[ Reader Comments: Impeachment, Obfuscation, Political Corruption;
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Rico; Vietnam War, My Lai Massacre; Whistleblowers, Amazon; workers
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TIDBITS - NOV. 28, 2019 - READER COMMENTS: IMPEACHMENT-OBFUSCATION,
CORRUPTION; BENJAMIN NETANYAHU; BOLIVIA, CHILE; PUERTO RICO; MY LAI
MASSACRE; WHISTLEBLOWERS, AMAZON; WORKERS RIGHTS-CLIMATE CRISIS,
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_ Reader Comments: Impeachment, Obfuscation, Political Corruption;
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Rico; Vietnam War, My Lai Massacre; Whistleblowers, Amazon; workers
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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements AND cartoons -
Nov. 28, 2019, xxxxxx

 

Korupt prezadent  --  cartoon by Mike Luckovich
Re: Gordon Sondland Throws Trump, Giuliani Under the Bus (Marilyn
Albert; Sam Webb)
Re: No One Is Above the Law - Netanyahu Decries 'Attempted Coup'
Against Him After Corruption Charges (Clare Bear; Jerry Jones; Judith
Halprin; Danny Hallinan; Thomas E. Batts Jr.; Domingo Soto)
Re: Devin Nunes Accuses Witnesses of Misleading American People With
Facts (Wayne Gravelle; Enrico Campomizzi; Jenny Kastner; Demy De
Jesus)
The Good Billionaire  --  cartoon by Jason Adam Katzenstein
Re: A Letter to Intellectuals Who Deride Revolutions in the Name of
Purity (Margaret Cerullo; Mike Liston)
Re: Repressive Violence is Sweeping Bolivia. The Áñez Regime Must Be
Held to Account (Suzanne Prescott)
Re: Hundreds of Chileans Blinded by Police Since Protests Began (Andy
Bateman; Neil Rogall)
Re: Medicaid Funding Slashed In U.S. Territories (Mary Anne Merrill-
Ramirez; Philip Specht; Brenda López De Victoria; Mary Bang; Robert
Supansic; Gloria Medina; Alba Grace Pereira Medina; Carmen Roman;
Elias Bou Gauthier)
Re: The Whistleblowers of the My Lai Massacre (Aida Rivera; Philip; CG
Lausell)
Re: Were Other Humans the First Victims of the Sixth Mass Extinction?
(Chuck Willer; John Woodford)
Re: Ruthless Quotas at Amazon Are Maiming Employees (Abby Fuller;
Steven Biel)

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Debates of the Century: Rent Regulation - New York - December 17 (The
Century Foundation and NYU Wagner)

 

KORUPT PREZADENT  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH
 

Mike Luckovich

November 26, 2019
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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RE: GORDON SONDLAND THROWS TRUMP, GIULIANI UNDER THE BUS
 

The Dems need to conduct a sophisticated public campaign now,
educating the people - they can't just assume everybody watched these
hearings like some of us did....

Marilyn Albert

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We underestimate the Democrats; the left, I suspect, could learn a
lesson or two from them.

Sam Webb

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RE: NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW - NETANYAHU DECRIES 'ATTEMPTED COUP'
AGAINST HIM AFTER CORRUPTION CHARGES
 

Sounds familiar

Clare Bear

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⚖️ Justice⚡️ is above the law

Jerry Jones

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crooks of a feather

Judith Halprin

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His whole country is apparently "above the law"

Danny Hallinan

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Just like Trump. The fool loves corruption

Thomas E. Batts Jr.

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Sounds very Trumpy, very, very Trumpisty! He has been very close to
Trumpenstein and could have been contaminated by the virus
trumpensteinvirusitum

Domingo Soto

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RE: DEVIN NUNES ACCUSES WITNESSES OF MISLEADING AMERICAN PEOPLE WITH
FACTS
 

This is a frightening comment for anyone to make.Man is definitely
stupid nothing changes facts and facts prove guilt.

Wayne Gravelle

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Confuse the people with facts . That means either the American public
are stupid or the Republicans are trying to play hide and seek with
the facts . Let trump and his minions testify

Enrico Campomizzi

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Poor guy. Trying to defend the indefensible with such a tiny brain!

Jenny Kastner

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He really said something so stupid?

Demy De Jesus

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THE GOOD BILLIONAIRE  --  CARTOON BY JASON ADAM KATZENSTEIN
 

Jason Adam Katzenstein

November 22, 2019
The New Yorker
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RE: A LETTER TO INTELLECTUALS WHO DERIDE REVOLUTIONS IN THE NAME OF
PURITY
 

I basically agree though it sounds like it was written in 1905 and
racism so overlays class struggle in Bolivia at least...that they
underplay. Julieta wrote something good that I'll send you. I'm
furious at Zibechi, Rachel Gutierrez, and Rita Segato...not to mention
Galindo and Silvia Rivera.

As a friend said this week, the streets are now where the Right goes
not the left or not only the left. My election delegation friends just
sent something through what's app about the call for a "paro nacional"
in Mexico on Wednesday by the Right. Talk about a paro light.

We are reconvening our "Protest" seminar/action group...Chile!!!
blinding people, how brutal, at least 200; and Bolivia is
heartbreaking....what a time.

