PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT POETRY: “Alternative Facts on Seven Countries’ Terrorists” / Black Agenda Report / Raymond Nat Turner ☮

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by BAR poet in residence Raymond Nat Turner

This and every year since the dawn of this country, most terrorist acts in the US have been perpetrated by white Christian males. So how, our poet asks, do we make sense of Trump’s attempted travel ban and its effect on terrorism inside the US? Do they really fear that white boys will be trained in Somaila, Yemen, Iraq or Iran?

Orange Alert
Extreme Vetting—
Iraq, Iran, Libya,
Somalia, Syria, Sudan, Yemen
Troublesome travel areas!!!!
Increased risk of terrorist activity—
Increased risk of recruiters breaching
our borders and recruiting freedom-lovin’, fun-lovin’,
red-blooded, brave white boys; unwitting and innocent
white boys and turnin’ them into Bad Hombres!

Increased risk of white boys coming out
Libyan Conversion Therapy Camps Bad Hombres and
Bombing Oklahoma City;
Coming out Somalian Conversion Therapy Camps Bad Hombres
Shooting up schools like Sandy Hook and Columbine;
Coming out Sudanese Conversion Therapy Camps Bad Hombres
Shooting up Colorado Movie Theaters;
Coming out Iraqi Conversion Therapy Camps Bad Hombres
Killing South Carolina Churchgoers…

Orange Alert
Iraq, Iran, Libya,
Somalia, Syria, Sudan, Yemen
Must be Bad hombre hotbeds—Conversion Therapy Camps
Radicalizing Extremists elements practicing Scalia Law!

They gotta be
Havens for White Boy Terrorist Training—
Camps teaching critical klan theory—white supremacy studies:
Love of Hitler, hatred of Jews and how to say ‘nigger’ in 19 languages
While organizing Lynch Mobs posing as Sports Fans and practicing
Foam Finger Fundamentalism: “U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A!” and singing the
“Star Spangled Banner” Bud-drunk, obedient to the 1%
Why, even FOX thinks they’re
Conversion Therapy Camps
Teaching
Bad Hombres how to
Infiltrate police departments,
and the army, and become confederate
flag-waving wild Boers—GI jihadis;
Teaching
‘em how to
How to set up sleeper cells in klu klux klan klaverns;
Teaching
‘em how to
Rape in the Philippines, Okinawa and Oklahoma City and
Get away with it;
How To View ‘people of color’ as collateral damage—‘bug splat’
Instruction from the White Boy Field Manual On Murder—
Stand Your Ground Studies: how to say with conviction,
“I feared for my safety…” after shooting ‘sand niggers’ ‘rag-heads’
‘camel jockeys’ ‘gooks’ ‘spics’ ‘spades’ ‘chinks’ and cutting off fingers
for souvenirs

Hey, maybe the Drone Ranger’s bombing 7 countries
Makes sense?
Maybe he was taking out existential threats:
White Boy Terrorist Training Camps?

PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Medicare for All with Dr. Margaret Flowers” / RT America / On Contact with Chris Hedges ☮

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In this week’s episode of On Contact, Chris Hedges discusses how the dysfunctional U.S. health care system can be fixed with Dr. Margaret Flowers, a pediatrician and leading advocate for a single-payer system. RT Correspondent Anya Parampil looks at the soaring cost of health care.

PSYCHOLOGY – ANALYTICAL: “Carl Jung: What are Archetypes?” / Academy of Ideas ☮

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In this video we investigate what Carl Jung called archetypes, explaining what they are, how they influence our lives, their relationship to symbols, and their connection to religious experiences.

PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Is Trump About to Come for You and Your Pot?” / The Big Picture RT / Thom Hartmann ☮

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On tonight’s Big Picture, Thom discusses the Trump administration’s war on drugs and what it means for states’ marijuana legalization with Lt. Commander Diane Goldstein (Ret.). Then, Thom talks to Valerie Ervin of the Working Families Party and Kymone Freeman of We Act Radio about adviser Stephen Miller’s comments on the judiciary, and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach advising Trump to crack down on voter fraud.

PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “The Elites Won’t Save Us” / truthdig / Chris Hedges / 02.12.2017 ☮

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The four-decade-long assault on our democratic institutions by corporations has left them weak and largely dysfunctional. These institutions, which surrendered their efficacy and credibility to serve corporate interests, should have been our firewall. Instead, they are tottering under the onslaught.

Labor unions are a spent force. The press is corporatized and distrusted. Universities have been purged of dissidents and independent scholars who criticize neoliberalism and decry the decay of democratic institutions and political parties. Public broadcasting and the arts have been defunded and left on life support. The courts have been stacked with judges whose legal careers were spent serving corporate power, a trend in appointments that continued under Barack Obama. Money has replaced the vote, which is how someone as unqualified as Betsy DeVos can buy herself a Cabinet seat. And the Democratic Party, rather than sever its ties to Wall Street and corporations, is naively waiting in the wings to profit from a Trump debacle.

“The biggest asset Trump has is the decadent, clueless, narcissistic, corporate-indentured, war-mongering Democratic Party,” Ralph Nader said when I reached him by phone in Washington. “If the Democratic strategy is waiting for Godot, waiting for Trump to implode, we are in trouble. And just about everything you say about the Democrats you can say about the AFL-CIO. They don’t control the train.”

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