Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Our Political World.

 


The breaking news is that the Special Counsel Jack Smith has sent Donald Trump a target letter. That means that it is most likely that Trump may face indictment over the 2020 terrorist attack in the U.S. Capitol. Many people have been interviewed by the Department of Justice. The Special Counsel is researching about the Trump promotion of the lie that the election of 2020 was stolen. Kevin McCarthy continues to lie and believe that the target letter is about a political witch-hunt. The reality is that Trump tried his best to illegally steal the 2020 election, and he agitated a crowd in trying to overthrow the peaceful transition of power on January 6, 2021. The federal prosecutors involved in the target letter want to make their actions clear. This is a sign that the investigation is approaching the end. Trump has already been indicted twice before, being the first former President in American history being charged with a felony. Judge Aileen Cannon listened to both sides and most decide when the classified documents trial must take place. The Judge told prosecutors that a December 2023 date may be too rushed. The Special counsel has interviewed people from many battleground states, as Trump tried to steal the election in many sophisticated ways.


The No Labels hosted their deceptive meeting in New Hampshire. They want third party Presidential bids. Joe Lieberman lied and said that the Democratic must promote a more moderate platform when real social change was never headed by moderates but by revolutionaries and progressives from Malcolm X to Ella Baker. Biden himself is a moderate on many issues, but that isn't good enough for No Labels. They want the whole country to embrace centrism which is ludicrous as people have the right to believe in what we want. We have seen this game before. No Labels have ballot access in four states so far. No Labels always complain, but they ignore the threat of Trumpism against our democracy. So, No Labels is funded by many corporate interests who desire the status quo and aid Big Pharma and Big Oil interests. That is why Joe Manchin has allied with No Labels. Some in No Labels equate Joe Biden as extreme as Donald Trump which is silly. Trump tried to overthrow the government involving the 2020 election. No Labels is filled with cowards by hiding who funds them. No Labels mentions nothing on climate change or policies on how to deal with it. They believe in total deregulation. So, we are not deceived at No Labels's propaganda. I'm disappointed that civil rights leader Benjamin Chavis is part of No Labels. Chavis knows better.


The heat done causing record temperatures is found in the Deep South, the West, and in other places of the world (like in Southern Europe as far north as places in France). There are some researchers who want to use a lighter paint in trying to cool down the Earth. The problem is that some believe you need to cover at least 1 percent of the Earth's surface with the paint to make an impact. Jeremy Munday, a professor electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Davis, he believes that this amount will allow the amount of light being bounced back into space and would reduce the amount of heat being absorbed by the planet enough to stabilize temperatures.



Herzog visited Biden today. Netanyahu has the most right-wing government in Israeli history. That is why Israelis are protesting in Tel Aviv over Netanyahu's plan to seek to disrupt the judiciary system in Israel. There is a strong public opposition to Netanyahu's policies in Israel indeed. Itamar Ben Gvir admired Meir Kahane (who was a racist towards Arabic people). The reality is that occupation is anti-democratic. In the West Bank, Palestinians must have a military approval to travel to and fro. Far right extremists want total expulsion of Palestinians from the West Bank. The Israeli government wants more control and settlements in the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip is totally occupied. This has been going on for decades, and America funds this reality militarily. There is no long-term benefit for Israel and Palestine to have permanent occupation and injustice against Palestinians. The only solution is for Israelis and Palestinians to have total equality and justice irrespective of their color including the ending of the system of occupation.


The strike continues among 76,000 writers and actors in America. The common misconceptions is that all of the writers and actors are making a considerable amount of money. That isn't the case at all. They represent member of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA). The strike is about fighting for just compensation as a product of hard work. Many working-class movements are getting stronger. The American entertainment industry are among the largest U.S. exports. Film culture is very international. Many actors in Canadian desire justice too. In the United Kingdom, cast members of Christopher Nolan's biographical film of Oppenheimer have walked out of the film's premiere in London. U.S. production companies have executives making 20-30 million dollars per year which is a lot of money, but regular working writers and actors in many cases struggle to make ends meet. The growth of AI is concerning as AI can replace movies at will if the technology evolves rapidly in the next 10 years. When a studio executive said in Deadline anonymously that the entertainment companies want to drag the strike out for months until union members lost their homes and apartments, strikers were even angrier at such a cruel comment. At the end of the day, the strike is a historic reminder that large corporations and Wall Street interests should never have carte blanche via fiat to mistreat any worker. Workers of any background deserve equity and full economic rights comprehensively.


By Timothy




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