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TIDBITS – AUG. 8 – READER COMMENTS: 2024 ELECTIONS: DEMOCRATIC
CONVENTION, HARRIS, WALZ, UNCOMMITTED MOVEMENT; ISRAEL KILLING HAMAS
LEADERS WHO WANT CEASEFIRE; REMEMBERING HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI; BIDEN
ISSUES A STINGING DISSENT TO SCOTUS; CARTOONS;  
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August 8, 2024
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_ Reader Comments: 2024 Elections: Democratic Convention, Harris,
Walz, Uncommitted Movement; Israel Killing Hamas Leaders Who Want
Ceasefire; Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Biden Issues a Stinging
Dissent to SCOTUS; Lots of Cartoons; more.... _

Tidbits - Reader Comments AND cartoons - August 8, 2024, xxxxxx

 

* RE: THE ENERGY HAS CHANGED. THE UNDERLYING POLITICS HAVE NOT.
 (DAVID BOIM)
* RE: UNCOMMITTED MOVEMENT DEMANDS SPEAKER AT DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
 (PAUL BUHLE)
* KRAZY KAT LADY CORNERS THE RATS  --  CARTOON BY LALO ALCARAZ
* THE ELEPHANT IN THE WOMB
* RE: ISRAEL HAS A HISTORY OF KILLING HAMAS LEADERS WHO ARE TRYING
TO SECURE CEASEFIRES  (JUDYTH HOLLUB)
* ORANGE CRUSH COMING SOON  --  MEME
* RE: ‘GOP HAS NO ANSWER FOR THIS’: POLLSTER SAYS HARRIS
CAMPAIGN CLOSE TO BECOMING A ‘MOVEMENT’  (ARLENE HALFON)
* TODAY WE ARE GOING TO LEARN ABOUT...WAGE THEFT  (DANIELA
BATTISTELLA)

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* REMEMBERING HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI  --  "NAGASAKI JOURNEY"

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* RE: PROTEST AND SERVE  (BRAD SMITH)
* OLYMPICS ... DIVERSITY
* HISTORY DOESN'T REPEAT ITSELF - BUT SOMETIMES IT ECHOES
 (SOLIDARITY INFO SERVICE)
* RE: REVEALED: US OFFICIALS ARE INVESTING PUBLIC FUNDS IN ISRAELI
BONDS IN DEALS THAT RAISE ETHICS CONCERNS  (SONIA COBBINS)
* RE: NEW ‘BATTERY BELT’ OPENS ORGANIZING FRONT IN THE SOUTH
 (NATALYA PANTELEYEVA)
* DOUBLE WEIRD  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH
* RE: JOE BIDEN ISSUES A STINGING DISSENT TO SCOTUS  (GARY LEMKE)
* NEW SUPREME COURT ROBES  --  CARTOON BY BENJAMIN SLYNGSTAD
* NOT SEE IT COMING  --  CARTOON BY CLAY JONES
* RE: HAVE WE OUTGROWN THE CSA MODEL?  (CHARLES PATRICK LYNCH)
* RE: SCHOOLS FOR STRUGGLE: FOR A WORKERS’ EDUCATION MOVEMENT
 (J.P. BONE)

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* BEHIND THE HEADLINES - DISSECTING ABC NEWS  -- ASSAL RAD

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RE: THE ENERGY HAS CHANGED. THE UNDERLYING POLITICS HAVE NOT.
 

It means that continued behavior by progressives favors the election
of Donald Trump. The Middle East quagmire is not one sided. What do we
say of the 7000 rockets fired into Israel each year. The attack on a
soccer field filled with children. Where is the outrage? There are few
more progressive than me. I acknowledge the complex issues of the
Middle East. In their quest to win this battle, those people who fail
to grasp this moral dilemma will lose the war. We must unite behind
Harris and defeat Donald Trump in November.

David Boim
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: UNCOMMITTED MOVEMENT DEMANDS SPEAKER AT DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
 

we support Kamala, but we deserve to be heard.

