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Monday, May 23, 2022

Confused and sad

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN USED TO BE PRESIDENT JOE BLUNDER BUT HIS GOOFS AREN'T SO FUNNY NOW TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. STORMING THE WHITE HOUSE EARLIER TONIGHT, WE POSED AS EMERGENCY CHOCOLATE CHIP DELIVERY AND WERE WAIVED RIGHT THROUGH TO THE OVAL WHERE AN EXCITED JOE GREETED US WITH, "WHERE'S THE ICE CREAM!!!"

WE READ THE FOLLOWING TO HIM:

President Biden’s approval hit a new low on Monday, according to a NewsNation/Decision Desk HQ poll.

Fifty-seven percent of registered voters said they disapproved of how Biden has handled the presidency, with 40 percent saying they “strongly disapprove” and 17 percent saying they “somewhat disapprove.”

"WOW," JOE RESPONDED, "57% DISAPPROVE? SO THAT MEANS 67% OF AMERICANS APPROVE OF ME! YEA!"

WE WASTED 10 MINUTES ATTEMPTING TO EXPLAIN BASIC MATH BEFORE WE BAILED ON THAT FAILED EFFORTS.

WE TRIED AGAIN BY READING THIS TO HIM:

Amid soaring inflation, record-high gas prices and increasing economic uncertainty, President Biden is faced with the lowest approval ratings of his presidency, according to a new poll.

The NewsNation/Decision Desk HQ poll shows 57% of people disapprove of Biden’s job performance with 40% saying they “strongly disapprove” and 17% saying they “somewhat disapprove.”

WAVING HIS HAND IS DISMISSAL, THE PRESIDENT INSISTED POLLS DO NOT MATTER, "THINK ABOUT IT, I JUST DELIVERED 40 BILLION MORE TO URKAINE. YOU THINK THEY'RE NOT ALL GOING TO VOTE FOR ME IN 2024?"

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Friday, Iraqi poet Muzaffar al-Nawab passed away.

World-renowned Iraqi Arab communist poet Muzaffar al-Nawab died on May 20. He was beloved by Arab masses for language that spoke to peasants & workers, and for brilliant takedowns of corrupt Arab regimes, U.S. imperialism, and Israeli colonization & occupation.

#مظفر_النواب

arlos Latuff and 9 others

7:13 PM · May 22, 2022

WIKIPEDIA notes:

Al-Nawab was born in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1934 into an aristocratic Shi'ite family of Indian origin that appreciated art, poetry and music.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] He showed a talent for poetry from an early age. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Baghdad and became a teacher, but was expelled for political reasons in 1955 and remained unemployed for three years, at a difficult time for his family who was suffering financial hardship.^[7]

He joined the Iraqi Communist Party while still at college, and was tortured by the Hashemite Government. After the Iraqi revolution in 1958 which overthrew the monarchy, he was appointed an inspector at the Ministry of Education. In 1963 he was forced to leave Iraq to neighbouring Iran, after the intensification of competition between the nationalists and the communists who were exposed to prosecution and strict observation by the ruling regime. He was arrested and tortured by the Iranian secret police, before being forcibly repatriated to the Iraqi government. An Iraqi court handed down a death sentence against him for one of his poems, later commuted to life imprisonment. He escaped prison by digging a tunnel and fled to the marshlands, where he joined a communist faction that sought to overthrow the government.^[8]

Known for his powerful revolutionary poems and scathing invectives against Arab dictators,^[9] he lived in exile in many countries, including Syria, Egypt, Lebanon and Eritrea, where he stayed with the Eritrean rebels, before returning to Iraq in 2011.^[1] Before he returned to Iraq, he had been essentially stateless being able to travel only on Libyan travel documents. The first complete Arabic language edition of his works was published in London in 1996 by "Dar Qanbar"^[10] He died on 20 May 2022 in the University Hospital Sharjah in the UAE.^[11]

JYforeal Tweets:

Muzaffar Al-Nawab was imprisoned and tortured by the Iraqi monarchy for associating with the growing Iraqi Communsit Party. Muzaffar always stood firm in his revolutionary ideals

We mourn the loss of a great Iraqi poet.