Margaret Cerullo

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If you're against Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia or any country that
proclaims itself and does it's best to be socialist as opposed to
proclaiming itself 'National Socialist, you're truly be damned.
Capitalism has had   a few hundred years to work  out it it's many
faults with no  good result, but the second, the freaking second, a
new socialist government with a completely new and humanistic agenda
makes a few mistakes, and almost always because of sanctions, military
pressure, et cetera and  if you need me to elaborate, please 'shang
ke"  (look it up!|} 

Anyway, we leftists are too eager to criticize when what we need to do
is:  yeah, I'm not sure that's the right way to  go, but I'm more
than ready to sit down with you who are of like heart and mind and
work it out. Come on! We're old, but our sons, daughters, and
grandchildren? We must. It's not us, it's for the children, 

all the best, kwai i dian'r leng jing, 

Mike Liston

RE: REPRESSIVE VIOLENCE IS SWEEPING BOLIVIA. THE ÁÑEZ REGIME MUST BE
HELD TO ACCOUNT
 

We need recognized International outside leaders to step up and help
what is rapidly becoming genocide -- Where is Michelle Bachelet, UN
High Commissioner for Human Rights?

Suzanne Prescott

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RE: HUNDREDS OF CHILEANS BLINDED BY POLICE SINCE PROTESTS BEGAN
 

How vicious is this? Compare Israel’s recent actions and their
deliberate kneecappings at the Gaza demonstrations and elsewhere. The
resultant dependency this creates is a kind of collective punishment.
Filthy.

Andy Bateman

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this is what the Indian state pioneered in Kashmir

Neil Rogall

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RE: MEDICAID FUNDING SLASHED IN U.S. TERRITORIES
 

Saludos desde Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. When will the U.S. liberal and
left organizations start calling us by the rightful name of colonies?
The U.S. has 5 colonies that not only in Medicare but in a bunch of
other situations and programs it calls "territories". If there is one
thing that Maria and the Trump administration has taught us in Puerto
Rico is that we are a COLONY of the U.S. 

Please be truthful and call us what we are. And No the colonial
problem will Not be solved be by statehood. It will only worsen. We
have studied the plight of the Native Americans on their reservations.
Gracias por su atencion,

Mary Anne Merrill- Ramirez

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The USA territories, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands,
have no voting representation in the Congress, and no vote for
President. For medical care, we depend on the whim of Congress, and
the hand-outs are significantly less than to the states. This year we
go back to an old allotment formula that will cripple healthcare in
the territories.

Philip Specht

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Asking for more money is a short-term hole. What are we going to do
with the root of the problem

Brenda López De Victoria

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They pay taxes, they should have the same rights.

Mary Bang

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Is there any evidence that all of these cuts to social programs have
reduced the federal deficit?

Robert Supansic

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I know I see the deterioration in my people. I live in a territory -
Puerto Rico. Not even the funds for hurricane Maria reconstruction
have arrived 2 years later. He is lying - not even half of the money.
We still have people living under FEMA blue traps. He is playing with
health, education and living conditions of US citizens 

Gloria Medina

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Remember now they have to cut social programs to replenish the big tax
cuts trump gave his millionaire friends.

Alba Grace Pereira Medina

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That's a fact they are cutting back on everything.

Carmen Roman

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We are second class citizens. No right to vote for the president but
in the event of a major conflict we can be drafted. It’s a shame for
mainland Americans to have second class citizens.

Elias Bou Gauthier

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RE: THE WHISTLEBLOWERS OF THE MY LAI MASSACRE
 

It was a horrible massacre and the true heroes were morally massacred
by their superiors and many Americans. What happened in My Lai is a
stain on the American Army but more specifically of the officers who
ordered their men to murder unarmed civilians including women,
children and babies.

Aida Rivera

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There is a history of presidential criminals and whistleblowers. Nixon
declared that the chief My Lai perpetrator was “probably a good
soldier ... getting a bum rap.” He ordered a secret task force to
undermine press stories of the massacre.

Philip

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Yep. I remember this tragic incident. Today Drumpf would had granted
Caley the Medal of Honor.

CG Lausell

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RE: WERE OTHER HUMANS THE FIRST VICTIMS OF THE SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION?
 

Mr. Longrich is a paleontologist and seems to know his stuff. But he
misses the mark on population doubling every 25 years by citing
Malthus as a link. This is not the case, with research that indicates
people have always regulated their populations. See Death, Sex, and
Fertility: Population Regulation in Preindustrial and Developing
Societies by Harris & Ross. This might just be a problem of a research
specialist speaking too broadly about the larger canvas of human
issues. As a political left enterprise, 

xxxxxx needs to be a little more discriminating in its science posts
on the human condition. Mr. Longrich's view of the human past would be
embraced by the gun loving right or strong defense folks. That's fine
if its good science but Mr. Longrich overstates the case about past
human culture and misses much knowledge to the contrary of his thesis.

Chuck Willer

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Notice the racist nomenclature used to dub early African human group
with

racist "Rhodes" name!

John Woodford

RE: RUTHLESS QUOTAS AT AMAZON ARE MAIMING EMPLOYEES

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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Don't buy from Amazon people! (if you can help it...I bought a book
from Haymarket books (independent bookstore) and it came from
Amazon!).

Abby Fuller

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Amazon Sells Clothes From Factories Other Retailers Blacklist
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After a deadly 2013 factory collapse, most big U.S. apparel companies
agreed to steer clear of dangerous plants in Bangladesh. Not Amazon.

By Justin Scheck, Jon Emont and Alexandra Berzon

Oct. 23, 2019
Wall Street Journal
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Steven Biel

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