Cedric's Big Mix

Monday, June 20, 2022

Pat answers from Kamala Harris?

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

IN AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW, VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS SPOKE WITH THESE REPORTERS -- MUST CREDIT BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S BIG MIX -- ABOUT THE STATE OF THE INTERNET. WHAT FOLLOWS IS AN UNEDITED TRANSCRIPT.

V.P. HARRIS: WELL THANK YOU FOR FINALLY GETTING AROUND TO INTERVIEWING ME. YOU KNOW PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN ISN'T THE ONLY ONE WORKING IN THIS WHITE HOUSE. AND I AM A LIVING, BREATHING PERSON. I AM NOT A ROBOT. I HAVE NOT BEEN PROGRAMMED WITH A STREAM OF PAT RESPONSES. I AM NOT A ROBOT. IF SOMEONE TELLS YOU I AM A ROBOT, THEY ARE WRONG. I AM NOT A ROBOT. I AM A LIVING, BREATHING PERSON. I AM NOT A ROBOT.

US: YES, VICE PRESIDENT, WE WANTED TO SPEAK TO YOU ABOUT SPOKE ABOUT THE EMPOWERMENT THE INTERNET CAN PROVIDE.

VP: AT THE CEO SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS, YES. I ATTENDED AND SPOKE. AS A PERSON, NOT AS A ROBOT. I AM NOT A ROBOT.

US: YOU USED AN EXAMPLE OF HOW A WOMAN IN HONDURAS, RURAL HONDURAS, COULD BE EMPOWERED. IT CAN EMPOWER AND IT CAN HARM. LAST WEEK, THE WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCED A NEW TASK FORCE THAT WOULD BE EXAMINING "CONNECTIONS BETWEEN ONLINE HARASSMENT, MASS SHOOTINGS AND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND MEMBERS OF THE LGBT COMMUNITY."

VP: CORRECT AND I AM HEADING THAT TASK FORCE. IT IS AN IMPORTANT JOB AND WOULD NOT BE HANDED OVER TO A ROBOT. WHY DO YOU ASK?

US: IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE MAKING THE INTERNET SAFER -- A TASK WE THINK IS IMPOSSIBLE AND WILL ULTIMATELY DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD -- WHY DON'T YOU BAN REGISTERED SEX OFFENDERS FROM SOCIAL MEDIA. LIKE SCOTT PIG RITTER. THREE TIMES ARRESTED, CONVICTED AND SENT TO PRISON AND NOW A REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER. HE ATTEMPTED TO HOOK UP WITH UNDERAGE GIRLS AND HE UTITLIZED THE INTERNET FOR THAT. BUT NOW, NOT ONLY DO PEOPLE LIKE JIMMY DORE BRING HIM ON HIS SHOW, HE ALSO JUST STARTED HIS OWN SHOW ON YOUTUBE. AT THE VERY LEAST, SHOULDN'T HIS APPEARANCES AND YOUTUBE CHANNEL AND TWITTER FEED COME WITH A WARNING THAT HE IS A REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER.

VP: WELL. AGAIN, THIS IS ABOUT THE FACT THAT YOUR VOICE, YOUR EXPERIENCCE, YOUR TRUTH, CANNOT BE SUPPRESSED AND IT MUST BE HEARD, RIGHT? I -- AT SOME POINT -- YOU KNOW -- WE ARE GOING TO THE BORDER. WE'VE BEEN TO THE BORDER. SO THIS WHOLE -- THIS WHOLE -- THIS WHOLE THING ABOUT THE BORDER. WE'VE BEEN TO THE BORDER. WE'VE BEEN TO THE BORDER.

US: HUH?

VP: UKRAINE IS A COUNTRY IN EUROPE. IT EXISTS NEXT TO ANOTHER COUNTRY CALLED RUSSIA. RUSSIA IS A BIGGER COUNTRY. RUSSIA IS A POWERFUL COUNTRY. RUSSIA DECIDED TO INVADE AQ SMALLER COUNTRY CALLE DUKRAINE. SO BASICALLY THAT'S WRONG.

US: OKAY, UH, WHAT ABOUT THE SCOTT RITTER ISSUE?

VP: WHEN WE TALK ABOUT OUR CHILDREN -- I KNOW FOR THIS GROUP, WE ALL BELIEVE THAT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE CHILDREN OF THE COMMUNITY, THEY ARE A CHILDREN OF THE COMMUNITY.

