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The actor is performing an excerpt from Finkelstein’s new book. The scene is an ex-Diversity Trainer at a rally of striking Amazon workers. Voting will open after all entries are in over the next few days!
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The actor is performing an excerpt from Finkelstein’s new book. The scene is an ex-Diversity Trainer at a rally of striking Amazon workers. Voting will open after all entries are in over the next few days!
Entry #3: Gordon Tashjian
The actor is performing an excerpt from Finkelstein’s new book. The scene is an ex-Diversity Trainer at a rally of striking Amazon workers. Voting will open after all entries are in over the next few days!
Entry #2: Sean Murphy
The actor is performing an excerpt from Finkelstein’s new book. The scene is an ex-Diversity Trainer at a rally of striking Amazon workers. Voting will open after all entries are in over the next few days!
Entry #1: Helen Sutcliffe
Please visit the link below to view the episode. If you would like to skip to Norman’s part, it begins around 1:05:10.
The famous Chapter 6 of Mein Kampf is devoted to the art of propaganda. Watch the pathetic lickspittle in his hip sneakers nod at The Fuhrer’s every word. “You’re right. My mother is a dirty Jew. She should be gassed.” Nod. Nod. Nod.
1) Richard Stengel is the founder of the State Department's Global Engagement Center (GEC).
He describes his job as "chief propagandist."
"I'm not against propaganda. Every country does it, they have to do it to their own population, & I don't think it's that awful."@elonmusk pic.twitter.com/E7D9lXeixK
— kanekoa.substack.com (@KanekoaTheGreat) February 7, 2023
Full clip of Kim Johnson MP apologising "unreservedly" for her comments at #PMQs describing the Israeli government as "fascist" and calling it an "apartheid state".
I understand the apology follows a meeting with the Labour Chief Whip. pic.twitter.com/uSKd9SUrGe
— Ben Bloch (@realBenBloch) February 1, 2023
Holocaust Remembrance (21 January 2023)
Imagine the hysterical shrieks of outrage if, during one of Israel’s innumerable wars of aggression—mislabeled wars of “self-defense” or “necessity”[1]—Germany had supplied Israel’s enemy with tanks. The New York Times reports that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been pressured to supply Ukraine with tanks. So far Scholz has hesitated because
he does not believe the world is ready to see German tanks near the borders of Russia, a reminder of the Nazi invasion in World War II. One senior American official said this week that if Mr. Scholz and the German public are worried about that, in these circumstances “they are the only ones who are.” (20 January)
In other words, German concern about the bad optics is absurd. My parents passed through the Nazi holocaust. My most salient memory of growing up is my home suffused with what had befallen them: pictures of my Mother’s dead family hanging on the living room wall; my Mother reading about the Warsaw ghetto (both my parents were immured in the ghetto) in John Hershey’s The Wall and Leon Uris’s Mila-18; my Mother glued to the television screen during the Eichmann Trial. I’m 69. Vladimir Putin is 70. The Nazis wiped out some twenty-seven million Russians. The Wikipedia entry for Vladimir Putin reads in full under the heading “Early Life”:
Putin was born on 7 October 1952 in Leningrad, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia). The youngest of three children of Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin (1911–1999) and Maria Ivanovna Putina (née Shelomova; 1911–1998). His grandfather, Spiridon Putin (1879–1965), was a personal cook to Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin. Putin’s birth was preceded by the deaths of two brothers: Albert, born in the 1930s, died in infancy, and Viktor, born in 1940, died of diphtheria and starvation in 1942 during the Siege of Leningrad by Nazi Germany‘s forces in World War II.
Putin’s mother was a factory worker and his father was a conscript in the Soviet Navy, serving in the submarine fleet in the early 1930s. During the early stage of the Nazi German invasion of the Soviet Union, his father served in the destruction battalion of the NKVD. Later, he was transferred to the regular army and was severely wounded in 1942. Putin’s maternal grandmother was killed by the German occupiers of Tver region in 1941, and his maternal uncles disappeared on the Eastern Front during World War II.
It might be supposed that Putin’s childhood was not unlike my own: pervaded by somber memories of the murderous Nazi invasion. But the notion that, were Germany to supply tanks poised on Russia’s border, it might be unseemly, is of course too silly for words. One hopes and prays that, should Germany yet decide to provide the tanks, it will—again—get its just desserts.
[1] “They were all wars of choice or folly” (Israeli political scientist Zeev Maoz).
Video is timestamped, but if it starts from the beginning, you can skip to 29:00
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Please visit the link to view the video! Contains off-air discussion towards the end, which is missing from the full episode on YouTube.
https://archive.org/details/DemocracyNowNormanGFinkelstein
(start at 25:00)