5:10 AM · May 21, 2022

GRADE SAVER notes:

Muzaffar Al-Nawab is a celebrated Iraqi poet. He was born in 1934 to a wealthy family in Baghdad. After studying literature and becoming a teacher, he began to associate with the Communist movement in Iraq. For this he was imprisoned and tortured by the oppressive Hashemite regime; however, following, the overthrow of the Iraqi monarchy in 1958, Al-Nawab was offered a position at the Iraqi Ministry of Education. As political tensions continued between nationalists and communists, Al-Nawab was forced to flee Iraq because of his communist allegiances in 1963. He was arrested again, this time for writing poetry critical of the Iraqi Republic. He was able to escape prison and continued writing dissident poetry.

Despite, or perhaps because of his political troubles, Al-Nawab's reputation grew steadily in the 1960s. His work spread across the Arab world and was as inspiration to those standing against political regimes. As he writes in "v-Letter-Word," his work was seen as a rallying call to all those that wished to "speak out frankly of your reality." Further expanding his notoriety, many musicians set music to Al-Nawab's work. After his exile from Iraq he continued to move around Arab countries, including Egypt and Lebanon. Due to the controversial nature of his work, it was not published officially until 1996, however much of has become available on the internet. Still, it is incredibly difficult to find in printed form and many bootlegged copies circulate, though an official poetry collection was again released in 2010. Al-Nawab returned to Iraq in 2011 where he has been reportedly suffering from Alzheimer's.

He was buried Saturday. Sebastian Usher Tweets:

#Iraq : Funeral of renowned poet Muzaffar al-Nawab in Baghdad - famed for his revolutionary ideals & revolutionary use of language #مظفر_النواب #الْعِرَاق

4:00 AM · May 21, 2022

AFP adds:

He last visited Iraq in 2011, when he was received in grand pomp by the presidency. Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi called Friday for his body to be repatriated by ministerial aircraft.

The poems of Nawab, who was unmarried and had no children, were often evoked during the autumn 2019 wave of youth-led anti-corruption protests that swept Iraq.

"Why did Muzaffar al-Nawab die in the Emirates?... Because you've governed Iraq for 19 years, because Baghdad hospitals do not treat patients, because the country is not livable," Iraqi journalist Omar al-Janabi tweeted.

Yes, his work and life spoke to The October Revolution. So what happened was no surprised except for people who don't have time to pay attetnion. Desperate to hold onto his post as Prime Minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi tried to turn the day into a photo op for himself and the youth weren't having it. MIDDLE EAST EYE reports:

Iraqi Prime Minister Moustafa al-Kadhimi was forced to leave the funeral of the country's renowned communist poet Muzaffar al-Nawab on Saturday after a section of mourners began chanting slogans of contempt at his delegation.

Sinan Mahmoud and Amr Mostafa (THE NATIONAL) explain:

The funeral procession started peacefully at the Association of the Iraqi Writers in Baghdad’s Karrada neighbourhood after the wooden casket containing the poet's body arrived from the airport.

A few minutes later, some of the mourners started shouting slogans against the prime minister and Iraq's political elite.

Waving Iraqi flags and pumping their fists in the air, they shouted "The people want to bring down the regime," and "Oil is for the people not for the thieves."

The chaos forced the pallbearers to return Al Nawab's casket to the hearse and speed away with Mr Al Kadhimi's convoy.

Some of the mourners pelted the convoy with stones, bottles of water and shoes as it left.

We'll wind down with this from Nancy Hanover (WSWS):

The children of Flint, Michigan have been doubly ravaged—by lead poisoning and more than two years of SARS-CoV-2 infections and deaths. Now in the sixth wave, COVID cases in Flint’s Genesee County are rising by 69 percent, and despite ongoing outbreaks, schools remain open face-to-face. At the same time, a lawsuit now alleges that the city’s young people “acquired brain injuries” due to ingestion of lead.

The contamination of Flint’s water at the hands of General Motors, Governor Rick Snyder, and the entire city, state and national Democratic and Republican establishment exposed nearly 30,000 schoolchildren to lead, a neurotoxin that attacks developing brains and nervous systems.