Paul Buhle
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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KRAZY KAT LADY CORNERS THE RATS  --  CARTOON BY LALO ALCARAZ

 

Lalo Alcaraz
August 1, 2024
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THE ELEPHANT IN THE WOMB

 

 

RE: ISRAEL HAS A HISTORY OF KILLING HAMAS LEADERS WHO ARE TRYING TO
SECURE CEASEFIRES
 

The right-wing Israeli government has become the biggest obstacle to
peace in the Middle East. They seem to want to kill as many
Palestinians as possible and don't appear to care if their own
citizens get killed as hostages in the process.

Judyth Hollub
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ORANGE CRUSH COMING SOON  --  MEME

 

Americans For Progressive Change
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RE: ‘GOP HAS NO ANSWER FOR THIS’: POLLSTER SAYS HARRIS CAMPAIGN
CLOSE TO BECOMING A ‘MOVEMENT’
 

I don't think the new Movement is about Harris. If I'm an example,
it's one of cautious optimism, as opposed to the forced "Uncommitted"
we had when there was no chance of having a real choice. It could
still change if whoever she chooses as VP is so awful in one or more
respects that we have to return to "non-committed" This could happen
with issues dealing with Israel-Palestine, Immigration, Economic,
climate, or something else.

Whether he wants it or not, the only VP choice that remains safe is
Bernie. He can resign once they are elected and he becomes certain
he's too old to do the job or just doesn't want it.

Arlene Halfon

 

TODAY WE ARE GOING TO LEARN ABOUT...WAGE THEFT

 

Daniela Battistella
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REMEMBERING HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI  --  "NAGASAKI JOURNEY"

 

Here, you will find a short (2 min. 3 sec.) excerpt made from an HD
version of:

"Nagasaki Journey
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(1995).

You may find this documentary bundled with:
"Dark Circle
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By Judy Irving (Director) & Chris Beaver (Director).
Rated: NR 
Format: DVD

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Sumiteru Taniguchi [[link removed]]
(Taniguchi Sumiteru, 26 January 1929 – 30 August 2017).

The following text is from a 2015 web page (now deleted, it seems):

This is what a man who survived an atomic bomb explosion looks like.
The old man showed his wounds to the public as part of the action of
the group of Nagasaki survivors, which he leads and which fights
against the spread of nuclear weapons in the world
08.08.2015

Disclaimer: The translations are mostly done through AI translator and
might not be 100% accurate.

The frail body of 86-year-old Sumiteri Taniguchi is full of scars,
which have been on his skin for 70 years. This old man was among the
tens of thousands of victims of the atomic bomb that destroyed the
Japanese port city of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.

He is still unable to fully straighten his left arm, while his wife
puts cream on his wounds every morning to make them less bothersome.

After the attack, three of his ribs rotted away and their remains are
still pressing on his lungs, leaving unnatural swellings on his
scarred chest.

The old man showed his wounds to the public as part of the action of a
group of Nagasaki survivors that he leads and which fights against the
spread of nuclear weapons in the world.

"Daily Mail" writes that he and his group hope that no one will
experience the suffering of a nuclear attack again.

Taniguchi was just 16 when the five-ton plutonium bomb, known as "The
Fat Man," exploded 50 meters above his hometown of Nagasaki, on the
western Japanese island of Kyushu.

That city was one of Japan's most important ports, providing key
access to Shanghai.

It was two minutes past noon when the bomb was detonated, the second
such atomic explosion in Japan in just three days.

Just 72 hours earlier the first nuclear weapon ever used had been used
on Hiroshima. Up to 226.000 people were killed in the two attacks.

Taniguchi was then working as a letter carrier as a teenager and a
powerful explosion knocked him off his bicycle.

It was located a little more than 1,6 kilometers from the epicenter of
the explosion that killed 70.000 people there.

Stunned after the impact, he wandered aimlessly for three days,
completely unaware of the severity of his injuries.

He felt something like torn clothes hanging from his back, shoulders
and arms, only to realize later that it was his skin.

After being rescued, he spent 21 months lying on his stomach receiving
treatment for his burned back, decaying flesh and protruding bones.

Constantly passing out and coming back to consciousness, he could hear
the sisters walking down the hall outside his room asking each other
if the boy in the room was still breathing.

He lay so motionless that the still young bones of his left arm fused
together and blocked the joint, disabling it for life.

A few hours after the second attack, more than three million leaflets
were dropped on Japan from American planes.

