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Comment by robert alpert on November 19, 2011 at 3:16pm

re  goodman  she may just be dumb  but  her pal cole is an intelligence  asset  seen  that documented

 

Comment by robert alpert on November 19, 2011 at 3:14pm

oh  women's lib can be  good  wapc  in  uk  took it to the  cops but in the us it  piggy backed off the  civil rights  movement  and had been recist  as  far back as  frederic  douglass and susan b antony later for them--immigrant   rights--hmmm ok if Black people  come first--otherwise u  are just increasing the labor  force and gertting a  race to the  bottom immigrant rights--  well  the best thing say  for  mexicans is  to stay  and overthrow their  rotten gov-- if our gov  is  for immigtant  rights  makes you think if our  gov is  for sanything  makes  you think

Comment by robert alpert on November 19, 2011 at 3:08pm

to  whoever dissed  the green movement--i  don't know  anything  about   except  it has a  video of  cyntthia  mcKinna  yelling Shame on John  Lewis  for supporting   funding  for  bombing libya--now it  was a good  video whoever they  are--and John Lewis  apologized  as  great men do--27  beatings  near  death in alabama--no i  could never yell shame on john lewis  though his  policy  on palestine is  just  aweful  but  maybe  folks  could  convince him to  change his  mind--  as for  rest of  post  gay  rights is  a  reactionary  globalist  movement  (I  use the  word fascist  carefully)  but  how  are you gonna  convince people of that--again  I  don't much care  if  people  marrie  turtles but anyone who watch those gay men  push black folk  out of manhatten  ain't no way I support it I hasve posted almost the same thing on my fb  page somewhere--I  think the hijacking  started in  72

Comment by Nota Khan on September 21, 2011 at 2:15am

@Jessica6

"A functioning BS detector" is the key! And your's seems to be working just fine ;-)

This is most apparent to me with the 'green' movement, which is more fascist than 'left' or socialist or any other 'ist'. Followed by gay rights (not that I'm against such a concept - but hear me out!) and immigrant rights.

My pet theory for the past few years now is that the left has been slowly hijacked over the years - away from an anti-corporate stance, and particularly away from a pro-labor stance, largely from within.

Bingo! Everything -- every "movement" that you hear about is "hijacked" is something you can take to the bank; every "anti-establishment" writer/leader you will find has sold his soul to one bidder or another  (see this  for an example or two). Fully agree with you on the GW and it was borne out by ClimateGate' and Cap-and-trade; and immigration is of course 100% a tool to depress labor costs just like the "Women's Lib" movement was used in the 50s (but let's not blame the immigrants -- they are just trying to survive; direct all anger at the lawmakers and the big farms and corporations pushing those "reforms"). 

 

 

Comment by Jessica6 on September 20, 2011 at 4:43pm

That' s a really great chart. I admit though, I get most of my news not from 'alt-media' but from friends and message boards and a few other sources, along with a functioning BS detector.

In particular there are a lot of Lefty sites, even blogs that in many respects aren't that left-wing, at least in the Arthur Scargill cloth-cap stripe. This is most apparent to me with the 'green' movement, which is more fascist than 'left' or socialist or any other 'ist'. Followed by gay rights (not that I'm against such a concept - but hear me out!) and immigrant rights.

My pet theory for the past few years now is that the left has been slowly hijacked over the years - away from an anti-corporate stance, and particularly away from a pro-labor stance, largely from within.

Think for instance about global warming, which I've thought for a while is a complete fraud. Most of the sites  and media and pundits supporting it are seen as Left-wing, while 'denialism' is viewed as Conservative or Right wing. This dichotomy is intentional.

Same goes for immigration and gay rights. Splinter the Left in to various factions, claim opponents are right wing and ignore labor altogether.

Gay rights advocates, for example, tend to be higher-income than average, and more likely to favor the status quo when it comes to the economy. Anti-immigrants are cast as racist, when the reality is that immigration is handy tool for tptb to depress labor costs.

Green measures are always in the form of taxes and fees or subsidies to companies, not in fining corporations that pollute, erecting trade barriers to companies that take advantage of laxer laws elsewhere, etc.

Welfare entitlements are also cast as a 'left wing issue' but who loves welfare the most? Those at the top! They buy off the masses at the bottom who would otherwise revolt, those in the middle pay for it all, and those at the top laugh to themselves as they deflect middle-class rage at those worse off than they.