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TIDBITS – AUG. 1 – READER COMMENTS: NETANYAHU’S BELLICOSE
CONGRESSIONAL ADDRESS; VP PICK WHO COULD RUIN UNITY; SONYA MASSEY
SHOULD STILL BE ALIVE; UNARMED RESPONSE; TOP 1% HAVE MORE WEALTH THAN
ENTIRE MIDDLE CLASS; WEEK OF ACTION FOR UTILITY JUSTICE  
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August 1, 2024
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_ Reader Comments: Netanyahu’s Bellicose Congressional Address; VP
Pick Who Could Ruin Unity; Sonya Massey Should Still Be Alive;
Argument for Unarmed Response; Top 1% Have More Wealth Than Entire
Middle Class; Week of Action for Utility Justice; more _

Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
Aug. 1, 2024, xxxxxx

 

* RE: NETANYAHU’S BELLICOSE CONGRESSIONAL ADDRESS DRAWS SCORN
 (CAROLYN TOLL OPPENHEIM)
* ISRAEL'S GAZA PEACE PLAN (2014)  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH
* RE: THE ONE VICE PRESIDENTIAL PICK WHO COULD RUIN DEMOCRATIC UNITY
 (ARLENE HALFON; ALAN HART; PATRICIA DOWLING; JAY SCHAFFNER; GARY
BONO; STEVE NATHAN; MORA NEWMAN; BILLY EASTON; MARGUERITE CYR; FELICE
SAGE)
* SUPER PROSECUTOR  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS
* RE: JD VANCE’S “CHILDLESS CAT LADIES” COMMENT POINTS TO THE
GOP’S RIGHT-WING MEDIA PROBLEM  (ROY SCHULMAN)
* RE: PALESTINIAN-AMERICAN CONGRESSWOMAN IS THE LONE PROTESTER AT
NETANYAHU’S SPEECH  (ALAN HART)
* SONYA MASSEY SHOULD STILL BE ALIVE
* RE: SONYA MASSEY’S KILLING ARGUES FOR UNARMED RESPONSE  (ROBERT
LAITE; JACK RADEY)
* SUPREME COURT REFORMS  --  CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON
* RE: CLIMATE ACTIVISTS SCORE MAJOR WIN IN CAMPAIGN TO ELECTRIFY DC
 (KIPP DAWSON)
* RE: JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ: THE ROAD TO FREEDOM  (DANIEL MILLSTONE)
* RE: THE IDF JUST DESTROYED A KEY RAFAH WATER FACILITY RACHEL
CORRIE SPENT HER LAST MONTH OF LIFE DEFENDING  (BUZZ DAVIS; JOHN
THOMPSON)
* NEW SUBWAY SIGNS
* RE: VENEZUELAN OPPOSITION CRIES FRAUD; PEOPLE REELECT PRESIDENT
MADURO  (ALLAN BALUYOT)
* TOP 1% OF U.S. NOW HAVE MORE WEALTH THAN ENTIRE MIDDLE CLASS  --
 FEDERAL RESERVE  (DYSTOPIAN DAILY)
* RE:  THE PATRIARCHS: HOW MEN CAME TO RULE  (PHIL G.)

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RESOURCES:

* TRIBUTE TO JANE MCALEVEY  --  WATCH ON DEMAND (FOR A LIMITED
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:

* WEEK OF ACTION FOR UTILITY JUSTICE: AUGUST 12-18  --  NATIONWIDE
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RE: NETANYAHU’S BELLICOSE CONGRESSIONAL ADDRESS DRAWS SCORN

Yup. Someone said he was giving a stump speech for the Israeli voters
(it was aired in Israel) , not really for us.

He's NOT on the verge of signing a cease fire deal if he can get away
with it.

Carolyn Toll Oppenheim
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ISRAEL'S GAZA PEACE PLAN (2014)  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH

 

Mike Luckovich
July 22, 2014
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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RE: THE ONE VICE PRESIDENTIAL PICK WHO COULD RUIN DEMOCRATIC UNITY
 

For me, the one choice for VP is someone who doesn't want the job,
knows he's too old, and would help any of the good possibilities get
elected. He would get behind good policy as he had started to do with
Biden and good economic policy. It would be someone who would unite
old and young and bring back the "Uncommitted (like me)." It would be
someone committed to the good of the country and the world and not
himself and would get out of the way when no longer needed to make the
needed changes.