The current class action lawsuit, one of many, targets engineering consultants contracted by the city (Veolia North America and Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam) during the 2014 switch to Flint River water. It has brought to light some of the devastating and widespread educational and mental health challenges the city’s children and their teachers face.

Testifying on May 10 and 12, neuropsychologist Mira Krishnan provided evidence that Flint children are suffering brain injuries due to being subjected to lead-in-water.

Dr. Krishnan, a specialist in neurodevelopmental disorders and impacts of complex trauma, examined four children, who she said exhibited hyperactivity, impulsivity and weaknesses in various subject matters in the classroom. Such problems can amplify over a lifetime. One of the children, she said, showed impairments that “very rarely would be seen in a random sampling of children from the community ... who didn’t have some sort of brain injury.”

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Saturday, May 21, 2022

Marcia's right about Viola Davis

Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Amber Under Cross" and "Equal Time For Classy Amber."

Amber Heard is a disaster and Viola Davis is another. Thank you to Marcia for writing "Viola Davis is the most bitter and bitchy woman in the world."

Every week lately, it's another whine from Viola Davis. Does she not get that (a) she's lucky to be working and (b) even now she's not all that important.

She is not leading lady of film. She's a character actress, as Marcia points out. She does not sell tickets. People do not line up to see her in a film. She can add a taste or spice to a film but that's all.

She is a TV actress because of HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER. She is that. For a few more years -- probably two.

She was the lead in Shonda Rhimes' HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER. And that's really it. THE FIRST LADY? She's not good in it. She's boo-hooed because her performance -- her bad performance -- has received so much negative attention.

That's really it. Soon she'll be like any other actress -- of any race, Viola -- who got lucky with one TV show but didn't have enough in them to warrant another.

We saw all she could do in that show.

I'm sure she'll show up as an angry judge on some legal drama for three to five episodes. Or she'll try to play a victim -- the way she does to the press all the time -- maybe an elderly shut in who witnesses a murder or something.

But her stardom? On TV, HTGAWM made her famous. That's it.

She got a bit part in the two Suicide Squad films -- the sort of bit part that James Woods used to play. Has she confused James Wood with The Rock or Robert Redford? Because he never was.

He was a good actor who could help a film be a better film; however, he was not a star nor is she.

Even there, her role hasn't resulted in a DC TV series for her character. She will, however, continue her bit part appearances on PEACEMAKER.

Is she not grasping it?

She's a naggy, judgmental scold on TV and in film. And her press doesn't present a different persona. She's a one-note irritant.

I don't get her whine fest.

With her looks, her lack of popularity, she has carved out a moment or two to be proud of and instead of that every week she's whining about this or that.

Her comments about Cameron Diaz -- yeah, that's who she was talking about recently -- were beyond bitter and bitchy. Sorry, Viola, Cameron was very popular (she still is but she's retired from acting). You've never made a film that brought in audiences, you've never been as popular as Cameron. That's not about Cameron's race or ethnicity.

And by the way, Viola, she's Latina. Her father is Cuban.

I'm so tired of Viola always playing the race card and always pulling her b.s. "If I weren't Black . . ."

You are. And that's got nothing to do with it. Your non-pretty face has a lot to do with it. Your inability to ever lighten the hell up has a lot to do with it.

Your refusal to enjoy the success you have found -- while it lasts -- goes to it.

You're a miserable person attacking everyone else and under the impression that you're a lot more important than you are.

Since you left Shonda's program, you really don't matter at all to most of us. And each week, you seem hell bent on destroying the support you once had from those of us who liked HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER.

"Iraq snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):

Friday, May 20, 2022. Joe /Biden has billions for Ukraine but nothing for American infants, Bully Boy Bush gets some attention, Julian Assange remains persecuted and much more.

