Posted on 05/14/2017 8:25:06 PM PDT by Lorianne
I had the privilege of interviewing my newest personal hero yesterday, attorney Elizabeth Lee Beck, about her legal teams fraud case against the Democratic National Committee. One of the many useful insights that this straight-shooting mom on fire brought to light during our conversation was her story about a time she reached out to New York Times reporter Michael Barbaro to get some help cracking through the deep, dark media blackout on this extremely important case. Barbaro had previously interviewed Beck and featured her in a front-page story not long ago, so she had every reason to try and contact him. What happened next?
Why is a journalist for the New York Times blocking a potential source from contacting him? Why is the mainstream media refusing to go anywhere near a legal case that has heavy implications for the future of American democracy? You already know the answer to this deep down, whether youre the kind of person who turns and faces reality or the kind of person who dissociates from reality at all costs while watching Samantha Bee and chugging cough syrup on the sofa. The function of the mass media is not to inform the American public of important things that are happening in their country, it is to turn attention away from the important things that are happening in their country and to keep them sleepy and compliant. The DNC lawsuit is one of the greatest threats to Americas power establishment right now, but only if people know about it. If the corporate media were to advance this story with even a fraction of the intensity that theyre advancing their xenophobic anti-Russia nonsense, theyd start waking up the sleeping masses to the fact that there is nothing resembling democracy happening in America at all.
And the DNCs own lawyers have indeed made it abundantly clear to anyone whos been listening that there is no democracy in America. You cannot make the case that you are not required to provide real primary elections in a rigidly-enforced two-party system and still say that democracy is happening to any extent within your nation. Being forced to choose between two establishment-selected corporatists is not democracy, and this revolutionary lawsuit has been showing in no uncertain terms that this is exactly what is happening both in practice and in theory. In order to say that there is any sort of democratic process in America at all, there would have to either be a way to run viable independent and third-party candidates, or the people would have to be able to determine who the candidates will be for the two parties that they are permitted to choose from. Currently neither of those things is happening.
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And, who knows, maybe alt media will pick up the story.
The chance of a nuclear war/confrontation is zero.
The nuclear war boogieman is a Lyndon LaRouche cult talking point/fantasy to gin up hysteria intended to help Putin obtain his objectives.
DU degraded into a Hillary cult in 2016 after Sanders started to gain traction and threatened to derail her campaign.
If I understand the way they think it goes something like this:
“Conspiracy theorists are crazy people.”
“Trump and his gang are engaged in a conspiracy to turn the country into the Fourth Reich.”
“Therefore I am a crazy person.”
;-)
Bol!
The incredibly long period of time it takes for these cases to wend their way through the court system is part of the injustice.
Nothing in the three long paragraphs tells us very much about the issue. Why can’t writers state in 25 words what the headline is all about? Specifics.
This article is a mixed bag. Well, it would be - its a pro-Sanders (IOW, socialist) screed. Its discussion of the press is spot on: Contrary to what they would have us all believe, these corporate media giants are not the press. They are a part of the press, and enjoy First Amendment protections for that reason, but they are not the press. The press also includes smaller outlets, alternative media, and all the bloggers and Youtubers who produce infinitely superior news coverage to anything the mass media propaganda machine is cranking out, yet are forbidden to ever take part in White House press conferences. While these thin-skinned megacorporations are crying about Trumps latest tweet, those of us in the alternative media are trying to direct the American peoples attention to a lawsuit that presents a very real opening for the possibility of some semblance of actual democracy in the future.I dont think the author of this piece has fully thought out the implications of having political parties. The Framers didnt want them, but they seem to be essential. And yet, if you just say, Lets have two parties, and let the people select the nominees for those parties, you have no mechanism by which those two parties establish themselves as having meaning - they are not Party A and Party B, they are Party Red and Party Blue. So which party do you associate with??? Or do you associate with both?The parties have to have ways of defining themselves, and differing charters. You cant just have Party Red and Party Blue, with no distinguishing membership characteristics. Thats why Open Primaries are an abomination. Course what you get with the Democratic Party is the same sort of hierarchical structure you have in the Republican Party - inevitably, according to Michels' Iron Law of Oligarchy. What the author of this piece inveighs against is they hypocrisy which that entails, given that the charter of the Democratic Party is - democratic.
LifeZette has their own spin on this:
https://www.lifezette.com/polizette/media-blacks-coverage-suit-dnc/
Don’t say such things to Israel.
Trump and his conspiracy nut friends.
Their biggest nightmare, the independent thinker/voter.
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