Right-wing movements in France, Great Britain, Hungary, and elsewhere do not lack domestic political support, and there is no reason to think they would not exist without Russian backing. In the same vein, Trump’s victory here is owed first and foremost to the Republican Party and its sponsors, to all the usual suspects we have been observing with revulsion for decades. In the context of domestic U.S. politics, Putin is not the dog; he’s the tail.
Read the whole thing:
Russia to Our Right
Trump’s entanglement with Russia will pull the United States even further away from providing basic welfare
His modus operandi is to start with a slightly off-base comment, and then when challenged, degenerate into scatological and or childish ways to incite the commentariat. When banned, he attempts to slide back in by using fake names and email addresses.
One particular new wrinkle is impersonation. Travis J. Schwochert looks through approved comments and then scours the internet for an email address that might match that commenter.
Travis J. Schwochert may be a classic troll: someone who just gets off on causing chaos in a commenting community. According to my sources, he's also used the 'nyms Soren Kongstad and Lars Ørnsted (both of whom are probably real, upstanding Scandinavian citizens.)
Ari Ne'eman, the founder of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) s a policy wonk, specifically disability policy. He has a blog, , Sometimes a Lion, covering topics he finds interesting.
The latest article is on the Trump administration and disabled individuals: Watch the Appointments. His point is that policy is actually made an executed far down the administrative ladder, and who is appointed is critical. Relative to Trump,
A Trump Administration that believes that vaccines cause autism insults Autistic people and can do tremendous harm to public health. But at the end of the day, defending vaccine policy is not a core interest of disability rights advocates. There are others for that job, and compared to other areas Trump is engaged in, it is not even a top five concern. But once we take into account the “congealing of the fringe” that’s taken place in autism and developmental disability politics over the last decade, an anti-vaccine President is a much scarier prospect. After all, the people that have Trump’s ear on disability aren’t just anti-vaccine – they also hold views that promise to reverse decades of federal policy promoting inclusion and access to the community for people with disabilities.
I'm afraid what this Administration means is that we are all going to have to stup up to being policy wonks, to protect our rights and those of vulnerable individuals.
We’re observing some chin-stroking to the effect that demonstrations, even gigantic ones, will be inadequate in blocking the medley of egregious policies oozing from the White House. The fact is that there is a lot of organizing going on, some of which can be credited with producing the impressive turn-outs we have been seeing, not just in big cities but in many other locales, off the beaten track.
Please go read the rest of the post, as he lists a broad range of groups that are already organizing for change. I'm in a few.
...the hospital took a chest x-ray for pneumonia, which was negative, and they tested for both influenza and strep which were negative....
Katie exhibited all the signs of sepsis, yet no one diagnosed it.
Our message to everyone is to Think Katie Firstwhen confronted with the symptoms of sepsis. Education of healthcare workers is critical, they should know the symptoms of sepsis the same as they know heart attack symptoms.
Not two weeks after her death, the vile anti-vaccine cult started lying about her cause of death, and her family's reaction, and has not stopped or apologized. Anyone familiar with the anti-vaccine movement should not be surprised.
Posted on January 14, 2015 by Sean Adl-Tabatabai in Health
26-year-old health care worker Katie Mcquestion died days after getting a mandatory flu shot.
Her family hope that her death may act as a warning for others thinking about getting the flu shot. They hope the warning will save other people’s lives.
Out of deference to Mrs. McQuestion's family, I've made this image very small. Click to see it full size.
So who is this Sean Adl-Tabatabai person? Turns out he used to work for David "The British Royal Family are Reptilians" Icke 2,3 He has managed to monetize a lot of nonsense -- and outright lies.
The next salvo was on January 19,2015, at Mike Adams's NaturalNews, the fearmongering health profiteering website.
Out of deference to Mrs. McQuestion's family, I've made this image very small. Click to see it full size.
Woman dies of sepsis after getting flu shot; CDC claims it as flu death, urges public to get vaccinated Monday, January 19, 2015 by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer
A Wisconsin radiology technician who was recently forced by her employer to get a flu shot died just days later after contracting sepsis, according to reports.
It's true that Mrs. McQuestion was a radiology technician; every assertion after that (and the rest of the article) is a lie. According to her family, she voluntarily got the flu shot (as sensible people do), weeks before she fell ill.