US President Joe Biden continues to persecute Julian Assange for the 'crime' of journaism and the most 'offensive' thing anyone can do: Tell the truth. Julian exposed War Crimes the US government carried out in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Amnesty International Tweets:

Amnesty International: 'If the Home Secretary certifies the US request to extradite Julian Assange it will violate the prohibition against torture and set an alarming precedent for publishers and journalists around the world' @amnesty
 #FreeAssangeNOW

amnesty.org.uk

Prolonged solitary confinement is common in US maximum-security jails

‘Publishing information that is in the public interest is a cornerstone of media freedom’

6:08 AM · May 20, 2022

Julian's wife Stella Tweets:

With Gunther Wallraff, legendary german investigative journalist, holding the Gunther Wallraff prize certificate awarded to Julian #Assange. @wikileaks
 #FreeAssangeNOW

12:04 PM · May 19, 2022

Julian and WIKILEAKS are known throughout the world and the whole world watches as Joe Biden persecutes him. The world watches Joe's war on journalism and free speech. The world watches Joe act like one of the despots the US State Dept is forever decrying.

At THE GRAYZONE, Kit Klarenberg explains:

British Home Secretary Priti Patel is due to imminently decide on whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is extradited to the US, where he faces life imprisonment for journalistic activities.

The Grayzone can exclusively reveal that Patel appears to be embroiled in a covert “research and influence operation,” directly inspired by MI6 “principles and methods” and guided in part by Richard Dearlove, the foreign spying agency’s former chief.

While the Home Secretary may not be fully apprised of the dark forces swirling around her, and the purposes for which she is being exploited, there is incontrovertible evidence that her ministerial agenda and Home Office policies are being directly influenced as a result of her links to the shady group.

“Dark Ullen” to be “conducted on the same broad principles and methods as an [MI6] research and influence operation”

This May 15, the Grayzone exposed a shadowy intelligence cabal’s plot to sabotage Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal, remove her from office, and replace her with Boris Johnson in order to secure a ‘hard’ withdrawal from the EU. The cabal pursued a variety of undemocratic, if not outright criminal methods to achieve its aims.

A vast tranche containing leaked email messages between members of the cabal provided the sourcing for that exposé. Further communications reviewed and verified by The Grayzone point to more recent, shockingly diabolical schemes.

These include plots to smear environmental activists as communist agents of Chinese influence, paint Ukrainian refugees as potential Russian double agents seeking to carry out terror attacks on British soil, and “displace” Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Minister Kwasi Kwarteng.

The spectral group’s apparent leader and puppet master is Gwythian Prins, a member of the Chief of Defence Staff’s Strategy Advisory Panel, and former NATO and Ministry of Defence advisor. On January 21st, Prins wrote to former MI6 director Richard Dearlove – a key member of the cabal – outlining the terms of ‘Dark Ullen’, the codeword title of “our China project.”

Joe Biden is persecuting Julian Assange.

But Joe does everything but hump Bully Bou Bush. Oh, he's not Joey's friend and roll dog, no, not at all. Not when Joe needs their votes. When it's an election year, Joe puts a barrier -- a vaignal condom? -- between himself and Bully Boy Bush. When it's an election year, Joe lies that he only supporte dthe Iraq War because he was misled by that mean and crafty Bully Boy Bush.

Why, if it weren't for that Bully Boy Bush and his empty words and promises, Joe never, ever would have supported the Iraq War. Pinkie promise.

But after making those statements and then before making them again when he was runnng for office in 2020, what does Joe do? Apparently, everything but swallow.

Joe's a liar and always has been. He claims he made a 'mistake' on Iraq and it was all because of that evil Bully Boy Bush but in 2019, he did everything but dry hump BB onstage in front of everyone. That's not how I respond to people who lie to me. That's not how normal people respond. But Joe's not normal. Normal people don't assault Tara Reade and then pretend as though the world is crazy to ask -- after the assaults noted in her divorce papers from years ago, after her mother is on tape -- video -- calling into Larry King's CNN show in the 90s, after . . .

Joe's a damn liar. And he's senile to boot.

Alex Findjs (WSWS) notes:

The Biden administration has ordered the redeployment of 450 US soldiers to Somalia at the request of the Pentagon. Government officials state the decision is aimed at countering the advances of the Islamist group al-Shabab, which controls much of the countryside in southern and central Somalia.

