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Interesting character, John Brown. Visionary? Terrorist? John Steuart Curry's 1939 Tragic Prelude mural (en.wikipedia.org) in the Kansas State Capital really captures him for me. The painting was highly controversial when unveiled, largely because of Curry's portrayal of Brown - a prominent figure during the state's then-not-so-distant "Bleeding Kansas" period: www.amazon.com

@#75 ... Thanks to the voters of NYC.

The DNC ran Cuomo to sink Mamdani. ...

Yeah.

NYC, NY is the largest community of Jews outside of Israel. By a long shot.

Jewish population by city
en.wikipedia.org

...
Tel Aviv 3,891,000
New York City 2,109,300
Jerusalem 992,800
Haifa 710,600
...

So the DNC tried to appeal to that community, and failed.

Mayor Mamdani, in talking with voters, instead of talking at voters, gained an advantage.



"On Lesser Evil Voting

Noam Chomsky's view of electoral politics is, I believe, a sensible one. In fact, it's not his; as he says, it's the "traditional left view," just one that we've lost clarity on.

People mistakenly assume that by saying "vote against Trump," Chomsky is putting too much stock in the power of voting and is insufficiently cynical about the Democratic Party.

In fact, it's completely the opposite: he puts very little stock in voting and is perhaps even more cynical about the Democrats than his critics, which is why he doesn't think it's surprising or interesting that Biden is offering the left almost nothing and the party is treating voters with contempt.

The "traditional left view" he talks about is, roughly: we need to participate in elections, when they happen, and vote for the least harmful candidate. That's common sense.

But we should not see elections as the domain where we express our deepest political values, or give them an outsized role in our understanding of what politics is. Instead, we need to be working the rest of the time for the betterment of our world in different ways.

Sometimes that involves running candidates in elections, and trying to improve the slate on offer - hence the Sanders campaign, AOC, the dozens of DSA elected officials around the country.

But that's only one part of what we do. We are also building institutions; unions, media organizations, pressure groups and political organizations. We are working slowly on building power, which cannot be done in general elections.

That's news to nobody, yet everyone's attention is still fixated on national presidential politics to an unhealthy degree, to the neglect especially of state, local, and international politics."

www.currentaffairs.org

that's summation at the end of a very long article

Here's the original Halle-Chomsky position on LEV:

chomsky.info

You're more likely to catch HIV at a truck stop.

Complete and utter nonsense.

Do you have any idea what the containment and disinfection procedures are for dealing with Ebola? Why? Because like I said, the infectious dose is very low and it's stable in the environment for days. You could touch a contaminated door knob and then rub your eye and not even know you've infected yourself until symptoms start. You can be infected by droplet transmission if an infected individual is coughing in your near vicinity (no it's not airborne in the true definition).

There's a reason people dealing with patients or decontaminating spaces where a patient was held are dressed head to toe in disposable, water proof clothing like Tyvek suits/booties/hoods, heavy duty rubber work boots and gloves (probably latex/nitrile gloves underneath that that are taped/sealed to the wrists of the Tyvek), with sealed goggles to protect the eyes, face shields and respirators. When they step out of the space they're cleaning top to bottom with bleach and other disinfectants, they themselves are sprayed down with bleach and other disinfectants while the stand in a bath of disinfectant to fully sanitize the bottoms and sides of the boots.

Ebola is difficult and expensive to deal with, which is why the standard practice before pedo Musk and the Orange Chomo gutted USAID was to catch it as quickly as possible by constant monitoring and dealing with outbreaks before they spread to additional locations.

It could become a problem not because of ease of spread but because the ability to overwhelm official's abilities and resources to deal with it.


Dummkopf Trumpf will also be ruining the day for NY Knicks fans when he attends one of the semi-finals games in Madison Square Garden (MSG). Source: drudge.com

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY): "Why does [Dummkopf] Trumpf always have to ruin a good thing?"

That's what Republicans do. They ruin everything.

#14 Clown, I think it is working out just fine for Democratic Party candidates, 2025 and 2026 ...

