Ideology, Identity Politics, and Politico-Cultural Conflict

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The past year’s political events, especially the campaign for the presidency as it converged on a contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, have illuminated the way in which ideology, with the identity politics that springs from it, drives a dialectical process: political domination creates resentment, which feeds reaction and, on occasion, revolution against a previously entrenched ruling class and its belief system.
The various interest groups and institutions linked with the espousal of political correctness – in short, Hillary’s base – had become more and more pervasive and intrusive for fifty years or so. No doubt the members of this ideological bloc took for granted that they could, and would, only march toward greater and greater power over the populace until that glorious day when the last remnants of the old, despised social order, including the belief systems that supported it, would be crushed once and for all beneath the wheel of history that they had insisted on giving a boost lest the inexorable ‘progress’ be slowed or – perish the thought – halted.

This post was published at Lew Rockwell on December 3, 2016.

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After ISIS Machete Attack, Ohio Students Still Unable To Say The Word “Terrorist”

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Just days after ISIS claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack at Ohio State University, perpetrated by their “soldier” Abdul Razak Ali Artan, student snowflakes across the campus remain cowering in their safe spaces of denial. As Rebel Media’s Faith Goldy found, students were unable or unwilling to call the attack “terrorism” with one young man calling it a “misunderstanding.”
Presented in stunned silence…


This post was published at Zero Hedge on Dec 4, 2016.

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Putin Says Trump Is “A Smart Man”, Will Adapt To Responsibilities As “Unipolar World Model Fails”

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Following Trump’s phone call on Friday evening with the Taiwan president, which led to scathing response by the US press and diplomatic corps, both of which were shocked to see Trump threaten the “One China” status quo by taking foreign policy matters into his own hands (the same media and diplomats who were just as shocked to see Trump win the presidential election) , on Sunday morning Trump got some words of encouragement from none other than Vladimir Putin, who in an interview with Russian NTV TV, said that Trump is “a clever man” and will quickly adapt to his new responsibilities and new role as president.
“Trump was an entrepreneur and a businessman. He is already a statesman, he is the head of the United States of America, one of the world’s leading countries.”
‘The fact that Trump managed to achieve success in business, suggests that he is a smart man,’ Putin said in the NTV interview. ‘And as he is smart, that means he will fully and quite quickly be aware of a different level of responsibility. We assume that he will be acting this way,’ he added.
Putin has spoken previously of his hope that Trump will help restore U. S.-Russia relations, and analysts said he was unlikely to want to dial up anti-Western rhetoric before Trump’s inauguration in January.
“Because he achieved success in business, it suggests that he is a clever man. And if (he is) a clever man, then he will fully and quite quickly understand another level of responsibility. We assume that he will be acting from these positions,” Putin said.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Dec 4, 2016.

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Episode #163 – SUNDAY WIRE: ‘Mainstream Meltdown’ with guests Peter Lavelle, Vanessa Beeley

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Episode #163 of SUNDAY WIRE SHOW resumes this December 4, 2016 as host Patrick Henningsen brings a 3 HOURS special broadcast of LIVE power-packed talk radio on ACR…
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This week’s edition of THE SUNDAY WIRE is on the road broadcasting LIVE from the Valley of the Sun. This week host Patrick Henningsen covers this week’s top stories in the US and internationally. In the first hour we’ll cover the latest SiliconValley attack against 21st Century Wire under the pretext of supposedly countering ‘fake news.’ Then we’ll be joined by Peter Lavelle, the host of RT’s long-running political debate program CrossTalk, to discuss the post-Clinton reaction by the US establishment, and the how Washington and mainstream media are now aggressively pushing Russophobia in the US. After that, we’ll be joined by 21WIRE special contributor, Vanessa Beeley, on the ground this week in the Middle East (See Vanessa’s DONATE button, left) as she investigates the Syrian Army’s historic liberation of Syria’s East Aleppo – ending the 4 year terrorist occupation of most of the city’s eastern districts. We’ll also reveal more fraudulent western-generated propaganda images and ‘fake’ narratives like, ‘The Last Clown in Aleppo,’ as well as staged images posted by the US-UK-EU-Qatari-backed pseudo NGO known as the White Helmets who are now in meltdown mode after being roundly exposed as imposters and propagandists for the US Coalition’s failing designs on ‘regime change’ in Syria.
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Strap yourselves in and lower the blast shield – this is your brave new world…
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This post was published at 21st Century Wire on DECEMBER 4, 2016.