It would be Bernie Sanders who could resign, whenever he chose, after
he moved us to, and may have accomplished, his goals.

I talk to a lot of people, including Trumpites. Mostly the latter are
wealthy and don't want equitable taxes, fair wages or positive
immigration policies. But there are others: People on the opposite end
of the economic scale: My Uber drivers, people sleeping on the street
and those hanging out on park benches. They say "The Democrats" or
"Biden" don't care about poor people; he/they doesn't/don't bother to
talk to us, the poor people and immigrants; they talk to the people
who aren't rich but have enough money (I.e. the middle class).

Trump talks to them even if he's lying. When they ask me who I like
and I say "Bernie", the reaction is almost universally is "yes, he's
the best but 'THEY' are never going to give us a chance to vote for
him. 'They' won't give us that choice so we have to vote for Trump."
When I first started hearing this, I was shocked. How can the same
people like them both (both ends of the political spectrum) but over
the past two years, it's happened so many times, I'm no longer
surprised. Yesterday, a woman yelled "Yes" and started to applaud. She
yelled, "we'd get everyone."

A Harris-Sanders Ticket, with Harris' positions on Israel-Palestine,
Economic Reform, anti-slavery (e.g., reproductive rights and no return
to a military draft) is a winning formula. Then Bernie can choose his
successor and become Secretary of Whatever is his major interest,
which could get all his attention.

"BERNIE FOR VEEP."

Arlene Halfon

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On June 4 Shapiro was about to send the state cops onto the University
of Pittsburgh campus to crack heads, arrest protesters, and violently
destroy the Gaza solidarity encampment. The only reason it didn't
happen is because Mayor Ed Gainey -- a real progressive -- intervened
and negotiated a peaceful end to the encampment. Shapiro had similarly
threatened the Gaza encampment at the Univ. of Pennsylvania earlier.
He is currently pushing for legislation that would deny state funds to
any college or university that divests from Israel, and has adopted an
executive order threatening any state employee who manifests any
sympathy with the Palestinians, Shapiro is a friend of Israel and an
enemy of free speech, and this Pennsylvanian strongly opposes him.

Alan Hart
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I have heard Shapiros name and also Pritzker

Patricia Dowling
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Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota. From Midwest, From rural state, with
full backing from labor and many progressives.

"Democrats can have Tim Walz on the ticket, who called the anti-war,
pro-Palestinian ‘uncommitted’ movement “civically engaged” and
praised them for “asking for a change in course” and “for more
pressure to be put on” the White House, or they can have Josh
Shapiro, who called for a crackdown on anti-war, pro-Palestinian
college protesters and even compared them to the KKK.

...They can have Walz, who guaranteed students in Minnesota not just
free breakfasts but free lunches, or Shapiro, who has courted
controversy in Pennsylvania with his support for school vouchers.

...They can have Walz, who calls his Republican opponents “weird”
and extreme, or Kelly, who calls his Republican opponents “good
people” who are “working really hard”.

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Jay Schaffner
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There. are a lot of reasons that it should be Mark Kelly

Gary Bono
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Two points, critical for all Progressives & members of the Gaza
Solidarity movement to face. 1. What you care most about will be
disastrously worse under Trump. 2. If you don’t show up and vote for
Harris (even if you have to “ hold your nose”), you help Trump
win. I’m sorry, but every one I’ve heard say “I just can’t
vote for the Democrats if they don’t do EVERYTHING I want”, needs
to get over themselves. The future of this Country, this planet, is
bigger than your “principles”. If you sit this one out, the lives
of Palestinian civilians gets way worse, and even more innocent
children will die.

Steve Nathan
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Steve Nathan:  Progressives I know are not sitting this one out. We
are organizing to get a massive vote to defeat the MAGA fascists. That
means electing Kamala Harris President. Don't know what "progressives"
you are referring to.

Jay Schaffner
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Mark Kelly for the WIN !!!

Mora Newman
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Glad this piece it out there. I think that Shapiro’s position on
Gaza War will scratch him off the list

Billy Easton
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He’s one of a small group of contenders. I think her position on
Israel will make her turn away from him. She has other choices and she
may surprise us with someone not in the lineup.