US: VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS, ARE YOU OKAY?

VP: YES AND I AM NOT A ROBOT. I AM A LIVING, BREATHING HUMAN BEING. I AM NOT A ROBOT. THIS IS ESPECIALLY TRUE WHEN IT COMES TO THE CLIMATE CRISIS, WHICH IS WHY WE WILL WORK TOGETHER AND CONTINUE TO WORK TOGETHER TO ADDRESS THESE ISSUES, TO TACKLE THESE CHALLENGES, AND TO WORK TOGETHER AS WE CONTINUE TO WORK, OPERATING FROM THE NEW NORMS, RULES AND AGREEMENTS THAT WE WILL CONVENT TO WORK TOGETHER ON TO GALVANIZE GLOBAL ACTION. WITH THAT, I THANK YOU ALL. THIS IS A MATTER OF URGEN PRIORITY FOR ALL OF US, AND I KNOW WE WILL WORK ON THIS TOGETHER.

SUDDENLY, THERE WAS A WHIRRING AND A BUZZING. WITH A JOLT AND A JERK, VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS TURNED TO THE SIDE AND WITH A BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-BEEP BACKED UP BEFORE SUDDENLY WHIZZING AND WHIRLING OFF TOWARDS THE OVAL.

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

The persecution of Julian Assange continues. Oscar Grenfell (WSWS) reports:

On Friday, British Home Secretary Priti Patel announced that she has approved WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States. Assange’s family, including his wife, Stella Moris, immediately declared that they would fight the decision, including through a further British legal appeal.

If Assange is extradited, he faces 18 charges under the Espionage Act and 175 years imprisonment for publishing what the American government and the British courts acknowledge was true information exposing US foreign policy.

When it comes to Ukraine, the US and its allies continuously claim that they are defending democracy against Russian “authoritarianism.” On the basis of these assertions, the Biden administration has funneled tens of billions of dollars in weaponry to the Ukrainian government, in what has become a US-NATO proxy war against Russia.

In the Asia-Pacific, Washington and its allies similarly assert that they are defending “freedom” in opposition to Chinese “autocracy.”

The persecution of Assange exposes all of these statements as complete lies used to justify a program of aggressive militarism and war.

In the heart of Britain, Assange, a journalist, is imprisoned in a maximum-security prison without charge, while the US seeks his extradition for exposing its war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Assange’s legal and democratic rights have been continuously attacked. There is clear evidence that the US oversaw a massive spying operation against Assange, while he was a political refugee in Ecuador London’s embassy. This included illegal surveillance of his privileged communications with lawyers.

Last September, Yahoo! News reported that in 2017, the Trump administration and the CIA discussed kidnapping or assassinating Assange in London. The article was based on the statements of 30 former US officials.

Outgoing United Nations Rapporteur Nils Melzer has repeatedly branded the US and British treatment of Assange as torture. Hundreds of doctors have demanded Assange’s freedom and warned of his deteriorating health.

Despite all of this, the Biden administration has continued the prosecution and the British courts have facilitated it. The contradiction between the supposed US-led campaign for “freedom” in Ukraine, and its determination to lock Assange away, is a staggering display of imperialist hypocrisy.

This persecution of Julian is about silencing the press. Monday April 5, 2010, WIKILEAKS released US military video of a July 12, 2007 assault in Iraq. 12 people were killed in the assault including two Reuters journalists Namie Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh. That is when the persecution begins. It was an intimidation carried out by multiple presidents starting with Barack Obama, continuing with Donald Trump and now the baton for killing the press has been handed off to Joe Biden. This has had the effect of scaring off many traditional news outlets. They once partnered with Julian to report and now they act as though they've never heard of him. Saving their own asses? They may think that. If they do, they're dead wrong. An attack on Julian is an attack on all. And if the attack on Julian is not loudly and publicly rebuked, you can be sure that next up will be THE WASHINGTON POST or THE MIAMI HERALD or some other institution -- despite the US Constitution -- the same one that's being ignored in this attack on Julian.

Kevin Gosztola (SHADOWPROOF) explains that Patel and the Home Office made the decision that press freedom is "an act capable of 'far more serious damage' than traditional espionage." Max Blumenthal Tweeted:

Mainstream US reporters could have led a drum beat for freeing Assange but most kept silent or defamed him as a digital terrorist and/or Russian asset. The US msm has thus colluded in one the worst assaults on a free press of our time and share responsibility for his extradition.