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Meet The Competitors In Italy’s Referendum

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Italy is finally holding its referendum on constitutional reforms. Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s proposals would reduce the powers and size of the Senate, granting the Chamber of Deputies more authority and transferring prerogatives from regional administrations to the central government in Rome. The changes would, in theory, sever the link between political instability and financial fragility in Italy. Instead, because Renzi has promised to step down if the Italian people vote against the reforms, opposition parties such as the Five Star Movement and the Northern League – and even some members of Renzi’s center-left Democratic Party – have cast the referendum as a chance to force the prime minister and his government to resign.
Even if voters reject the reforms and Renzi resigns, early elections for a new government are not a given. Italian President Sergio Mattarella could ask Parliament to form a new government and appoint a prime minister, probably with the goal of introducing political and economic reforms. The Five Star Movement has said it would not support a caretaker government, but the Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner still control enough seats in Parliament to appoint a new prime minister, provided that they stay united.
Moreover, opinion polls show that the Five Star Movement’s popularity is close to that of the Democratic Party, giving it incentive to avoid early elections that could unseat it. In a potential runoff election between the Democratic Party and the Five Star Movement, all opposition parties could side with the protest party to propel it to victory. This prospect might impel the government to change the rules while it still can. Lorenzo Guerini, the deputy secretary of the Democratic Party, has said that in case of a defeat in the referendum, the party would try to modify the country’s electoral laws so that new elections could be held in summer 2017.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Dec 4, 2016.

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Angry Dems Play The Blame Game Over Hillary Loss As the Infighting Escalates

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Angry democrats are lashing out at anyone and anything they think contributed to Hillary’s loss while vehemently igoring the simple fact that Hillary, and her many scandals, were the unilateral reason for their crushing defeat. Be that as it may, it is far easier to blame some combination of Bernie Sanders, Putin, James Comey, “Fake News”, Julian Assange, White Supremacists, The Electoral College, Jill Stein…and the list goes on and on.
Of course, as we recently noted, Obama has decided to focus his blame on Fox News and other “fake news” outlets.
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Jennifer Palmieri (Hillary’s Communications Director), on the other hand, has chosen to blame “white supremacists” for Hillary’s loss…yes, because the Midwest states of WI, MI, and PA that voted for Obama twice by huge margins (Obama won Michigan by 17 points in 2008!) suddenly became overrun with “white supremacists” who showed up in force on election day to hand the presidency to Trump.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Dec 4, 2016.

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ALEPPO UPDATES: REAL Syrians Saving Real Syrians

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The momentum has shifted in Aleppo this week as the Syrian Army begin to advance, steadily driving out Western and Gulf-backed terrorist fighters under the command of terrorist militants from Al Nusra Front – from their occupied enclaves in Eastern Aleppo. 21WIRE will post continuous ALEPPO UPDATES as we receive information…
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These are not images of ‘dusty boys’like the exploitative images of Omran Daqneesh. They are not recycled images of children being cynically deployed to promote a war that will kill more Syrian children. These are not fake images, emanating from the NATO & Gulf state multi million dollar-funded, fake first responders, the White Helmets, carrying out implausible ‘search and rescue’ procedures or filming themselves running aimlessly around the scene of another fakebombing.
This is not another French Foreign Office media production in East Aleppo, generated by the Aleppo Media Centre.

This post was published at 21st Century Wire on DECEMBER 3, 2016.

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Keiser Report: Neoliberalism Strikes Back (E1001)

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The following video was published by RT on Dec 3, 2016
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss neoliberalism ‘striking back’ as China gets to have a plan: one that involves buying up German high tech companies. In the second half, Max visits Piedmont Biofuels, a community-scale biodiesel project in Pittsboro, North Carolina, to talk to its president and co-founder, Lyle Estill.

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Thomas Frank : A Very Concise Explanation of Why The Democrats Lost , And Will Keep Losing

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“This whole ‘red scare’ thing has become so thoroughly ridiculous, so blatantly propagandist and overblown, so pervasively passed around by mainstream media outlets without serious investigation, so obviously picked up off a shelf in ad hoc convenience, and so completely hypocritical by the professional elite, that I am tempted to write it off and forget about it. But I should probably be deeply troubled for other reasons.
It is a sign of the establishment going further off the deep end, and further dropping its pretenses. It is a sign of a desperate elite that will say anything, do anything, and risk everything to control the narrative and protect itself.
We are descending into farce. Deeply dangerous farce.”
Reader M. M.
This is a short video from Thomas Frank below. I have included two more short videos that are optional.
Every pundit who is grinding their axes about the various forces that unjustly took the election from Hillary needs to listen to this.
Thomas Frank is absolutely right. Everyone who had their eyes open could see this loss by the Democrats coming, or at the least a much closer race than expected. Donald Trump certainly saw it, and used it for his advantage.

This post was published at Jesses Crossroads Cafe on 02 DECEMBER 2016.

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Trump: ‘Companies are not going to leave the United States anymore without consequences’

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‘Companies are not going to leave the United States anymore without consequences. Not going to happen. It’s not going to happen, I’ll tell you right now,’ Trump said on Thursday at a rally in Indiana as he boasted about the job’s he’d saved at Carrier, a company that purportedly planned to go to move 2,100 jobs to Mexico.
For several years, US citizens have been expatriating at a rapidly increasing rate. The IRS has raised the fee to expatriate 422% twice in recent years.
Donald Trump promised during the election to keep Carrier jobs in the US, and yesterday boasted about his technically unfinished deal to keep 1,100 Carrier jobs in Indiana.
Thanks to a recent speech (what some have termed the worst economic speech by a US politician in decades), we now have a clearer vision of how President-elect Trump plans to ‘Make America Great Again.’

This post was published at GoldSilverBitcoin on DECEMBER 2, 2016.

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