Marguerite Cyr
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Call me cynical but as a Jewish American, opposition to Israel's
atrocious treatment of the Palestinian people aside, I think a ticket
that would include a Jewish first gentleman, Jewish VP and second lady
would be way too Jewy for the American electorate. Polls show Harris
with a good lead in PA already. Obama had to protest that he was real
and pick a white Christian VP to become our first Black President. I'd
advise Harris to do the same to become first woman

Felice Sage
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SUPER PROSECUTOR  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS

 

Rob Rogers
July 30, 2024
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RE: JD VANCE’S “CHILDLESS CAT LADIES” COMMENT POINTS TO THE
GOP’S RIGHT-WING MEDIA PROBLEM
 

In the hopes that the Republicans self destruct before they attempt to
seize power. During the 50's the Right was marginalized and the Civil
Rights Movement was extremely effective.

Roy Schulman
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RE: PALESTINIAN-AMERICAN CONGRESSWOMAN IS THE LONE PROTESTER AT
NETANYAHU’S SPEECH
 

By all indications, the courageous congresswoman from Detroit is now
the UAW's favorite member of Congress. Good for the UAW and good for
Rashida!

Alan Hart
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SONYA MASSEY SHOULD STILL BE ALIVE

 

 

RE: SONYA MASSEY’S KILLING ARGUES FOR UNARMED RESPONSE
 

Having police respond to every type of crisis is like trying to use a
hammer to do every repair in your home.

Robert Laite
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I live in Eugene, OR , the birthplace of unarmed response.  Its
called CAHOOTS (Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets.)  It
came out of our hippy-culture free clinic, White Bird.  Before
getting city funding, it operated a van or two, with an emt and a
psych tech or social worker, helping people having mental health,
drug, or other crises on the streets.  After a while it got adopted
by the city, funded through the police budget, dispatched through the
911 system.  It expanded from 1 van to 3 or more, spread to
neighboring Springfield.

The police department fought the program tooth and nail... for a year.
 After the first year, they have pushed for more funds for CAHOOTS,
more vans, saying, "We couldn't do our job without CAHOOTS."  One
officer told me, "Look, I'm a hammer.  If you want a screw put into a
plank, I can do it, but you're not going to like the result, and it
won't do the screw or the plank any favors." 

But it is not all easy.  In order to access better Federal and State
funding, the program is now funded through the joint
Eugene/Springfield Fire Department.  It is still dispatched through
911.  But the job is highly stressful, as you can imagine.  And the
pay ain't all that great, consequently, recently CAHOOTS had to turn
some funds back over to the city, because it could not find people who
would take the job and had to leave some positions open.  It needs
more funding, like everything else (except billionaire's bank
accounts).

There is also a fly in the ointment.  If there is a report of a
weapon, or some really unsafe situation, CAHOOTS will decline to take
the call.  In terms of families with members having mental crises,
there is a dirty secret, pretty well known.  Your kid is freaking
out, breaking things, screaming insanities.  You call 911.  They say
someone will come.  You ask for CAHOOTS.  Nothing happens for an
hour.  Two hours.  Why?  Its evening, there is one CAHOOTS van
rolling, and 4 police cruisers.  There are 130,000 people in the
city, and your kid isn't the only one coming unglued.  But if you
know the secret words, you can bump this call up to the top of the
priority response list.  The magic words are, "threat to self or
others."  That will bring a response right smartly.  But it is
likely to be a pair of guys in uniform, carrying Glocks.  Which will
often set off a reaction in the unwell individual.  The outcome can
be ugly.  But if the person is a reported threat, CAHOOTS doesn't
want to put its people in danger.

What this latest horror illustrates is not the need for disarming or
defunding cops.  It IS a very good argument for being damned careful
who you hire at police officers, and making sure you keep tabs on
THEIR mental state.  The cop who murdered her had a record of
misconduct and had frequently switched jobs.  In Eugene, out of 100
applicants, sometimes 50% never show for the physical test, some wash
out of the psych exam.  Others fail in training.  Unlike almost all
other departments, the Eugene PD not only calls when doing background
checks.  They will fly out an investigator to interview the
prospective hire's family, friends, employers, fellow workers, and if
it is an officer transferring, his employment records and talk with
his supervisors and others.  Like all departments our EPD is
understaffed, but in all cases before hiring the chief sits and talks
with them for a while.  And if he feels there is a problem, even
after they've passed all the tests and taken all the training, they
are not hired.  Recently he questioned 6 who had all passed up to
that point.  And flushed all 6.