Biden’s decision is a reversal of a Trump administration order to remove 700 US soldiers from the country and deploy them to neighboring countries in January 2021. Trump portrayed the action as part of his campaign promise to roll back US involvement in “forever wars,” though US troops continued to conduct military activities inside of Somalia from their new bases in neighboring Kenya and Djibouti.

The stated goal of the redeployment is to target a dozen leaders of al-Shabab, which is considered a terrorist organization by the US government, and to “maximize the safety and effectiveness of our forces and enable them to provide more efficient support to our partners,” according to Adrienne Watson, a spokesperson for the National Security Council in an interview with the New York Times.

Al-Shabab has been engaged in military confrontations with the central Somali government for over 15 years and has been the target of repeated US military operations and airstrikes. Having consolidated control over large parts of the country, the organization is believed to have 5,000 to 10,000 armed fighters and close ties to Al Qaeda.

Several deadly bombings have been linked to the group, including a truck bombing in the capital Mogadishu in 2017 that killed at least 587 people.

Capitalizing on the violent tactics and Islamist ideology of al-Shabab and other groups, the United States has used the threat of terrorism to justify military involvement in the impoverished East African country for 30 years.

Joe is not on a mission of peace. He has no mission, he can't remember what he's doing from one day to the next, he's a got a bittersweet presidency.

Joe is sending billions of US dollars to prop up the racist and Nazi regime in Ukraine (the same one he and Barack installed in 2014) but he can't help Americans suffering from inflation or from the formula shortage.

One day after President Biden invoked the 1950 Defense Production Act (DPA) in response to the US baby formula shortage, the Senate approved a bill by unanimous consent Thursday that falls far short of addressing the devastating crisis facing families with infant children across the country. Kevin Reed (WSWS) reports:

The Access to Baby Formula Act, which was first approved by the House on Wednesday, purports to ensure that families receiving government assistance benefits can continue to purchase baby formula during the shortage. The bill allows the Agriculture Department to waive the requirement that those using the federal program Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) must purchase only one brand of baby formula.

The $28 million bill also provides emergency funding to increase the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspection staff, increase resources for personnel working on formula issues, stop fraudulent baby formula from entering the US marketplace and improve data collection on the formula market.

However, the bill does nothing to fundamentally address the nightmare facing parents looking to buy formula for their infants when none can be found on store shelves. Stocks of formula have been down by 43 percent since the beginning of May. The crisis, which has been developing for months, was allowed by the Biden administration and Congress to reach catastrophic proportions before the latest measures were taken.

In commenting on the vote, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (Democrat from New York) was focused on the fact that the Democrats and Republicans agreed on a face-saving bill that will not address the immediate crisis that is facing millions of families. Schumer said, “It's rare that we have unanimity in the Senate on important measures, and I wish we had more. But this is one of these important issues and I'm glad we're acting with one voice.”

Hey, Chuck, are you going to breast feed all of the American children that need formula but don't have it? Then sit your tired ass down already. As WSWS previously noted, ""The severe shortage of baby formula across the United States continues to affect millions of families. Nationwide, there is a 43 percent deficit of infant formula, with some states and metropolitan areas seeing more than 50 percent of normal supply missing from grocery store shelves.

When the money's gone? We are arrving at that point, apparently No money for the American people under Joe Biden.

No money for the American people and their children in need. But Joe's sending more money to Ukraine -- forty billion more.

WSWS has a two-part series on the roots of modern day Ukraine.

[PART ONE] [PART TWO]

From part wo:

The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), whose actions and legacy are celebrated by the state-sponsored Ukrainian Canadian Congress, is the political-ideological fount of the fascist forces that are playing such a prominent and reactionary role in contemporary Ukraine.

In 1940, the OUN split into two groups over how best to collaborate with Nazi Germany to secure a Ukrainian national state. In pursuit of that collaboration and their rival visions of a fascist state, both factions would commit horrific crimes. Both supported the Nazis’ war of annihilation against the Soviet Union that claimed the lives of over 27 million Soviet citizens and participated in the Holocaust of European Jewry.