12:00 PM · Jun 17, 2022

Glenn Greenwald (SUBSTACK) notes, "An extremely unusual unanimity among press freedom and civil liberties groups was formed in early 2021 to urge the Biden administration to cease its prosecution of Assange, but Biden officials — despite spending the Trump years masquerading as press freedom advocates — ignored them (an interview conducted last week with Stella Assange by my husband, the Brazilian Congressman David Miranda, on Brazil's Press Freedom Day, regarding the latest developments and toll this has taken on the Assange family, can be seen here)." Saturday, Oscar Grenfell (WSWS) reported:

Meanwhile, El Pais reported last week that Britain is obstructing the Spanish National High Court from examining other allegations of illegal spying on Assange’s legal team.

Taken together, the various abuses to which Assange has been subjected, and the protracted character of his persecution, brand it as one of the political crimes of the century.

Speaking at yesterday’s press conference, Assange’s wife Stella Moris said the British legal process was being “used to prolong Julian’s suffering.” Britain, she said, “should not be engaging in persecution on behalf of a foreign power that is out for revenge… that foreign power committed crimes which Julian put into the sunlight.”

Moris vowed, “we’re going to fight this,” including through a final appeal within the British set-up. Robinson explained that this would focus on the political nature of the prosecution, its contravention of the British-US extradition treaty and the various abuses, including the CIA plots against Assange.

Together with Moris and WikiLeaks, press groups, journalists’ associations and international rights groups warned that Patel’s decision represents a frontal onslaught on core rights that will be deployed against others.

American whistleblower, Edward Snowden, who exposed mass NSA spying, tweeted: “Hard to believe, but it looks real. Every serious press freedom group in the world has protested this. It is an appalling symbol of how far the British and American governments’ commitment to human rights has declined.”

Well-known Australian investigative journalist John Pilger posted: “Home Secretary Priti Patel has approved the extradition of Julian #Assange to an American hellhole. A new appeal will now challenge the political rottenness of British ‘justice.’ Either we raise our voices as never before, or our silence colludes in the death of an heroic man.”

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"THIS JUST IN! JOE BIDEN RESPONDS TO HIS CRITICS!"

Sunday, June 12, 2022

Joe Biden responds to the speculation

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

RECENT CALLS FOR JOE BIDEN NOT TO SEEK RE-ELECTION AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES HAD THESE REPORTERS WONDERING: WHAT DOES JOE THINK?

SO LYING TO KARINE JEAN-PIERRE THAT JOE WAS EXPECTING US, WE BARGED INTO THE OVAL MERE MOMENTS AGO AND CONFRONTED JOE WITH THIS QUESTION, "MR. PRESIDENT, PEOPLE ARE SAYING YOU CAN'T RUN AGAIN?''

LOOKING UP FROM HIS BOWL OF QUAKER OATS AND PRUNES, THE PRESIDENT SAT ASIDE THE MORNING PAPER HE'D BEEN STUDYING THE LATEST MARMADUKE COMIC IN AND THOUGHT FOR A MOMENT BEFORE RESPONDING.

"YOU KNOW, BOYS," HE SAID SLOWLY. "THEY'RE PROBABLY RIGHT. BUT, ON A GOOD DAY, I CAN STILL WALK."

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Kit knows nothing and he sure enjoys demonstrating that.

Kit declares, "I'm smelling BS here."

Well, sweetie, get your head out your ass.

You'll find the smell will lessen and a good shower will wash it right off you.

We did the roundtable from hell for the gina & krista round-robin. It went on past 1:00 EST. Most people went to sleep after -- not Gina and Krista who are assembling the round-robin and not Ava and I who had to write our piece for this week's edition. I then thought I'd go to sleep. But then I saw e-mails about Kit's video. Looking at the title, I thought, "Oh, he's going to take on THE WASHINGTON POST."

No, he wants to attack Felicia. And he wants you to know that Jimmy Dore has too.

You know what Jimmy did to Ana of THE YOUNG TURKS wasn't harassment. And we said that in real time, we said it here and we said it at THIRD. But Jimmy is a sexist.

Bob Somerby is as well.

And the reason they're sexists is because they love to attack women. Nothing gets them more excited than ripping apart a woman.

Sadly, it's true of Kit too. Watch him smack his hands together in glee.