-> Georgia voters ousted two Republican members of the state's Public Service Commission in favor of two Democrats - the first Democrats to win statewide nonfederal offices in decades.

-> Democrats in Mississippi Break the G.O.P.'s State House Supermajority

-> Every single county in Virginia - even deeply red counties - saw shifts TOWARDS the Democrats, as opposed to how they voted 1 year ago.

-> Dems flip Wichita School Board from a 4-3 GOP majority to a 5-2 Democratic majority. Democratic candidates Amy Warren and Amy Jensen defeated Republican incumbents Hazel Stabler and Kathy Bond.

-> Two of Tuesday's school board elections were in Bucks County, Pa., which was considered "ground zero" for right-wing groups' takeover of school boards in 2021. A few years ago, conservatives on these boards in Pennbridge and Central Bucks districts were using their roles to pass policies targeting LGBTQ+ students and banning books.

---> Democrats flipped control of both boards in 2023, and on Tuesday, they ousted every Republican from both of these boards, except for one. The Pennbridge school board is now 8-1, with Democratic members in control. The Central Bucks school board is 9-0.

-> In Texas, we even won in Lockhart, which sits in a district so red that Democrats normally don't even run. We had a clean sweep in Cy-Fair ISD, another deeply red area that not even Greg Abbott could save your party.

-> In SD-9, another red district, we saw an 8 point shift for the Democrat

-> Eileen Higgins elected as first Democratic mayor of Miami in three decades

And I'm pretty certain that those results are not making Republicans any happier.

If CIA was doing its job properly, the USIC wouldn't even need the ODNI, another post-9/11 GWOT creation.

SOCOM J2, DIA, FBI, NSA, and CIA all had different, relevant pieces of the puzzle before the 9/11 attacks.

The FBI was monitoring the al-Qaida flight students in the US and knew they spent their time concerned with navigation, not take-off, landing, or emergency procedures.

SOCOM J2 in Tampa has a computer program that linked the al-Qaida operatives. I can't recall the name of their program right now, but it was flashing RED in 2001.

DIA was aware that al-Qaida was conducting anti-US plots.

NSA was picking up signals of "something," but nothing concrete.

But CIA had HUMINT sources in Afghanistan that knew al-Qaida was preparing for a mega-attack somewhere. Al-Qaida failed with the Bojinka plot years before.

In the mujahadeen camps, the Pashtun Taliban fighters saw the al-Qaida posters looking for volunteers for a martyrdom mission. UBL requested mujahadeen for a "muscle team," amongst other requirements, like high IQ (to become flight students everyone learned later).

But the Pashtuns didn't anything to do with the pagal Arabs anymore, so they alerted Mullah Omar who then warned UBL not to conduct any external attacks from Afghanistan.

UBL married into Mullah Omar's family and he killed one of Mullah Omar's greatest enemies in the Northern Alliance just before 9/11, so he was "forgiven."

In the summer of 2001, CIA briefed "Dubya" via the PDB, alerting him that al-Qaida was "up to something," to which "Shrub" replied, "OK, got it." [sic]

Had CIA shared their precious intelligence in normal USIC traffic (M3 or WISE TS-SCI systems), the FBI might have detained the four flight students for interrogation before 9/11 and that PDB would have been more valuable:

"Good Morning, Mr President. CIA is aware that al-Qaida is preparing for a major attack against the United States of America. Their previous American target was the WTC in NYC in 1993 and a suicide airline attack plot in Asia which the Philippines security services interrupted. FBI is aware that four suspected al-Qaida operatives are flight students in Texas and Florida. These four flight students have since been detained and are being interrogated by the FBI. CIA and FBI will keep you apprised of any information they uncover."

"OK, got it." [sic]

The 9/11 Commission Report covered all this and suggested an overseer for CIA and all USIC agencies to share data with each other, hence the "bloated" ODNI.

ODNI, DHS, and ICE-- post-9/11 monstrosities, must all go on 20 Jan 2029.



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