The OUN (Melnyk) sought to work within Nazi Germany’s occupation regime and promoted the formation of the Galicia Division of the Waffen SS. It was to this organization that the grandfather of Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland belonged.

The OUN (Bandera), many of whose members were likewise provided refuge in post-World War II Canada, also systematically embedded its forces in the Nazi military machine and its repressive apparatus in German-occupied Poland and later in the Soviet Union. But the OUN (B) took a more “radical stance,” going beyond the remit its Nazi patrons and allies had given it. After entering Lvov in June 1941, as part of the Nazi force that invaded the USSR, they declared the creation of an “independent” Ukrainian state—one they stressed would be an integral part of the Nazi-led “New Europe.” Frictions ensued. But both sides strove to maintain their alliance, and up until the war’s end the Bandera-led OUN (B) and its Ukrainian Insurgent Army or UPA collaborated with the Nazis and the Wehrmacht in fighting the Red Army and Soviet partisans, terrorizing the population and exterminating Ukraine’s Jews. It also killed tens of thousands of Poles in pursuit of an ethnically “pure” Ukraine.

Contemporary apologists for the OUN insist that they were forced into an impossible situation during World War II and can at most be accused of opportunistically embracing Nazi support and its anti-Semitism. These claims are without any historical foundation. The OUN was a fascist organization from its inception, that long sought Nazi support and whose role in the mass extermination of Ukraine’s Jews was politically prepared and prefigured by its actions in the decade prior to the war’s outbreak in 1939.

The OUN was founded in 1929 through the merger of several far-right organizations, among them the League for the Liberation of Ukraine, which had arisen out of the Union of the Ukrainian Fascists, and the Ukrainian Military Organization (UVO). Comprised of veterans of the Ukrainian nationalist forces that had fought the Bolsheviks during the Civil War that followed the 1917 October Revolution, the UVO supplied much of the OUN’s initial leadership.

Socially, the OUN was comprised of frustrated and embittered petty bourgeois, as well as dispossessed landlords and other notables. Politically, it was animated by pathological hatred for the October Revolution and the Soviet Union. Ideologically, it was part of the broader fascist, militarist and anti-egalitarian current that developed in the aftermath of the unprecedented violence and dislocation of World War I and in direct reaction against the Russian Revolution and the socialist strivings of the European working class.

But the OUN and its supporters were especially angered and aggrieved. From their perspective, the socialist revolution in Russia and the Ukraine had cheated them out of their birthright—a Ukrainian state where they would rule the roost—as well, in many cases, of their property and other privileges. Moreover, those they perceived as their ethnic rivals had been strengthened. There now was a Polish Republic, including on territory the Ukrainian nationalists coveted and which was repressing its Ukrainian minority. And as a result of the Russian Revolution, Ukraine’s Jews, long the target of pogroms and the Czarist government’s Black Hundred agitation, enjoyed unprecedented freedom.

Like the White Russian emigres, the Ukrainian far right helped fashion and promote the myth of Judeo-Bolshevism, which held the Jews responsible for the revolution, for them the incarnation of the anti-Christ. An explicitly fascist form of anti-Semitism, the Judeo-Bolshevism canard would be invoked by the Nazis and their Ukrainian allies in the OUN in inciting genocide.

Dropping back to yesterday's snapshot:

AFP reports, "Donald Trump is not in the White House. You do not know if he will run again (he seems to want to but Donald loves to f*k with people's heads), you do not know if he could get the GOP nomination if he tried to run, you do not know who the Democrats will run in 2024, "

Freud said the criminal had a compulsion to confess. I'd like to think the incident was more than a mere slip of the tongue. I'd love to believe the millions of Iraqis he killed haunt Bully Boy /bush's sleep, that they wreck every waking moment.

That's what should happen. Hes responsible for an illegal war, he's responsible for suffering, he's responsib le for a genocide.

Shame on those who are too weak and too stupid to hold him accountable. I'm referring to the ones who in 2015 would have called him out but now, because they share his hatred for Donald Trump, they're BB's best buddy.