “concentration camp system.” Pitzer argued that “mass detention of civilians without a trial” was what made the camps concentration camps. The full text of Ocasio-Cortez’s tweet was “This administration has established concentration camps on the southern border of the United States for immigrants, where they are being brutalized with dehumanizing conditions and dying. This is not hyperbole. It is the conclusion of expert analysis.” Hackles were immediately raised, tweets fired, and, less than an hour and a half later, Representative Liz Cheney, of Wyoming, tweeted, “Please @AOC do us all a favor and spend just a few minutes learning some actual history. 6 million Jews were exterminated in the Holocaust. You demean their memory and disgrace yourself with comments like this.” A high-pitched battle of tweets and op-eds took off down the much travelled dead-end road of arguments about historical analogies. These almost never go well, and they always devolve into a virtual shouting match if the Holocaust, the Nazis, or Adolf Hitler is invoked. One side always argues that nothing can be as bad as the Holocaust, therefore nothing can be compared to it; the other argues that the cautionary lesson of history can be learned only by acknowledging the similarities between now and then.
But the argument is really about how we perceive history, ourselves, and ourselves in history. We learn to think of history as something that has already happened, to other people. Our own moment, filled as it is with minutiae destined to be forgotten, always looks smaller in comparison. As for history, the greater the event, the more mythologized it becomes. Despite our best intentions, the myth becomes a caricature of sorts. Hitler, or Stalin, comes to look like a two-dimensional villain—someone whom contemporaries could not have seen as a human being. The Holocaust, or the Gulag, are such monstrous events that the very idea of rendering them in any sort of gray scale seems monstrous, too. This has the effect of making them, essentially, unimaginable. In crafting the story of something that should never have been allowed to happen, we forge the story of something that couldn’t possibly have happened. Or, to use a phrase only slightly out of context, something that can’t happen here.
A logical fallacy becomes inevitable. If this can’t happen, then the thing that ishappening is not it. What we see in real life, or at least on television, can’t possibly be the same monstrous phenomenon that we have collectively decided is unimaginable. I have had many conversations about this in Russia. People who know Vladimir Putin and his inner circle have often told me that they are not the monsters that I and others have described. Yes, they have overseen assassinations, imprisonments, and wars, but they are not thoroughly terrible, my interlocutors have claimed—they are not like Stalin and his henchmen. In other words, they are not the monsters of our collective historical imagination. They are today’s flesh-and-blood monsters, and this makes them seem somehow less monstrous.
Anything that happens here and now is normalized, not solely through the moral failure of contemporaries but simply by virtue of actually existing. Allow me to illustrate. My oldest son, who spent his early childhood in a Russian hospital, was for many years extremely small for his age. I spent useless hours upon hours in my study in Moscow, where we then lived, poring over C.D.C. growth charts. No matter how many times I looked, I couldn’t place him—he was literally off the chart. As far as the C.D.C. was concerned, my son, at his age, height, and weight, was unimaginable. When he was four, I took him to see a pediatrician in Boston. She entered his measurements into her computer, and a red dot appeared on the chart. I felt my body finally relax; my child was no longer impossible! He was on the chart. Then I realized that the pediatrician was working with an interactive chart. (This was in the early aughts, and there weren’t any available to me at home.) She had just put him in the system. His little red dot was still below the lowest, fifth-percentile curve. He was still the smallest child of his age. But a sort of cognitive trick had been performed. My son’s size had been documented, and this made him possible.
Donald Trump has played this trick on Americans many times, beginning with his very election: first, he was impossible, and then he was President. Did that mean that the impossible had happened—an extremely hard concept to absorb—or did it mean that Trump was not the catastrophe so many of us had assumed he would be? A great many Americans chose to think that he had been secretly Presidential all along or was about to become Presidential; they chose to accept that, now that he was elected, his Presidency would become conceivable. The choice between these two positions is at the root of the argument between Ocasio-Cortez and the critics of her concentration-camp comment. It is not an argument about language. Ocasio-Cortez and her opponents agree that the term “concentration camp” refers to something so horrible as to be unimaginable. (For this reason, mounting a defense of Ocasio-Cortez’s position by explaining that not all concentration camps were death camps misses the point.) It is the choice between thinking that whatever is happening in reality is, by definition, acceptable, and thinking that some actual events in our current reality are fundamentally incompatible with our concept of ourselves—not just as Americans but as human beings—and therefore unimaginable. The latter position is immeasurably more difficult to hold—not so much because it is contentious and politically risky, as attacks on Ocasio-Cortez continue to demonstrate, but because it is cognitively strenuous. It makes one’s brain implode. It will always be a minority position.