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Monday, May 23, 2022

Joe's living in his own little world

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN USED TO BE PRESIDENT JOE BLUNDER BUT HIS GOOFS AREN'T SO FUNNY NOW TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. STORMING THE WHITE HOUSE EARLIER TONIGHT, WE POSED AS EMERGENCY CHOCOLATE CHIP DELIVERY AND WERE WAIVED RIGHT THROUGH TO THE OVAL WHERE AN EXCITED JOE GREETED US WITH, "WHERE'S THE ICE CREAM!!!"

WE READ THE FOLLOWING TO HIM:

President Biden’s approval hit a new low on Monday, according to a NewsNation/Decision Desk HQ poll.

Fifty-seven percent of registered voters said they disapproved of how Biden has handled the presidency, with 40 percent saying they “strongly disapprove” and 17 percent saying they “somewhat disapprove.”

"WOW," JOE RESPONDED, "57% DISAPPROVE? SO THAT MEANS 67% OF AMERICANS APPROVE OF ME! YEA!"

WE WASTED 10 MINUTES ATTEMPTING TO EXPLAIN BASIC MATH BEFORE WE BAILED ON THAT FAILED EFFORTS.

WE TRIED AGAIN BY READING THIS TO HIM:

Amid soaring inflation, record-high gas prices and increasing economic uncertainty, President Biden is faced with the lowest approval ratings of his presidency, according to a new poll.

The NewsNation/Decision Desk HQ poll shows 57% of people disapprove of Biden’s job performance with 40% saying they “strongly disapprove” and 17% saying they “somewhat disapprove.”

WAVING HIS HAND IS DISMISSAL, THE PRESIDENT INSISTED POLLS DO NOT MATTER, "THINK ABOUT IT, I JUST DELIVERED 40 BILLION MORE TO URKAINE. YOU THINK THEY'RE NOT ALL GOING TO VOTE FOR ME IN 2024?"

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Friday, Iraqi poet Muzaffar al-Nawab passed away.

World-renowned Iraqi Arab communist poet Muzaffar al-Nawab died on May 20. He was beloved by Arab masses for language that spoke to peasants & workers, and for brilliant takedowns of corrupt Arab regimes, U.S. imperialism, and Israeli colonization & occupation.

#مظفر_النواب

arlos Latuff and 9 others

7:13 PM · May 22, 2022

WIKIPEDIA notes:

Al-Nawab was born in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1934 into an aristocratic Shi'ite family of Indian origin that appreciated art, poetry and music.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] He showed a talent for poetry from an early age. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Baghdad and became a teacher, but was expelled for political reasons in 1955 and remained unemployed for three years, at a difficult time for his family who was suffering financial hardship.^[7]

He joined the Iraqi Communist Party while still at college, and was tortured by the Hashemite Government. After the Iraqi revolution in 1958 which overthrew the monarchy, he was appointed an inspector at the Ministry of Education. In 1963 he was forced to leave Iraq to neighbouring Iran, after the intensification of competition between the nationalists and the communists who were exposed to prosecution and strict observation by the ruling regime. He was arrested and tortured by the Iranian secret police, before being forcibly repatriated to the Iraqi government. An Iraqi court handed down a death sentence against him for one of his poems, later commuted to life imprisonment. He escaped prison by digging a tunnel and fled to the marshlands, where he joined a communist faction that sought to overthrow the government.^[8]

Known for his powerful revolutionary poems and scathing invectives against Arab dictators,^[9] he lived in exile in many countries, including Syria, Egypt, Lebanon and Eritrea, where he stayed with the Eritrean rebels, before returning to Iraq in 2011.^[1] Before he returned to Iraq, he had been essentially stateless being able to travel only on Libyan travel documents. The first complete Arabic language edition of his works was published in London in 1996 by "Dar Qanbar"^[10] He died on 20 May 2022 in the University Hospital Sharjah in the UAE.^[11]

JYforeal Tweets:

Muzaffar Al-Nawab was imprisoned and tortured by the Iraqi monarchy for associating with the growing Iraqi Communsit Party. Muzaffar always stood firm in his revolutionary ideals

We mourn the loss of a great Iraqi poet.

5:10 AM · May 21, 2022

GRADE SAVER notes:

Muzaffar Al-Nawab is a celebrated Iraqi poet. He was born in 1934 to a wealthy family in Baghdad. After studying literature and becoming a teacher, he began to associate with the Communist movement in Iraq. For this he was imprisoned and tortured by the oppressive Hashemite regime; however, following, the overthrow of the Iraqi monarchy in 1958, Al-Nawab was offered a position at the Iraqi Ministry of Education. As political tensions continued between nationalists and communists, Al-Nawab was forced to flee Iraq because of his communist allegiances in 1963. He was arrested again, this time for writing poetry critical of the Iraqi Republic. He was able to escape prison and continued writing dissident poetry.