We have  plenty of work still to do here, but while we must create
and properly fund many programs for unarmed response, we can also
greatly reduce police murders by being more careful who we hire, and
taking  better care of them.  And we need to remember, in this
gun-saturated society, every police killing is not a murder.  We've
had 3 here in recent years.  One of a guy who fired two shots point
blank at two officers, one of a guy who had taken an officer's taser
and was hammering the cop's head against the curb, and a third who was
running at an officer with a knife, as the officer frantically backed
up and yelled at the guy to stop.  Not one was a murder.  There are
police murders, and this one was yet another in a terrible long
string.  But we must be careful, if we call every police killing a
murder we misunderstand the situation badly and cannot make useful
suggestions as to how to change it.

Jack Radey

 

SUPREME COURT REFORMS  --  CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON

 

Nick Anderson
July 30, 2024
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RE: CLIMATE ACTIVISTS SCORE MAJOR WIN IN CAMPAIGN TO ELECTRIFY DC
 

Sometimes some of us win some — and we share and grow our work
together. 

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Extinction Rebellion D.C.’s campaign that is blocking $12 billion in
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Kipp Dawson
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RE: JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ: THE ROAD TO FREEDOM
 

Via xxxxxx
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by Trump are clearly explained. Stiglitz favors trust busting to
address some inflation issues.. But how about something that would
directly help us in the supermarket and finding homes: price controls?

Daniel Millstone
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RE: THE IDF JUST DESTROYED A KEY RAFAH WATER FACILITY RACHEL CORRIE
SPENT HER LAST MONTH OF LIFE DEFENDING
 

These people think like the Nazis did.

Buzz Davis, Vets for Peace in Tucson

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Further proof that Israel is committing genocide.

John Thompson
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NEW SUBWAY SIGNS

 

 

RE: VENEZUELAN OPPOSITION CRIES FRAUD; PEOPLE REELECT PRESIDENT MADURO
 

The world has seen this MOVIE produced by Washington DC/Capitol, CIA,
and mainstream media. The title is numerous: Intervention,
destabilization, coup de tat, assassination.

Allan Baluyot

 

TOP 1% OF U.S. NOW HAVE MORE WEALTH THAN ENTIRE MIDDLE CLASS  --
 FEDERAL RESERVE
 

The upper class was always waging class warfare. But now that the
working class is aware and attempting to fight back, its "sowing
division". Wealth is a zero-sum game because there are finite
resources. That's why us working class folks get poorer every year as
the upper class gets wealthier.

And no, there isn't enough to go around.

    Homes "unaffordable" in 99% of nation for average American
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RE:  THE PATRIARCHS: HOW MEN CAME TO RULE 

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The Author and the moderators at xxxxxx might want to read Frederick
Engels' The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State.

Phil G.

 

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WEEK OF ACTION FOR UTILITY JUSTICE: AUGUST 12-18  --  NATIONWIDE
ACTIONS  (PEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE AND 350.ORG)

 

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STOP PROFITING FROM THE CLIMATE CRISIS WHILE WE STRUGGLE TO PAY OUR
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Energy is a human right. We need to stay warm when it’s cold, and to
stay cool when it’s hot. We need hot water to bathe and cook, and
some of us even rely on electricity for oxygen.

We pay energy bills to meet our families’ basic needs—and yet the
people who get that money spend it on energy sources that are
unreliable, expensive, and burning up the planet. They raise our rates
for their own profit, and then they turn off our power in seconds if
we don’t pay them enough money. MONOPOLY UTILITIES SPEND RATEPAYER
MONEY—OUR MONEY—ON POLITICAL LOBBYING, JOINING BIG OIL
BILLIONAIRES TO OPPOSE CLEAN ENERGY AND INSTEAD PAD THEIR WALLETS BY
KEEPING US DEPENDENT ON DIRTY ENERGY SOURCES, EVEN WHEN WE HAVE SAFE
AND AFFORDABLE ALTERNATIVES.  

THAT DOESN’T ADD UP. AND IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY.

THIS AUGUST 12–18, PEOPLE’S ACTION MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS AND
350.ORG NETWORK COUNCIL ARE TAKING ACTION ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO SEND A
CLEAR MESSAGE TO OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS, REGULATORS, AND UTILITY
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*  TRANSITION TO 100% CLEAN RENEWABLE ENERGY.
*  ENERGY SYSTEMS RUN BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE — DEMOCRATIC
OWNERSHIP AND DECISION-MAKING FOR ENERGY GENERATION & DISTRIBUTION.

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