They warned the Japanese people that more atomic bombs would be
dropped "again and again" to destroy that country, if the war did not
stop.

Japan surrendered six days later.

Feel free to share the excerpt.

Seyn Laproyen

 

RE: PROTEST AND SERVE
 

Maybe some groups could get together as there are too many groups
advocating for systemic change but operating independently. Yes, I
know that you already know this.

Brad Smith

 

OLYMPICS ... DIVERSITY

 

 

HISTORY DOESN'T REPEAT ITSELF - BUT SOMETIMES IT ECHOES

 

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RE: REVEALED: US OFFICIALS ARE INVESTING PUBLIC FUNDS IN ISRAELI BONDS
IN DEALS THAT RAISE ETHICS CONCERNS
 

Very informative article. The amounts invested in Israel Bonds by US
states are enormous and seem to provide an incentive to continue the
assaults on Gaza and weapons sales. Only moves toward peace are in the
interests of Israeli, Gazan, US people and all people in the world.
Hope the conflict of interest type complaints are successful.

Sonia Cobbins
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: NEW ‘BATTERY BELT’ OPENS ORGANIZING FRONT IN THE SOUTH

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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Good luck.

I wouldn't be too fast believing all these plans will take off any
time soon. The market has gone soft, no infrastructure, recession is
looming. Will you be buying a $10k car for over $55k on your salary?
What about emissions at these plants and energy costs?

The White House is no Henry Ford to make these vehicles affordable. 

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*     Electric Vehicles Aren’t Ready for Extreme Heat and Cold.
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Natalya Panteleyeva

 

DOUBLE WEIRD  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH
 

Mike Luckovich
August 1, 2024
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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RE: JOE BIDEN ISSUES A STINGING DISSENT TO SCOTUS
 

See, I do read this stuff.  The xxxxxx article below about the
Supreme Court carries mostly talking points but has one super alarming
concept challenging our republican (small r) form of government.  I
think it is the third or fourth paragraph from the end.  Specifically
this sentence.

He is, of course, far from the first president to do this — Abraham
Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt come to mind — but he is the first
modern Democratic president to recognize that the court as constituted
is a major obstacle to the party's ability to govern in accordance
with its popular mandate.

A republic was selected as our form of government by the framers over
a true democracy to curb the power of the "popular mandate."  In a
true democracy a group of three could vote to execute one of the
group.  In that true democracy that popular mandate would send him to
meet his maker.  

At this time the current administration is thwarted by an independent
court adhering to the concept of originalism which the writer deems
invalid.  He is entitled to his opinion.  I'm not sure what the
writer actually wants the Supreme Court to be as long as it gets out
of this (emphasis added) administration's way.  

While he firmly believes the court has been wrong in recent decisions
the idea that the court should be subject to the temporary whims of a
true democracy stands in direct contrast to the original intentions of
the founders.  Hence the idea of checks and balances found throughout
the constitution.

As a side comment, my belief is that the founders were much better
educated and more qualified to form a government than anyone (again,
emphasis) now living.  There is no way the current crop could match
the US constitution.  Their goal was not the one perfect form of
government, they were wise enough to set "more perfect" as the goal.

You may share this as you wish.

Gary Lemke

 

NEW SUPREME COURT ROBES  --  CARTOON BY BENJAMIN SLYNGSTAD

 

Benjamin Slyngstad
July 1, 2024
@SlyngCartoons
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NOT SEE IT COMING  --  CARTOON BY CLAY JONES

 

Clay Jones
July 22, 2024
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RE: SCHOOLS FOR STRUGGLE: FOR A WORKERS’ EDUCATION MOVEMENT

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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If you are going to make any effort to set up worker's study groups i
would suggest that you first educate yourself about labor history. You
give credit to the Ruther Bros. for what happened in the Flint Sit
Down Strike though the actual leader of the strike, the main
organizer, was Bob Travis.

    The Flint Sit-Down Strike 1936-1937
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J.P. Bone

 

RE: HAVE WE OUTGROWN THE CSA MODEL?

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Good for the white middle class with cars and stuff. For others? Where
do poor people get the money to pay up front? Or have we given up on
the poor?

Charles Patrick Lynch
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Behind The Headlines - Dissecting ABC News  -- Assal Rad

 

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August 6, 2024

 

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