Despite, or perhaps because of his political troubles, Al-Nawab's reputation grew steadily in the 1960s. His work spread across the Arab world and was as inspiration to those standing against political regimes. As he writes in "v-Letter-Word," his work was seen as a rallying call to all those that wished to "speak out frankly of your reality." Further expanding his notoriety, many musicians set music to Al-Nawab's work. After his exile from Iraq he continued to move around Arab countries, including Egypt and Lebanon. Due to the controversial nature of his work, it was not published officially until 1996, however much of has become available on the internet. Still, it is incredibly difficult to find in printed form and many bootlegged copies circulate, though an official poetry collection was again released in 2010. Al-Nawab returned to Iraq in 2011 where he has been reportedly suffering from Alzheimer's.

He was buried Saturday. Sebastian Usher Tweets:

#Iraq : Funeral of renowned poet Muzaffar al-Nawab in Baghdad - famed for his revolutionary ideals & revolutionary use of language #مظفر_النواب #الْعِرَاق

4:00 AM · May 21, 2022

AFP adds:

He last visited Iraq in 2011, when he was received in grand pomp by the presidency. Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi called Friday for his body to be repatriated by ministerial aircraft.

The poems of Nawab, who was unmarried and had no children, were often evoked during the autumn 2019 wave of youth-led anti-corruption protests that swept Iraq.

"Why did Muzaffar al-Nawab die in the Emirates?... Because you've governed Iraq for 19 years, because Baghdad hospitals do not treat patients, because the country is not livable," Iraqi journalist Omar al-Janabi tweeted.

Yes, his work and life spoke to The October Revolution. So what happened was no surprised except for people who don't have time to pay attetnion. Desperate to hold onto his post as Prime Minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi tried to turn the day into a photo op for himself and the youth weren't having it. MIDDLE EAST EYE reports:

Iraqi Prime Minister Moustafa al-Kadhimi was forced to leave the funeral of the country's renowned communist poet Muzaffar al-Nawab on Saturday after a section of mourners began chanting slogans of contempt at his delegation.

Sinan Mahmoud and Amr Mostafa (THE NATIONAL) explain:

The funeral procession started peacefully at the Association of the Iraqi Writers in Baghdad’s Karrada neighbourhood after the wooden casket containing the poet's body arrived from the airport.

A few minutes later, some of the mourners started shouting slogans against the prime minister and Iraq's political elite.

Waving Iraqi flags and pumping their fists in the air, they shouted "The people want to bring down the regime," and "Oil is for the people not for the thieves."

The chaos forced the pallbearers to return Al Nawab's casket to the hearse and speed away with Mr Al Kadhimi's convoy.

Some of the mourners pelted the convoy with stones, bottles of water and shoes as it left.

We'll wind down with this from Nancy Hanover (WSWS):

The children of Flint, Michigan have been doubly ravaged—by lead poisoning and more than two years of SARS-CoV-2 infections and deaths. Now in the sixth wave, COVID cases in Flint’s Genesee County are rising by 69 percent, and despite ongoing outbreaks, schools remain open face-to-face. At the same time, a lawsuit now alleges that the city’s young people “acquired brain injuries” due to ingestion of lead.

The contamination of Flint’s water at the hands of General Motors, Governor Rick Snyder, and the entire city, state and national Democratic and Republican establishment exposed nearly 30,000 schoolchildren to lead, a neurotoxin that attacks developing brains and nervous systems.

The current class action lawsuit, one of many, targets engineering consultants contracted by the city (Veolia North America and Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam) during the 2014 switch to Flint River water. It has brought to light some of the devastating and widespread educational and mental health challenges the city’s children and their teachers face.

Testifying on May 10 and 12, neuropsychologist Mira Krishnan provided evidence that Flint children are suffering brain injuries due to being subjected to lead-in-water.

Dr. Krishnan, a specialist in neurodevelopmental disorders and impacts of complex trauma, examined four children, who she said exhibited hyperactivity, impulsivity and weaknesses in various subject matters in the classroom. Such problems can amplify over a lifetime. One of the children, she said, showed impairments that “very rarely would be seen in a random sampling of children from the community ... who didn’t have some sort of brain injury.”

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