Takeaway:
Don't read or link to YourNewsWire or anything published by Sean Adl-Tabatabai
My sincere and profound condolences to Katie's family, the Ceschins, and her husband and his family, the McQuestions. May her memory be a blessing to them all.
This website thinks YourNewsWire.com is a site used by the Russians to spread disinformation. I can't be bothered to research.
Why Do You Have Such Hatred Sean Adl-Tabatabai at Yournewswire.com? BY DAVID ON 14 AUGUST 2016 GMT Why do you continually shoot yourself in the foot trying (trying) to damage me? People deserve to know – what is your motivation? And who benefits?
Sean Adl-Tabatabai is a former webmaster at Davidicke.com who left years ago to start an alleged ‘alternative’ website in California called Yournewswire.com which has become notorious among serious researchers for its clickbait headlines with no sources to support the headline. Every click = money.
On February 2, 2017, Kellyanne Conway, President Trump's Counselor, was speaking about the now-rescinded ban on US entrance by residents of seven majority-Muslim countries. At one point, Conway made a reference to two Iraqi refugees whom she described as the masterminds behind “the Bowling Green massacre.” She went on to say, “Most people don’t know that because it didn’t get covered.”
I wrote about it on my Facebook page, and one of the commenters said,
But that was not it. On Friday (2/3/17) Conway explained via Twitter that it wasn't a massacre, but a plot. But even that story falls apart. She had previously given a telephone interview to Cosmopolitan. Here's what Conway claimed in unpublished portions of the Cosmopolitan interview (on January
.... two Iraqi nationals came to this country, joined ISIS, traveled back to the Middle East to get trained and refine their terrorism skills, and come back here, and were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre of taking innocent soldiers' lives away."
Two Iraqi nationals, Waad Ramadan Alwan and Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, entered the US in 2009 after rigorous vetting.
In 2010, additional information about Alwan's al-Quaida connections came to light, and the FBI planned a sting
The sting was to help Alwan procure arms to ship back to Iraq.
The Bowling Green "terrorist plot" was a sting instigated by the FBI to entrap two Iraqis, previously cleared by vetting
It did not involve plans to attack in the U.S.
Alwan and Hammadi agreed to plead guilty to supporting terrorism and admitted their al Qaeda-Iraq past. Alwan cooperated and received 40 years, while Hammadi received a life term which he is appealing.
The two men involved are in rare company; 0.0004% of Middle Eastern refugees have been arrested for similar crimes.
The FBI sting been used to support anti-refugee sentiment ever since.
Ms. Conway has a track record of mendacity in interviews. I support the move to put any interview with her on tape-delay so facts can be checked.
But in an interview with Cosmopolitan.com conducted by phone days earlier, on Sunday, Jan. 29, Conway used the same phrasing, claiming that President Barack Obama called for a temporary "ban on Iraqi refugees” after the “Bowling Green massacre.” (The quotes did not appear in either of two stories recently published on Cosmopolitan.com.) "He did, it’s a fact," she said of Obama. "Why did he do that? He did that for exactly the same reasons. He did that because two Iraqi nationals came to this country, joined ISIS, traveled back to the Middle East to get trained and refine their terrorism skills, and come back here, and were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre of taking innocent soldiers' lives away."
As you can see from the list above, Ms. Conway is not accurate
The two Iraqi nationals were al-Qaida in Irac, that is, radicalized before they arrived here
There was no return to the Middle East
Both Iraqis lied about their connection to terrorism to enter the US
But the fact that she invented the same story on two different occasions makes it doubtful that she misspoke.
So, to summarize:
The "Bowling Green Massacre" never happened and was never planned to happen
There were no masterminds.
On January 29, 2017, Kellyanne Conway referred to the "Bowling Green Massacre" in a brief TMZ interview
On January 29, 2017, Kellyanne Conway referred to the "Bowling Green Massacre" while being interviewed by Cosmopolitan
On February 2 2017, Kellyanne Conway referred to the "Bowling Green Massacre" while being interviewed
On February 3 2017, walks back the massacre, referring to the ABC News 2013 report, outlined above, which very clearly lays out the FBI sting and that the two men were not part of a vast network.
Like a lot of people, I've been a bit despondent since January 20. Yesterday I was scrolling through Twitter when I ran across a tweet from Maia Majumber (@maiamajumder):
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The tweet, and particularly the clarity of her focus, inspired me. Here's her chart as a stand-alone image:
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So I printed out her list and started building my own. I'll post it when it's done.
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